Financial Times Ranks Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA #1 in Canada & Among Top 20 in the World
TORONTO, ON – Wednesday, October 19, 2016 – The Financial Times of London has this week ranked the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA (EMBA) at York University the #1 EMBA program in Canada and 20th globally. Today’s Financial Times ranking marks the 10th straight year that the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program has been ranked #1 in Canada and it is the third consecutive global ranking released this week that has rated Schulich #1 in Canada (The Economist) or #1 in the world (Corporate Knights).
The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program was ranked 20th globally and placed 5th among programs based in North America (jointly with Duke) in this year’s Financial Times ranking. The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program finished ahead of the Kellogg School of Management, IMD and Columbia, and just behind London Business School, Wharton, Cambridge and Chicago. Among Canadian-based programs, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA placed ahead of the EMBA programs delivered by the Cornell-Queen’s EMBA, which ranked 47th; the Rotman School of Management, which ranked 53rd; the Ivey EMBA, which ranked 58th; and the Queen’s EMBA, which ranked 80th.
For complete details regarding the 2016 Financial Times EMBA ranking, please visit: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/executive-mba-ranking-2016.
Other Survey Highlights
- The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked #1 in Canada in the category of average salary three years following graduation and #1 in Canada in the category of salary increase. The average annual salaries earned by Kellogg-Schulich graduates were not only the highest in Canada but also among the highest in North America, surpassing the salaries earned by graduates at UCLA and close to the salaries earned by graduates at Cornell and Columbia.
The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA also ranked among the top 20 in the world in the following categories:
- 11th in the world in the “Career Progress” category, which measures the changes in the level of seniority and the size of the company alumni now work in versus before their EMBA degree;
- 13th in the world in the “Research” category, which measures the number of articles published by the faculty in leading academic and business practitioner journals; and
- 19th in the world in the “International Course Experience” category, which measures the percentage of classroom teaching hours that are conducted outside the country in which the business school is located.
The Kellogg global network of EMBA partner schools collectively performed very well in this year’s ranking, with the Kellogg-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) EMBA Program placing 1st overall, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA Program placing 20th, the Kellogg EMBA Program finishing 24th, and the Kellogg-WHU Beisheim EMBA Program based in Germany ranking 26th.
“We’re proud to have once again been rated the #1 EMBA program in Canada, among the top 5 in North America, and one of the top 20 in the world,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “Ever since the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program was established, it has been ranked number #1 in Canada by every single major global survey.”
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, in a global survey that identifies 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 #1 in Canada and among the world’s leading schools by The Economist, Forbes, CNN Expansión and América Economía. Schulich is also ranked among the world’s top 35 business schools for a career in investment banking in a global survey by eFinancialCareers.com. The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program is ranked #5 in the world by The Economist and #1 in Canada 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 campuses in Hyderabad, India and Beijing, China. 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 approximately 30,000 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, Master of Management and Master of Accounting degrees, the School launched one of the world’s first Master of Business Analytics and Master of Real Estate and Infrastructure degrees. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 12,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
Contact: Beth Marlin at (905) 717-6278 or bmarlin@schulich.yorku.ca