Gartner ranks WWU's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management Program 13th in the country

July 22, 2024

Bellingham, WA -Gartner, Inc. has released the findings from its biennial Top 25 North American Supply Chain Undergraduate and Graduate Programs report, and WWU's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management program moved up five spots nationally, from 18th to the 13th, since last year among undergraduate programs.

Peter Haug, Program Director of WWU's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management degree, said, "It's humbling and exciting to see our program ranked so highly and alongside much larger supply chain management programs at flagship universities around the country. This is a testament to the dedication of our excellent MSCM faculty, staff, and students, the talents of our graduates, the breath of our MSCM curriculum, and the extensive network of industry executives that we have built over 30 years in the supply chain management field. We would like to thank Gartner for their high-quality ranking analysis and recognition of our MSCM degree in their 2024 Supply Chain University Top 25 Undergraduate Programs."

Fifty-two institutions in the U.S. and Canada participated in the undergraduate survey and 47 participated in the graduate survey.

The report is intended to support chief supply chain officers (CSCOs), heads of supply chain strategy and supply chain HR partners to identify the programs best equipped to support their growing talent needs.

"Looking at curriculum across undergraduate and graduate programs, we've seen growing interest in supply chain analytics, however, a decline in manufacturing focus," said Dana Stiffler, distinguished VP analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain practice. "This is especially noticeable in supply chain M.B.A. degrees, with less than 50% of programs having significant manufacturing content, compared to 76% of programs two cycles ago in 2020."