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The Wall Street Journal has ranked the Kellogg global network of Executive MBA programs – including the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA in Toronto – #1 in the world in its first ever global Executive MBA ranking.
Toronto’s Kellogg-Schulich EMBA
A Partner in the Kellogg Global Network

TORONTO, ON – Wednesday, October 1, 2008 –The Wall Street Journal has ranked the Kellogg global network of Executive MBA programs – including the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA in Toronto – #1 in the world in its first ever global Executive MBA ranking.

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, together with its partner schools, took top spot in the ranking, finishing ahead of Wharton. Kellogg’s network of partner schools includes the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada; the WHU-Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management in Germany; the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in China; the Recanati Graduate School of Management at Tel Aviv University in Israel; and the Kellogg School of Management in Miami.

The Wall Street Journal ranking was based on three components: 1) a student survey completed by 4,060 students from 72 EMBA programs in 9 countries; 2) a corporate survey completed by Human Resource and Executive Development Managers at more than 200 corporations and organizations; and 3) an assessment of how well each EMBA program imparted management and leadership skills that were considered most important to corporate executives.
For more information on the ranking results, visit www.careerjournal.com.

Established in 2001, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program will graduate its sixth class this month. One of the many strengths of the Kellogg-Schulich program is the quality of its students, who work at many of the world’s leading corporations and organizations. Among the many outstanding students in the current classes are Dr. Ellie Farahani, who was among a select group of scientists that shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice-President Al Gore for their work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and Craig Kielburger, founder of Free The Children, the world’s leading youth-driven charity, winner of The World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (often called the Children’s Nobel Prize), and one of the youngest ever recipients of the Order of Canada.

The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA was ranked #1 in Canada last year in a global survey of Executive MBA programs conducted by the Financial Times of London. The Financial Times survey ranked Kellogg and its partners separately, and four of the programs, including both the Kellogg EMBA and the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA, were ranked among the top 20 programs in the world.

“It is a great honour to be part of the world’s top-rated EMBA consortium,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “We partnered with Kellogg in order to create a world-class EMBA program for Canada’s most promising business leaders and entrepreneurs. Today’s new Wall Street Journal EMBA ranking provides strong evidence that the program is highly regarded by both students and corporate executives.”



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.