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The Wall Street Journal Ranks Schulich Among World’s Top 15 International Business Schools
TORONTO, ON – Wednesday, September 20, 2006 – The Schulich School of Business at York University was today ranked among the world’s top 15 international business schools for the third straight year in TheWall Street Journal‘s annual global survey of corporate recruiters. Schulich ranked 13th in the world – its highest ever ranking in the newspaper’s “Top International Schools” survey.
Schulich ranked ahead of Chicago, Wharton, Insead, Harvard and Stanford in the international schools ranking and finished 6th among North American business schools. In last year’s Wall Street Journal ranking, Schulich placed 15th overall.
A total of 264 business schools – 185 from the US and 79 from outside the US – were eligible to take part in this year’s Wall Street Journal ranking. Of that total, only 85 received the minimum number of recruiter ratings to qualify for the final ranking, and only 24 of those schools were eligible to be included in the “Top International Schools” category. The Wall Street Journal describes its “Top International Schools” survey as a ranking of schools that have a global reach in their job-placement activities.
More than 4,100 recruiters from around the world were asked to assess various attributes of the school and its students, including student leadership, teamwork, interpersonal and analytical skills, and “supportive behaviour” – the likelihood that a recruiter will continue recruiting from a school and make a job offer to its students within the next two years.
“We’re pleased to have been ranked for the third straight year among a select group of truly international schools,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “And we’re proud to have achieved our highest ranking ever in this highly competitive survey that measures an important aspect of a school’s global reach.”
About Schulich
Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked 18th in the world by the Financial Times of London, and 27th in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business research and intelligence arm of The Economist magazine, in their most recent annual rankings of the world’s top 100 MBA programs. Schulich is also ranked 3rd in the world in the field of corporate social responsibility in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking conducted by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute, 15th in the world in The Wall Street Journal’s “Top International Schools” ranking, and 3rd in the world among non-US schools in the Forbes ranking. Schulich is ranked as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US by Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist (EIU) and the Financial Times, and number one in Canada by the Financial Times, Forbes, The Economist (EIU), and the World Resources and Aspen Institutes.