In new ranking from U.S. News & World Report, the management department at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University has moved up in its national placement. This year, the undergraduate program in management is ranked number 10 in the nation overall and 7th among public schools. This is an improvement from last year, when the program was ranked 13th overall and 9th public.

Mays Business School as a whole has also seen improvement in the rankings, as it has tied for 30th overall and 18th public in the best undergraduate business program category for 2009. Last year the school was ranked 31st overall and 19th public.

U.S. News & World Report arrived at these rankings by surveying deans and senior faculty in spring 2008 at undergraduate business programs accredited by the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

Mays Business School currently enrolls more than 4,000 undergraduate students and 875 graduate students. Mays is nationally ranked among public business schools not only for the quality of its undergraduate program, but also its MBA program and the faculty scholarship of its 105 professors in five departments.