The Naveen Jindal School of Management moved to No. 3 in 2021 rankings of the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™, released March 23.

With 242 articles contributed by faculty members during the most recent five-year period — 2016 to 2020 — used to arrive at rankings, the Jindal School placed at No. 3 in both Worldwide and North American rankings. JSOM stepped up from No. 4 in both sets of rankings the previous two years.

Only the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Leonard N. Stern School at New York University tallied higher 2021 article totals. The Wharton School, perennially No. 1 every year since the rankings were first published 17 years ago, maintained its lead with a total of 353 scholarly articles published. Stern, with 273 articles, placed second.

Published annually since 2005 by the Jindal School, the rankings track the productivity of management- and business-school research faculty as reflected in 24 leading peer-re- viewed academic journals covering major management and business disciplines.

Jindal School Vice Dean Varghese Jacob, who along with Dean Hasan Pirkul created the UTD Top 100 database and continues to maintain it, said, “Research is just as much an integral part of the school as teaching and is necessary for ensuring our classes are current and relevant. Our rise in various degree program rankings is a testament to that.”

“The UTD Top 100 numbers validate our efforts to always encourage and grow research as one of the foundations of the Jindal School,” Pirkul said. “Scholarly efforts to ask, investigate, analyze and move forward also inform our academics — and just about everything we do.”

See Jindal School Moves Into Top 40 U.S. in Financial Times Rankings for more on JSOM research rankings. Learn more at the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™ website.