The U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best graduate schools 2007" has rated the University of Arkansas' supply chain management and logistics specialty at 19th among the public and private schools offering such specialties.

"We are very pleased to be included in the U.S. News & World Report's rankings of graduate supply chain management/logistics programs," said Tom Jensen, Wal-Mart Lecturer in Retailing and chair of the department of marketing and logistics in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. "It is a great honor and recognition for our faculty, students, and staff. Our academic programs have grown in both quantity and quality over the past few years. We are especially pleased that universities ranked in the top ten, for example, Michigan State University or University of Tennessee, have been recruiting our doctoral students to be faculty and teach supply chain management/logistics at their institutions."

Jim Crowell, managing director of the Walton College Supply Chain Management Research Center, said: "We are very excited about being included again in this U.S. News graduate ranking, and the role the center has played in achieving that ranking. The research center connects us with transportation and logistics organizations in some of the nation's largest corporations. Its board of directors is comprised of 41 key logistics executives from 23 national and international companies. This support enables us to greatly enhance the quality of our undergraduate and graduate programs in transportation and logistics."

U.S. News ranked the Walton College 11th place among the public graduate business schools who offer the supply chain specialty.