Monday, March 5, 2007

The Economist Ranks Schulich Among World’s Top Executive Education Providers

TORONTO, ON – Monday, December 11, 2006 – The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business research and intelligence arm of Britain’s The Economist magazine, today ranked the Schulich School of Business at York University in the top tier in the world for both open enrolment and custom executive education programs.

The EIU survey is the only major global ranking that rates executive education providers exclusively on categories deemed most important by their clients and customers. These categories include program content, faculty quality, value for money, the school’s amenities and the impact of learning back in the workplace.

In the open enrolment (public) category, Schulich ranked second in the top tier jointly with Wisconsin-Madison and two other schools, ahead of Kellogg and Chicago. Schulich was one of eight schools in the world awarded an overall rating of “excellent”.

In the custom program category, Schulich placed fourth overall in the top tier jointly with Chicago and four other schools, just behind Spain’s IESE. Schulich was one of nine schools in the world awarded an overall rating of “excellent”.

Schulich was one of four schools in the world to be ranked in the top tier of both executive education categories (open enrolment and custom programs), and was the only Canadian school to make the 2006 executive education ranking.

The EIU executive educating rankings are available in the 2006 edition of the book Which MBA?, a comprehensive guide to the world’s leading MBA and executive education programs.

“We’re pleased to have been ranked by The Economist for the second straight year as one of the top executive education providers in the world,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “We believe that our world-class faculty, cutting-edge and relevant programs, and our state-of-the-art Executive Learning Centre continue to be key elements in the strong customer satisfaction ratings our School received.”


About Schulich
Known as Canada’s Transnational 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), 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, 13th 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.

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 satellite centres in Beijing, China; Mumbai, India; and Seoul, South Korea. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has over 19,000 alumni working in more than 80 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 Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. The Schulich Executive Education Centre (SEEC) provides executive development programs annually to more than 14,000 executives in Canada and abroad, and is ranked by the Economist Intelligence Unit as the world’s number one provider of open enrolment executive education programming.

Contact: Elayne Shapiro at (416) 736-5546

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