The University of Tennessee’s undergraduate supply-chain management and logistics program ranked no. 6 in U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges list for 2007.

The program was ranked No. 7 for 2006. In the 2007 edition, the program is ranked sixth among public institutions; among all national universities, it gained two spots to No. 8. College officials report that it now ranks on par with the business programs of Penn State and Carnegie Mellon University, and above Purdue University, Indiana University and the University of Michigan.

“We are extremely pleased with our move up in the rankings, and we expect the upward trend to continue,” says Jan Williams, dean of the College of Business Administration. “Our performance reflects our innovative, integrated curriculum: faculty expertise, leadership team and increased student quality. Our focus on the everyday challenges relating to supply-chain issues, demand-management issues, lean operations issues, and the use of technology enhances our ability to be one of the nation’s best-ranked schools and certainly a powerhouse in the supply chain/logistics area.”

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