UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CELEBRATES A RECORD 10 YEARS IN TOP GLOBAL RANKING
The UCT Graduate School of Business, one of just 59 schools worldwide to have triple-crown accreditation, is also still the only African MBA to be ranked in the pre-eminent Financial Times full-time MBA ranking.
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business this year celebrated its 10th consecutive placement in the prestigious Financial Times ranking of full-time MBAs around the world. The only African MBA to feature in the ranking, it rose to 59th place this January.
GSB director, Professor Walter Baets says the rise in ranking
shows the GSBs commitment to providing a world-class MBA programme.
“We are very proud that our hard work and vision have been acknowledged in this way. The GSB is continually striving to ensure that we remain rooted in relevance while acting as pioneers of innovative business education, and the FT rankings
stand as a testament to this,” he says. According to this year’s ranking, the GSB also offers the second-best economics programme in the world and ranks 13th in the world in terms of career progress.
The FT ranking is regarded as the authoritative ranking of MBA programmes, partly because of the manner in which the rankings are compiled. The Financial Times incorporates 20 different sets of criteria, including survey responses from alumni who graduated three years prior to the ranking, and a range of information from the business schools.
Baets says the ranking is very important to potential students, especially international ones who use them to decide which school will best suit them. He adds that students are also drawn to the GSB because of its growing reputation as an institution that
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