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U.S. News & World Report has ranked the USD School of Business master’s degree program in supply chain management as one of the top 25 online graduate business programs in the country.

Our master’s in supply chain management was ranked 23rd out of 148 programs. And the best news is that our program was ranked 4th in the area of student engagement: the list’s most heavily weighted component measured by student satisfaction and instructor’s responsiveness. This recognition is a confirmation of …Read Full Article

Congratulations to our USD team of undergraduate supply chain management students for taking top honors for the second year in a row at the Institute for Supply Management™’s (ISM) Services Group Conference in Phoenix. Jessica Dey, Adam Sitcoscy, and Austin Slakey competed last week against teams from many schools, including Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Rutgers University, and Western Michigan University.

The three students chosen to represent USD were selected through a rigorous competitive process open to all supply chain …Read Full Article

USD School of Business dean Dave Pyke's son assembling an IKEA bed

Hej! Skoven hopen malm…That’s me speaking some sort of Swedish after spending the past three days shopping at IKEA and putting together the furniture we purchased there.

Chances are many of you University of San Diego parents, students, and alumni have been doing this as well. August is IKEA’s busiest month in the U.S., what with customers who have dorm rooms and first apartments to furnish. In my case, …Read Full Article

With Terra, wearing our safety goggles, in front of a huge engine just after it was installed on the plane

I left (sunny) San Diego to go to (not sunny – in fact, rainy and cold) Seattle last week. This was a great trip for 1) potential jobs for our SBA students, and 2) a tour of the largest manufacturing plant in the world for the SBA dean. If they make a bumper sticker that says, “I’d rather be touring …Read Full Article