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October 16th, 2004, 01:58 AM
HKU stands out in Economist's MBA poll
Linda Yeung
16 October 2004
South China Morning Post
The University of Hong Kong was the only local institution to make it into the world's top 100 MBA programmes in a poll by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of The Economist Group.
Ranked top in East Asia, HKU moved up to 68th from 79 last year and came third in Asia/Australia, where the highest-ranked institution was Australia's Macquarie Graduate School of Management, which was in 50th place.
Chinese University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which participated in the poll, were unranked. HKUST was ranked 73 last year. Both universities have sought clarification from EIU.
"We were ranked in other similar polls and surprised that this time we were not," a spokesman for CUHK's MBA programme said.
American schools dominated the top programmes, with Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, which is running a joint EMBA programme with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, coming out top for the third consecutive year, followed by Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Harvard Business School. Of the top 20 schools, 16 are in the US.
The only non-US institution that made it to the top 10 was the IESE Business School of Spain's University of Navarra, a strategic partner of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai (CEIBS), which was ranked 95, down from 65 last year. But CEIBS was among the top 10 in the category of "open new career opportunities". France-based INSEAD, which has a Singapore campus, was 20th.
The annual survey put much weight on students' feedback on how schools had met their demands in the areas of opening new career opportunities, salary increases, the potential to network, and personal development and educational experience. It collected detailed questionnaires completed by business schools and over 21,000 current MBA students and graduates around the world.
HKU's MBA programme director Maurice Tse Kwok-sang said it was important to collect end-users' views. "They are the ones who have invested their own time and money, sacrificing valuable time with their family to complete the programme," he said, adding that the quality of HKU's MBA teachers ranked 33rd in the EIU poll.
An EIU release said the results highlighted a clear regional pecking order when it came to full-time MBA programmes: North America leads the way, followed by Europe, and then Asia and Australasia, which still has a lot of ground to make up. Details of the poll are available at www.which-mba.com.
Top Asian Schools with Worldwide Ranking
Macquarie Graduate School of Management 50
Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad 64
Hong Kong, University of - School of Business 68
Australian Graduate School of Management 77
International University of Japan - Grad School of Intl Management 84
Melbourne, University of - Melbourne Business School 92
Nanyang Technological University - Nanyang Business School 93
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) 95
Linda Yeung
16 October 2004
South China Morning Post
The University of Hong Kong was the only local institution to make it into the world's top 100 MBA programmes in a poll by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of The Economist Group.
Ranked top in East Asia, HKU moved up to 68th from 79 last year and came third in Asia/Australia, where the highest-ranked institution was Australia's Macquarie Graduate School of Management, which was in 50th place.
Chinese University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which participated in the poll, were unranked. HKUST was ranked 73 last year. Both universities have sought clarification from EIU.
"We were ranked in other similar polls and surprised that this time we were not," a spokesman for CUHK's MBA programme said.
American schools dominated the top programmes, with Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, which is running a joint EMBA programme with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, coming out top for the third consecutive year, followed by Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Harvard Business School. Of the top 20 schools, 16 are in the US.
The only non-US institution that made it to the top 10 was the IESE Business School of Spain's University of Navarra, a strategic partner of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai (CEIBS), which was ranked 95, down from 65 last year. But CEIBS was among the top 10 in the category of "open new career opportunities". France-based INSEAD, which has a Singapore campus, was 20th.
The annual survey put much weight on students' feedback on how schools had met their demands in the areas of opening new career opportunities, salary increases, the potential to network, and personal development and educational experience. It collected detailed questionnaires completed by business schools and over 21,000 current MBA students and graduates around the world.
HKU's MBA programme director Maurice Tse Kwok-sang said it was important to collect end-users' views. "They are the ones who have invested their own time and money, sacrificing valuable time with their family to complete the programme," he said, adding that the quality of HKU's MBA teachers ranked 33rd in the EIU poll.
An EIU release said the results highlighted a clear regional pecking order when it came to full-time MBA programmes: North America leads the way, followed by Europe, and then Asia and Australasia, which still has a lot of ground to make up. Details of the poll are available at www.which-mba.com.
Top Asian Schools with Worldwide Ranking
Macquarie Graduate School of Management 50
Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad 64
Hong Kong, University of - School of Business 68
Australian Graduate School of Management 77
International University of Japan - Grad School of Intl Management 84
Melbourne, University of - Melbourne Business School 92
Nanyang Technological University - Nanyang Business School 93
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) 95