
GREENSBORO – Dr. Vidyaranya Gargeya, a professor of information
systems and operations management at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s
Bryan School of Business and Economics has been named head of the MBA program there. He had
been serving as interim head of the program since 2006.
Gargeya joined the UNCG faculty in 1993. Since then, he has received numerous honors including the UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the Bryan School of Business and Economics Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Bryan School MBA Association Faculty Award. In 2006 he was nominated for the Professor of the Year Award sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Gargeya has also served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award.
Gargeya received his PhD in business administration from Georgia State University. His areas of expertise include supply chain management, global operations strategy and service operations management and enterprise-wide resource planning systems.
The Bryan School is the largest of UNCG’s six professional schools with 450 graduate students and 2,100 undergraduates. It is accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and is among the top 10 percent of business schools nationwide that have earned accreditation at the undergraduate and graduate levels in both business and accounting.
For more information, contact the Bryan School MBA program at (336) 334-5390, or visit http://www.uncg.edu/bae/.