Schulich School of Business Wins National MBA Games For Second Straight Year

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TORONTO, January 6, 2004 -- The Schulich School of Business at York University won the 16th annual national MBA Games this weekend, becoming one of only a few schools to ever win the coveted Queen's Cup two years in a row.

More than 500 MBA students representing 18 business schools from across Canada took part in the 2004 MBA Games, a three-day event consisting of team competitions in the categories of academics, athletics and school spirit. Schulich won the right to host the 2004 national competition after winning last year's MBA Games, held at McMaster University.

In capturing the Queen's Cup, the Schulich team placed first in the Case Competition and first overall in the Academic category. Team Captain Vito Cammisa led the Schulich MBA team. Members of the first-place Schulich Case Competition Team included Danny Wong, Andrew Davis, Stephen Marcotte and
John Romero.

The MBA Games is the largest annual gathering of MBAs from across Canada.

For more information about the Games and results, please click on one of the following URLs:

http://mbagames.schulich.yorku.ca/mbagames/mbagames.nsf/home.html

http://mbagames.schulich.yorku.ca/mbagames/mbagames.nsf/events_results.html

About Schulich
Known as Canada's Global Business School?, the Schulich School of Business is ranked among the best business schools in the world. Schulich is ranked 22nd in the world (1st in Canada and 5th outside of the US) by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a division of The Economist magazine, and 26th in the world (7th outside of the US) by the Financial Times of London. Both Forbes and BusinessWeek also rank Schulich as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US.

Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich is Canada's largest school of graduate management education. It offers business degrees at the undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and executive education levels.
These include Canada's first International MBA (IMBA), as well as North America's first ever cross-border Executive MBA degree, the Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA.

For more information, please contact Sean Siddik at (416) 736-5844.