BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the third straight year, Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is among the top 10 business schools worldwide in terms of productivity and impact, according to the leading measure of published research contributions.
The Kelley School was ranked ninth in the University of Texas at Dallas’ rankings of top research schools in North America, and second among public institutions. The school also was ranked 10th worldwide.
The annual ranking is based on research contributions by a school’s faculty over a five-year period. With 257 total articles published by the school’s faculty based at IU Bloomington between 2020 to 2024, Kelley’s faculty research output was second-most in the Big Ten.
Over the last half decade, the Kelley School has climbed UT-Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings of schools worldwide — rising from 26th in the 2019 ranking to where it is ranked today.
No other business school in Indiana is ranked in the top 25.
Dean Patrick Hopkins
“One of our missions as a school is to produce a better understanding of the problems organizations face today — and beyond,” said Pat Hopkins, dean of the Kelley School and Conrad Prebys Professor.
“It is widely known that Kelley’s programs consistently are among the best, and as these rankings demonstrate, it is clear that Kelley is a place where faculty engage in cutting-edge research that provides students with advanced insights and empowers businesses to adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world.”
Research output also has grown. Six years ago, Kelley faculty had published just 159 papers between 2014 and 2018 – nearly 100 less than in the last four years. The top 100 universities collectively contributed more than 6,000 research papers from 2020 to 2024, nearly doubling the output since the rankings began.
Kelley is home to 15 research institutes, centers and labs at IU Bloomington and IU Indianapolis, including the Center for the Business of Life Sciences, the Institute for Corporate Governance & Ethics, the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Data Science and AI Lab and the Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability.
These intellectual hubs build momentum for change across important local, national, and global avenues, and are fostered through cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research and collaborations among faculty, students, and businesses.
Rebecca Slotegraaf
The Naveen Jindal School of Management at the UT-Dallas rankings are believed to be the most comprehensive and objective measure of research activity at business schools. It has tracked the publications of business school faculty worldwide since 1990 in 24 leading academic journals, all of which are peer-reviewed. It then ranks the schools based on the number of articles published in those journals by their faculty members over a five-year period.
The UT-Dallas ranking is designed to be useful to both business school administrators and faculty members in measuring their research activities in the journals included in the study. They see their rankings as another tool for business school faculty members and administrators to use in bench-marking themselves against their peers.
“These rankings underscore the research impact and thought leadership of our faculty, who are driven to create knowledge that generates new insights for both our students and decision-makers striving to remain competitive,” said Rebecca Slotegraaf, the Kelley School’s associate dean for research and a professor of marketing.