TORONTO, September 18, 2007 -- The Wall Street Journal today ranked the Schulich School of Business at York University number one in Canada and among the world’s top 15 international business schools in its annual global survey of corporate recruiters.
Schulich was ranked 11th in the world, its highest ever ranking in the “Top International Schools” survey. Two other Canadian schools – the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto – also made the “Top International Schools” ranking.
Schulich ranked ahead of Chicago, INSEAD, Wharton, Harvard and Stanford in the international schools ranking and finished 6th among North American business schools. Corporate recruiters said they were most impressed with Schulich’s “diversity and global perspective” and praised the School’s MBA students as being “well-rounded” and “team players” with “strong technical and people skills.”
The Wall Street Journal also ranked Schulich among the top ten schools in the world in the field of financial services. Schulich placed 8th overall in the Journal’s Top 10 “Ranking By Industry”, a listing that also included a number of schools with strong reputations in finance, including Columbia, Chicago, Yale and MIT. In addition, Schulich was ranked as one of the top ten schools in terms of total number of graduates hired by recruiters at several of the largest global firms participating in the survey.
The Wall Street Journal describes its “Top International Schools” survey as a ranking of schools that have global reach in their job-placement activities. More than 4,400 recruiters from around the world were asked to assess various attributes of the school and its students, including student leadership, teamwork, interpersonal and analytical skills, and “supportive behaviour” – the likelihood that a recruiter will continue recruiting from a school and make a job offer to its students within the next two years.
“We’re pleased to have once again been ranked among a select group of globally oriented business schools,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “And we’re proud to have attained our highest ever ranking in a survey that measures the value of a business school’s graduates in a truly global context.”
About Schulich
Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked number one in Canada by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist (EIU) and the World Resources and Aspen Institutes, and is ranked as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US by BusinessWeek, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. Schulich is ranked 11th in the world in The Wall Street Journal’s “Top International Schools” ranking; 9th in BusinessWeek’s top international schools ranking; 4th in the world among non-US, two-year MBA programs in the Forbes ranking; 22nd in the world in the “Best Global MBAs” ranking conducted by Expansion magazine, a Time-Warner publication based in Mexico; 30th in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business research and intelligence arm of The Economist magazine; and 49th in the world by the Financial Times of London (30th in the world in the three-year average category). Schulich is also ranked 3rd in the world in the field of corporate social responsibility in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking conducted by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute.
Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich offers business programs year-round at two Toronto 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. The School also operates satellite centres in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Moscow, Russia. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has over 20,000 alumni working in more than 80 countries. 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 (SEEC) provides executive development programs annually to 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
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