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UMSL's MIS Faculty Ranked Third in Nation for Productivity
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published the 2007 Top Research Universities Faculty Scholalry Productivity Index, which compiles overall institutional rankings on 375 universities that offer Ph.D. degrees.
UMSL's eight Management Information Systems faculty were as third in MIS behind the University of Arizona and the University of Georgia. Finishing off the top nine in the MIS category were Virginai Tech, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Michigan State University, Temple University, the Ohio State University, and Mississippi State University.
UM-St. Louis' sister campuses ranked as follows in other categories:
University of Missouri-Columbia
- 1st -- Nuclear Engineering
- 3rd -- Nursing
- 4th -- Theatre Literature, History and Criticism
- 5th -- Animal Sciences
- 6th -- Educational psychology*
- 7th -- Agriculture, various
- 9th -- Accounting
- 9th -- Educational psychology*
University of Missouri-Kansas City
- 5th -- Computer and Information Sciences, various
- 6th -- Oral Biology and Craniofacial Science
University of Missouri-Rolla
- 5th -- Materials Engineering
- 8th -- Geological and Mining Engineering*
- 10th -- Geological and Mining Engineering*
*An institution may appear more than once if the discipline is related to more than one department.
How the Index Works:
The index examines faculty members who are listed on a Ph.D. program's Web sites. The total number of actual faculty members rated by the index is 164,843.
The productivity of each faculty member is measured, although the data are aggregated before being published. Faculty members can be judged on as many as five factors, depending on the most important variables in the given discipline: books published; journal publications; citations of journal articles; federal-grant dollars awarded; and honors and awards.
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