The International MBA (IMBA) program at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, is the nation's top-ranked public university MBA program for international business and No. 2 among all institutions in that specialty, according to U.S. News & World Report.

This marks the 19th consecutive year that Moore's IMBA program has been ranked either No. 1 or No. 2, outpacing the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross), Duke (Fuqua), Columbia University, Harvard, New York University, the University of Southern California (Marshall), and the University of California-Berkeley (Haas). Thunderbird School of Global Management (Garvin) of Arizona led the rankings.

The ranking appears in the 2008 issue of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools," available on newsstands March 31.

"Owing to important and sustained investments in world-class faculty and unique programming over several decades, the Moore School continues at the cutting edge of international business education," said Dr. Hildy Teegen, dean of the Moore School of Business.  "We are very pleased to play a leading role in preparing future managers for the complexities and vast opportunities presented by doing business around the world, and are grateful for this important recognition for our commitment to global business."

After Thunderbird and USC, Wharton came in third.  The University of Michigan was fourth, Duke was fifth, Columbia University ranked sixth, Harvard and NYU tied for seventh, the University of Southern California was ninth, and UC-Berkeley was tenth.

To calculate the specialty rankings—such as international business—magazine researchers asked for expert opinion from business school deans and MBA program heads about program quality.

In August 2007, the Moore School was ranked No. 1 in undergraduate international business for the 11th year by U.S. New & World Report in its annual survey, "America's Best Colleges Guide."