Rising in the Ranks
SOM’s evolving business education model garners greater national attention
Binghamton’s School of Management (SOM) has made a habit of powering past many more seasoned competitors. This year was no exception.
In 2022, the School once again improved its status as one of the best business schools in the nation, when Poets & Quants placed SOM in the Top 10 among public university business schools and 27th overall among all institutions. What’s more, SOM is #1 nationally for “providing a business degree worth its tuition cost” and second for the quality of its extracurricular opportunities.
SOM’s fast track to prominence owes much to a half century of smart, strategic decisions — the latest of which is both revolutionary and evolutionary. New degrees, programs, and curricula, and a fresh approach to pedagogy indicate SOM is not satisfied with waiting for the future. They are inventing it — and choosing to depart from the traditional business school model — to create a new paradigm reflecting the new economy and its emphasis on big data and analytics.
For example, the School’s newest graduate degree offering is an MS in Data Analytics. Under Manoj Agarwal’s leadership and designed with Harpur and Watson Colleges, it spans disciplines from math, applied statistics, and economics to computer science and industrial engineering. This transdisciplinary approach reflects an understanding that the data revolution is not limited to financial services; it is all-encompassing.
Most of all, SOM’s evolution and continued climb to national recognition benefits the talented students who deserve a place at the table — and one day in C-suites, board rooms, analytics labs and trading floors nationally and globally. As SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Subimal Chatterjee says, “It’s the relentless pursuit that we have, the hunger to be better. To be better researchers, to be better teachers. And it’s the journey of getting there that’s exciting.”
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