The Naveen Jindal School of Management moved forward substantially this fall in new rankings from U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.

The U.S. News rankings of undergraduate business programs saw the school vault forward 26 places from last year, from No. 67 to No. 41 overall.

In the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools MBA rankings, positive feedback from alumni and employers that have recruited them propelled the school forward four places to No. 32 among U.S. universities.

Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Caruth Chair and Jindal School dean, said he was delighted to see improvement in the overall U.S. News business ranking and its component rankings. With the rankings based on opinions of undergraduate program directors and deans, “it is not sufficient to simply have an excellent program — this excellence has to be understood and accepted by our peers at other institutions,” he said. With recognition from colleagues throughout the U.S. of student, staff and program quality, Pirkul added, “our rankings, will only continue to improve in coming years.”

In U.S. News rankings of specific undergraduate programs, the Jindal School placed at 16th for best undergraduate production/operations management programs and 18th for its supply chain management program. The management information systems program ranked 19th among its peer programs.

In the Bloomberg Businessweek MBA standings, the Jindal School placed at No. 11 among public university programs in the rankings, which are updated biennially and rely on student, alumni and recruiter assessments.

The Jindal School also fared well in two of five component categories — referred to as indexes — of the rankings, which were released Sept. 15. The school came in at No. 1 in learning and No. 4 in networking.

By MBA industry standards, the Jindal School runs a small full-time program, said Dr. Monica Powell, JSOM senior associate dean.

“But when you’re small, you can meet the needs of every individual student. It is clear from the results that we’ve done that exceptionally well,” Powell said.

For the networking index, Bloomberg Businessweek studied classmate-to-classmate connections, student and alumni engagements, alumni-to-alumni collaboration, career center achievements and the school’s brand power, from recruiters’ viewpoints.

Lisa Shatz, Jindal School assistant dean of the MBA programs, said: “To be No. 4 in networking is amazing for any school, but when you take into consideration that we are a young school and, therefore, have a smaller number of alumni, it makes it even more noteworthy.”

In other indexes, JSOM ranked 16th in entrepreneurship. It ranked 45th in compensation and 52nd in diversity, a new component category.

Read about the undergraduate rankings and the graduate rankings.