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Financial Times Ranks Kellogg-Schulich EMBA
#1 in Canada and Among World’s Top 20 Executive MBA Programs

TORONTO, ON – Monday, October 22, 2007 – The Financial Times of London today ranked the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA (EMBA) at York University the number one EMBA program in Canada and among the top 20 programs in the world.

In its first ever appearance in the Financial Times EMBA ranking, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program placed 17th overall and took the #1 position in Canada previously held for a number of years by the Richard Ivey School of Business. Today’s Financial Times EMBA ranking is the sixth straight major global survey released over the past two months to rank Schulich #1 in Canada.

In placing 17th globally, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program finished just behind Duke, Kellogg (Schulich’s EMBA partner school) and INSEAD, and ahead of IMD, UC-Berkeley/Columbia (a joint program) and NYU Stern. Among Canadian programs, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked ahead of the Alberta-Haskayne EMBA (a joint program delivered by the University of Alberta School of Business and the Haskayne School of Business), in 28th place; and ahead of the Rotman School of Management and the Ivey School of Business, jointly ranked 32nd overall. Among EMBA programs based in North America or involving North American schools, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked 9th. For complete ranking details, please visit http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/emba2007.

Other survey highlights
The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked:

2nd in the world in the “International Students” category;
12th in the world in the “Research” category, which measures the number of articles published in leading academic and business practitioner journals;
15th in the world in the “Course Experience” category, which measures the percentage of classroom teaching hours that are carried out in countries outside of the country where the program is located.
18th in the world in the “Work Experience” category, which measures previous experience of EMBA participants, including seniority of positions held and previous international work experience;

“We’re proud to have been ranked among a very select grouping of the top EMBA programs by the Financial Times of London in our very first participation in this globally recognized survey,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “Ever since launching the groundbreaking Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA, North America’s first cross-border executive degree, we have considered it a truly world-class program. Today’s ranking result provides an authoritative, third-party assessment of the quality of our program and clearly establishes the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA as one the leading programs in the world.”



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 the Aspen Institute (a Washington, DC-based leadership think tank) in a global survey that identified 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 ranked #1 in Canada by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist and Expansión (a Time Warner publication based in Mexico City). The Kellogg global network of EMBA partner schools, which includes the Kellogg- Schulich EMBA, is ranked #1 in the world by The Wall Street Journal, and the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA is ranked #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 two Toronto campuses — its new state-of-the-art complex on York University’s main campus and its downtown Miles S. Nadal Management Centre located in the heart of the city’s financial district. The School also operates representative offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Moscow, Russia. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has more than 21,000 alumni working in approximately 90 countries. Schulich 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. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.

Contact: Elayne Shapiro at (416) 736-5546.