School of Hospitality and Tourism Management among best in U.S.
Monday, November 11, 2024
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The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Oklahoma State University has a long history of success, and the program recently earned a landmark milestone as a top-10 program in the United States.
The school, housed in the Spears School of Business, is ranked eighth in the United States (up from No. 11 a year ago) and comes in at 22nd in the world (the same ranking as last year) in the 2024 edition of ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
“The program is committed to the tradition of excellence and continues to be one of the premier academic units in the world,” said Dr. Brij Thapa, professor and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Distinguished Chair who serves as the head of HTM. “Integrating high-quality publications and/or compelling practical insights, faculty are focused on identifying solutions to persistent challenges and expanding the knowledge base for industry, governments, communities and academia. The school intends to prioritize the land-grant mission to foster public impact research and become a key voice advocating for positive change within and beyond the state.”
The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management is the highest-ranked program at OSU in the global rankings. Other best-ranked subjects are sociology, which placed in the top 75, and civil engineering and veterinary medicine, both ranked in the top 150. Additionally, management placed in the top 200 globally, while physics, agricultural sciences and political sciences placed in the top 300.
The Chinese-based organization has been publishing the list since 2009, along with an academic ranking of the world’s universities. Its initial purpose was to see how Chinese universities ranked against the world’s best, but the list has become a measuring stick for many universities and programs around the globe.
The 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are listed in the rankings.
The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, including world-class faculty, world-class output, high-quality research, research impact and international collaboration.
To learn more about the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, one of the nation’s oldest programs founded in 1937, click here.