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Issue: 887 Date: 8/23/2007
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UMSL's International Business Program received
local honor for U.S. News & World Report ranking
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| Missouri Reps. Clint Zweifel and Esther Haywood presented Keith Womer, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, with a resolution Thursday honoring the college's International Business Program. |
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The International Business Program achieved its highest ranking this year in U.S. News & World Report's list of the best undergraduate international business programs. The eighth place ranking marks the fourth consecutive year in which the program has been listed in the magazine's top 20.UMSL's International Business Program began in 1999 as a collaboration between the College of Business Administration and Pierre Laclede Honors College at UMSL.
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."
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.
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