TORONTO, ON – Wednesday, September 10, 2014 –A new global survey by eFinancialCareers.com has ranked the MBA program at York University’s Schulich School of Business among the top 30 in the world for landing a career in investment banking.
In the ranking of the world’s best business schools for “breaking into investment banking”, Schulich placed 30th overall. New York-based Columbia Business School ranked 1st overall, with Wharton placing second and Yale third. Other top-rated business schools that were also ranked include Harvard, which placed 5th overall, and Kellogg, Schulich’s Executive MBA partner school, which placed 13th.
Schulich was the only Canadian business school to make the ranking. According to the ranking results, nearly 50 percent of Schulich MBA graduates within the eFinancialCareers database are employed at “Tier One” investment banks, a select group that includes Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley.
In conducting the ranking, eFinancialCareers.com analyzed data contained within 1.2 million professional résumés in its global database. The ranking looked at the number of MBA graduates around the world who have gone on to work in a “front office” investment banking role following graduation, as well as the percentage of graduates working in Tier One, Tier Two and Tier Three banks globally. For complete ranking results, please go to: http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/114666/the-top-35-business-schools-for-breaking-into-investm.
A division of Dice Holdings Inc., eFinancialCareers operates in 19 markets across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific and bills itself as the world’s leading financial services careers website.
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 the world by Corporate Knights, the world’s largest circulation magazine with an explicit focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, and #2 in the world by the Aspen Institute (a Washington, DC-based leadership think tank) in global surveys that identify which schools are doing the best job of preparing future business leaders for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business. Schulich’s MBA program is also ranked among the world’s leading schools by The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek and Expansión, the leading business publication in Mexico. The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program is ranked #1 in the world by The Economist, #5 in the world by The Wall Street Journal (as part of the Kellogg global network of EMBA partner schools) and #1 in Canada and 26th in the world by the Financial Times of London. For complete ranking details, please visit www.schulich.yorku.ca.
Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich offers business programs year-round at its state-of-the-art complex at York University; at its Miles S. Nadal Management Centre located in the heart of the Toronto’s financial district; and at its new campus in Hyderabad, India. Schulich also operates a number of satellite centres in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; Mexico City, Mexico and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to rewarding careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has 27,000 alumni working in over 90 countries. The School 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. In addition to Schulich’s Master of Finance and Master of Accounting degrees, the School recently launched one of the world’s first Master of Business Analytics degrees. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 10,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
Contact:
Elayne Shapiro
Marketing and Communications Co-ordinator
Phone: (416) 736-5546
Email: eshapiro@schulich.yorku.ca
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