University of Florida/Texas A&M Rankings
Around 2006, Brad Kirkman at Texas A&M University partnered with Tim Judge to expand the rankings to include all North American universities with at least one publication in any of the eight top-tier journals. The rankings were then re-branded the University of Florida/Texas A&M Rankings.
Texas A&M Rankings
Around 2011, Tim Judge transitioned to the University of Notre Dame and Brad Kirkman moved to North Carolina State University. For the next three years, the rankings were compiled by Brad Kirkman and Jason Colquitt, who had moved to the University of Georgia. The rankings became known simply as the Texas A&M Rankings during this time period. The rankings were taken over by Cindy Zapata in 2014, as she transitioned to Texas A&M from Georgia Tech.
TAMUGA Rankings
The current iteration of the rankings represents a collaboration between the University of Georgia and Texas A&M. This iteration was originally launched by Jason Colquitt and Cindy Zapata and is now handled jointly by faculty between the two schools. Historically, the TAMUGA Rankings focus on U.S. departments of Management and allow for filtering and sorting by public vs. private, region, and faculty size. As in all previous iterations, rankings are available for a given calendar year or as a five-year total.
Global Rankings
In 2022 we partnered with another school to develop a global ranking. This partner was unable to continue with the project the following year so it was discontinued.
New for 2025 – Journal of Management & Management Science
These rankings have existed in one form or another for more than two-decades. In that time, the journal list has remained constant while the field has grown substantially. While any given school may focus on an idiosyncratic subset of journals for their own purposes, two additional journals — Journal of Management & Management Science — have gained significant visibility among scholars owing to the wide range of topics each journal solicits and publishes, and the general reputation, editorial quality, and impression held by the field of these outlets. For this reason, the decision was made to index these journals along with the original eight.
This decision was based solely on the factors noted above, and does not signal any change in the policy of the schools responsible for producing the list, nor is this change intended to influence the policy of any school that relies on this list. Indeed, this is why the website now allows selection of the original eight, all ten, or a subset of journals. This allows anyone to customize the rankings for their own purposes.
The production of this list each year is intended as a service to the field and not as an instrument of policy for the personnel decisions made by any given university.
Contact Us
Inquiries about these rankings can be addressed to: