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The International Business Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis achieved its highest ranking in U.S. News && World Report's list of best undergraduate international business programs.The eighth place ranking for 2007 marks the fourth consecutive year in which the program has been listed in the magazine's top 20. The rankings were released today.Allan Bird, director of the International Business Program at UMSL, said it's an honor for the young program to receive the ongoing recognition."We've seen a good amount of growth in the program over the last several years," Bird said. "Through our efforts, the program's reputation continues to soar throughout the community, and this ranking is valuation of those efforts."UMSL's College of Business Administration strives to enrich and improve its offerings each year, said Keith Womer, the college's dean."This year the college has hired eight new faculty members, who were attracted to the university in part because of the program's continuous ranking," Womer said. "As part of our ongoing mission, we are constantly looking at ways to improve upon the program."UMSL's International Business Program began in 1999 as a collaboration between the College of Business Administration and Pierre Laclede Honors College at UMSL.Program highlights include:* More than 70 study-abroad programs are available in more than 40 countries. In addition, the program has a large contingent of students from China, Japan, Europe, Latin America and India.* Annual study tours have led student groups to locales around the world.* American students have interned at the overseas offices of companies such as Japan Airlines, Emerson Electric and General Motors.* Foreign students have interned in the St. Louis area at companies like Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. and Monsanto Co.As a component of the top-ranking program, UMSL launched the International Master's of Business Administration program last year, and this week 25 international students arrived on campus to begin their second year of the program.The MBA program created partnerships with international universities and gives students enrolled in the two-year graduate program the opportunity to spend their first two semesters studying abroad. They spend the following summer interning in the same country, and then return to UMSL in the fall for a year.To learn more about the International Business Program at UMSL, visit the College of Business Administration's Web site at www.umsl.edu/divisions/business. |
