Schulich School of Business rated #1 in Canada ... and #23 in world's "Best Global MBAs" ranking

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TORONTO, May 12, 2008 -- The Schulich School of Business at York University was today ranked number one in Canada and 23rd in the world in a global MBA ranking conducted by Expansión magazine, a Time Warner business publication based in Mexico.

 

Schulich was one of only two Canadian business schools to make the Expansión ranking (the Rotman School of Management ranked 29th). Schulich ranked 9th among business schools outside the US and 15th among North American business schools. Schulich placed just behind Duke, UCLA and HEC Paris, and just ahead of Darden and Kenan-Flagler at the University of North Carolina. Stanford was ranked number one overall, Harvard placed 2nd, and Wharton and London Business School were jointly ranked 3rd. The Kellogg School of Management, Schulich’s partner school in the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program, was ranked 11th in the world.

 

The Expansión “Best Global MBAs” ranking, established in 2006, rates leading MBA programs from around the world using a broad range of criteria, including Academic Quality, Return on Investment and Global Value. The survey employs a predominantly statistical-based methodology to rank business schools, with points awarded in key areas of measurement such as average GMAT, research output, post-graduation average salary and international scope and orientation.

 

“We are extremely pleased to have been ranked among the top 25 schools in the world and number one in Canada,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth, who noted that four other major global rankings – Forbes, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and the Aspen Institutehave all ranked Schulich as the top MBA program in Canada during the past academic year. “The Expansión ranking will help raise our School’s profile in Mexico, where we not only recruit MBA students but also place our graduates.”

 

Schulich plans to establish a Mexico Satellite Centre in Mexico City and a Brazil Satellite Centre in São Paulo during the next year, adding to the School’s existing global network of Satellite Centres in Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Mumbai and Moscow. Schulich’s Satellite Centres recruit students, provide career placement services to its graduates, offer executive education training, support the School’s nearby alumni chapters and handle local media relations. The Satellite Centres form a key part of the School’s transnational approach to delivering management education.

 

About Schulich

Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked among the world’s leading business schools by a number of global surveys. Schulich’s MBA program is ranked #1 in Canada by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist (EIU), Expansión (a Time Warner publication) and the Aspen Institute (a US-based business think tank), and its EMBA program is ranked #1 in Canada by the Financial Times of London. Schulich is also ranked as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US by BusinessWeek. For complete ranking details, please visit www.schulich.yorku.ca.

 

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 Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.

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For more information, please contact:

Elayne Shapiro  
Schulich School of Business
York University
416-736-5546