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U.S. News & World Report
The International MBA program has once again been ranked #2 in the international business specialty by U.S. News & World Report in its reputational survey of "America's Best Graduate Schools 2010" released April 23, 2009. University of South Carolina is the top-ranked public university in the international business specialty, ahead of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross), Columbia University, Duke University (Fuqua), New York University (Stern),  Harvard Business School, and the University of Southern California  (Marshall) and the University of California-Berkeley (Haas). USC has ranked 1st or 2nd for 20 consecutive years. More. 

The Moore School is ranked #1 in undergraduate international business education by U.S. News & World Report in its August 2008 annual survey "America’s Best Colleges Guide" — the 12th year the school has received this distinction.  Moore’s undergraduate international business program leads the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of Southern California-Berkeley, and the University of Texas-Austin.  More 

The Princeton Review
According to The Princeton Review's Best 296 Business Schools: 2009 Edition, the operations management education at the Moore School is among the top 15 of all U.S. graduate business schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.  More 

Financial Times
On January 26, 2009, the Darla Moore School of Business was ranked No. 2 among the world's top 100 business schools in the category of "International Experience," and moved into the top 50 in scholarly research, according to the latest Financial Times of London rankings of business schools with full-time MBA programs.     More 

The Wall Street Journal  
Moore School of Business is ranked 49th among the top B-schools in The Wall Street Journal's "Regional Ranking" as part of their "Best Business Schools" issue Sept. 17, 2007. This ranking is based on a survey of corporate recruiters. More.

A ranking published by the Wall Street Journal Europe listed USC's International MBA among the top 15 MBA programs offered in Europe.

Entrepreneur
The Moore School’s entrepreneurship program has been ranked as one of the Top 100 programs in the country in 2006 by TechKnowledge Point Corporation. More.

Latin Trade
October 2007:  The Moore School of Business is one of 45 business schools worldwide rated highly for its MBA program by the readers of Latin Trade magazine. The rating is the result of an online survey of the magazine's readers published in the October 2007 issue. More

The Economist
The International MBA program at the Moore School is ranked #83 among the world's top MBA programs in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2009 MBA Rankings. Through its annual publication "Which MBA?", the Economist Intelligence Unit surveys MBA students and alumni worldwide on their qualitative assessment of MBA programs. More 

Forbes
Forbes magazine has ranked the Moore School 54th in its biennial survey of best business schools, and 25th among public schools. The 2007 ranking is based on a survey of MBA (class of  2002) graduates around the world, comparing pre-MBA salaries, costs of attending (including tuition and foregone salary), and salaries during the five-year period after graduation. Moore graduates realized a pay-off for their investment after 4.5 years on average. More 

BusinessWeek 
February 2009: BusinessWeek ranked the Moore School 86th out of 101 schools in its 2009 Best Undergraduate Business School Ranking, published on February 26. The Moore School moved up nine places from 2008, when it ranked 95th out of 96 schools. 

According to BusinessWeek, the single most important factor influencing this year’s results was the economy and devastated job market. This is BusinessWeek’s fourth annual ranking of undergraduate business programs, which is based on nine measures of student satisfaction, post-graduation employment, and academic quality. More

October 2006: Moore ranked 3rd among schools for "fastest return" on an MBA students education investment, ahead of Notre Dame and Emory.  In the overall ranking of MBA programs, BusinessWeek included Moore among its top 70 programs considered.

QS TopMBA.com
Moore School of Business rated in the top 20 schools in QS Recruiter's 2008 Survey of U.S. and Canadian business schools favored by recruiters. More 

Faculty

Journal of International Business Studies
The University of South Carolina's international business faculty has been rated #1 in research productivity by the Journal of International Business Studies. 

International Business Review
Moore School faculty are ranked No. 1 of the top 50 U.S. universities and No. 2 of the top 50 universities worldwide in terms of the total number of research articles published.  More. 

In a study of American business schools by professors from the University of Georgia, University of Illinois, and Southern Methodist University, the Moore School ranked 30th nationally in terms of research productivity. USC ranked 2nd in insurance, international business, and real estate; 3rd in production and operations management; 12th in management information systems; 21st in marketing; and 26th in management.