The result of a survey done by Stephen M. Rutner of Georgia Southern University and Stanley E. Fawcett of Brigham Young University showed that Penn State Smeal College of Business has the most successful supply chain program in the north america.

Rutner and Fawcett asked more than 1,000 supply chain and logistics professionals and 175 college and university educators to rank the top 20 programs in North America.

Gene Tyworth, chair of Smeal's supply chain and information systems department, says "This achievement is especially gratifying for our faculty and staff because it ratifies the 2002 decision to merge our business logistics program with our management science and information systems program. We created a unique new program that not only combines logistics, operations, and information systems, but respects interdisciplinary research methods."

Rutner and Fawcett announced their findings in an article entitled "The State of Supply Chain Education" in the September 2005 issue of Supply Chain Management Review.