Schulich School of Business Ranked Among World’s Best in Responsible Business
TORONTO, ON – Friday, November 8, 2019 – The MBA program at York University’s Schulich School of Business was ranked #2 in the world according to the results of a global survey conducted by Corporate Knights, one of the world’s largest circulation magazines with an explicit focus on responsible business.
Schulich was ranked 2nd in the world, with an overall score of 89.9%. Other prominent business schools that made the 2019 global ranking include MIT Sloan School of Management, which placed 6th, as well as INSEAD, Cambridge, UC Berkeley and Wharton. For more information, visit: https://www.corporateknights.com/reports/2019-better-world-mba/.
The Better World MBA Ranking measured business schools in the following key areas: dedicated research institutes and centres, core curriculum courses, faculty research articles and faculty citations, and faculty gender and racial diversity.
Schulich ranked #1 in the world in regard to the number of sustainability-related publications in top journals, and #2 overall in terms of sustainability-related citations per faculty member.
“Schulich is pleased to have once again been ranked among the very best schools in the world in Responsible Business,” said Dezsö J. Horváth, Dean of the Schulich School of Business. “We also take great pride in our strong results in the main category of research publications and citations. Schulich faculty are not only prolific researchers in the area of Responsible Business, but their research is also widely cited by other academics around the world.”
Since responsible business rankings first emerged in the early 2000s, Schulich has been a global leader. The School has routinely been ranked #1 globally or among the top three in the world in rankings conducted by Corporate Knights and the Aspen Institute, a Washington, DC leadership think tank.