Financial Times Ranks Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA #1 in Canada & Among Top 30 in the World
TORONTO, ON – Monday, October 16, 2017 – The Financial Times of London today ranked the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA (EMBA) at York University the #1 EMBA program in Canada and 27th globally. Today’s Financial Times ranking marks the 11th straight year that the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program has been ranked #1 in Canada.
The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program was ranked 27th globally and placed 11th among programs based in North America in this year’s Financial Times ranking. The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program finished ahead of IMD, Stern and Columbia, and just behind the Kellogg School of Management, UCLA, Duke and London Business School. Among Canadian-based programs, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA placed well ahead of the other EMBA programs, including the one delivered by the Cornell-Queen’s EMBA, which ranked 50th; the Ivey EMBA, which ranked 60th; the Rotman School of Management, which ranked 67th; and the Queen’s EMBA, which ranked 76th.
For complete details regarding the 2017 Financial Times EMBA ranking, please visit: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/executive-mba-ranking-2017.
Other Survey Highlights
- The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked #1 in Canada in the categories of Salary Increase, Career Progress, Aims Achieved and International Course Experience.
The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA also ranked among the top 25 in the world in the following categories:
- 15th 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;
- 20th in the world in the “Research” category, which measures the number of articles published by the faculty in leading academic and business practitioner journals;
- 20th in the world in the “Aims Achieved” category (tied with Kellogg), which measures the extent to which alumni fulfilled their goals and reasons for doing an EMBA; and
- 21st 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-WHU Beisheim EMBA Program based in Germany ranking 23rd, the Kellogg EMBA Program finishing 26th, and the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA Program placing 27th.
“We’re proud to have once again been rated the #1 EMBA program in Canada and one of the top 30 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.”
The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA Program has been ranked #1 in the world and #5 in the world by The Economist in the two global EMBA rankings it has conducted, and was also the top-ranked program in Canada in each of those rankings.
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 #2 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 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 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