When hearing that you’re an introvert, my first recommendation is to look for schools that have more intensive forms of orientation. Perhaps students take a class on-campus before the regular semester starts, or students go camping or do a community service project together. Anything that will get you into a more extended amount of time besides an afternoon or a day of orientation so that you can get to know people and start building a social network. When there’s an activity in place (i.e. hiking/volunteering/taking a class) it also makes it easier to start conversations, because you’re actually doing something together.
One program I know of is the Intensive First-Year Seminars program at Indiana University which has a very well-reputed business school (Kelley).
I don’t know what the first year experiences that are so notable at these schools, but they were nominated by college administrators for their programs, so there might be some worth investigating here:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/first-year-experience-programs
Additionally, see if there are special cohorts that interest you. For instance, many colleges have living learning communities where students will take a certain number of classes together and live in the same dorm. Alternatively, there might be some thematic commonality between students and activities that are organized around that, even if they’re not taking classes together (perhaps an interest in the outdoors, or volunteering, etc).
So finding schools that have special orientation opportunities, living learning communities, and other ways to get to know people more easily would be my suggestion for someone who views themselves as introverted.
Below are some additional schools that you may want to take a look at in terms of their supply chain management programs:
- Bowling Green State (OH): About 14k undergrads
- Grand Valley State (MI): About 19k undergrads
- Iowa State: About 25k undergrads
- John Carroll (OH): About 2400 undergrads
- Marquette (WI): About 7500 undergrads
- Texas Christian: About 11k undergrads
- U. of Arkansas: About 26k undergrads
- U. of Tennessee: About 27k undergrads
- Western Michigan: About 14k undergrads