Rankings

• Top 22 percent in the nation for undergraduate programs — 2024 U.S. News & World Report.
• #12 Iowa State University ranking for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs —2024 Princeton Review.
• #4 in the Midwest for entrepreneurship — 2023 Princeton Review.
• #20 supply chain management program in the nation overall, 2022 U.S. News & World Report “Best College” undergraduate rankings.
• #32 entrepreneurship program in the nation overall, just launched in 2017, 2022 U.S. News & World Report “Best College” undergraduate rankings.
• #89 out of more than 700 schools in the nation — Poets & Quants, 2022 Top Business Schools for Undergrads.
• #21 Best Bachelor’s Degrees in Business, 2023 Best Accredited Colleges.

• #50 Best Graduate Schools, full-time MBA – 2024 U.S. News & World Report.
• #1 for affordability – 2019 WalletHub.
• #4 concurrent MBA in the nation, and #1 in Iowa – based on U.S. News & World Report standards.
• #25 MBA programs among public universities – 2024 U.S. News & World Report.
• Best Online Masters in Business (that is not an MBA), College Consensus.
• The 50 Best No-GMAT Online MBA Programs for 2024, College Consensus.

• #1 full-time MBA program in Iowa.
• #1 in Iowa for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs — 2024 Princeton Review.
• Best MBA Program in Des Moines six years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).
• Top 2 percent of business schools in the world to be accredited in both business and accounting by AACSB International.
• Top 10 percent full-time MBA — 2024 U.S. News & World Report.
• Record enrollment in the full-time MBA program, fall 2020.
• #1 institution producing the most impactful research — (2022, 2023) Journal of Business Logistics.

• The Ivy College of Business Department of Marketing has been ranked #41 worldwide and #35 among U.S. universities for research publications in premier American Marketing Association (AMA) journals in the last 10 years. — AMA Research Productivity Report.
• In 2024, the Ivy College of Business remained firmly positioned within the UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings, securing a rank of #92 overall in North America and #77 among United States universities.
• #2 in accounting information systems research — 2023 BYU accounting rankings.
• #3 in the world for supply chain management research productivity — 2024 Transportation Journal.
• #8 supply chain management program in the world for empirical research — 2023 Scmlist.com.
• “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors” — Tingting Liu, John and Connie Stafford Professor, named one of the best by Poets & Quants (2023).
• “World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors” — James Summers, Max S. Wortman, Jr. Professor, named one of the best by Poets & Quants (2020).

The Iowa State University Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, part of the Ivy College of Business, received top awards from some of the most prominent and long-standing organizations related to entrepreneurship. These are once-in-a-generation accomplishments:

• 2023 Entrepreneurial University of the Year for the Americas — Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial Engaged and Universities (ACEEU).
• Excellence in Entrepreneurship Across Disciplines/Highly Commended — 2023 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC).
• NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, 2022.
• Model University Accelerator Award — 2024 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).
• Model Program Award, the highest of the organization’s four prestigious annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Awards — 2021 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE).
• #12 in the country for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs — 2024 The Princeton Review (#11 in 2023, 2022, 2021).