Schulich’s MBA Graduates Rank 7th in the World in Career Progress

TORONTO, ON - Monday, January 24, 2005 - The Financial Times of London today ranked the Schulich School of Business at York University among the top 25 MBA programs in the world, while its graduates were ranked among the top ten in the world in terms of career progress.

Schulich ranked 22nd overall in the 2005 Financial Times global survey, neck and neck with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in 21st place, and ahead of the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, which ranked 34th.

Other survey highlights:

• Schulich ranked 7th in the world in the category of “Career Progress”, which measures the extent to which alumni have moved up the career ladder three years after graduating. 
• Schulich ranked 6th in the world and number one in North America in the “Value for Money” category, a Return on Investment (ROI) measurement that calculates the rate of return for each dollar spent by students between the start of the MBA to three years after graduation.

“We’re very pleased to have maintained a strong position globally in one of most rigorous and comprehensive MBA surveys in the world,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “Today’s ranking, together with the other major rankings of the past year, clearly position Schulich as one of Canada’s top schools, as well as one the top ten in the world outside of the US and one of the top 20 schools in North America.”

About Schulich
Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked 22nd in the world by both the Financial Times of London and the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business research and intelligence arm of The Economist magazine, in their annual rankings of the world’s top 100 MBA programs. Schulich is ranked 14th worldwide in The Wall Street Journal’s new Top International Schools ranking, and as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US by Forbes, the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Financial Times. It is also ranked among the top six schools in the world in the field of corporate social responsibility by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute.

Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich offers business programs year-round at two campuses — its new state-of-the-art complex on York University’s main campus and its downtown Miles S. Nadal Management Centre located in the heart of the city’s financial district. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. Schulich pioneered Canada’s first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as North America’s first ever cross-border executive MBA degree, the Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. The Schulich Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs to more than 10,000 executives in Canada and abroad.

 For more information, the media should contact:

Elayne Shapiro, External Relations & Alumni Affairs, Schulich School of Business (416) 736-5546 or
George McNeillie, York University Media Relations, 416-736-2100 x22091 / gmcneil@yorku.ca