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Asian schools scale new heights


LONDON, England (CNN) -- Asian business schools are getting better than ever -- that's the message from the latest Financial Times ranking of global MBAs, which lists three Asia-based programs in the top 20.

The annual league table by the London-based business newspaper, now in its 10th year, is traditionally seen as perhaps the most authoritative global ranking, assessing worldwide MBAs on a series of criteria ranging from alumni salaries and experiences to course diversity and academic research.

This year's top 100 remains, as ever, dominated by U.S. and European schools. 61 of the 100 are based in the U.S. or Canada, while 27 are European.

The top five schools are the same as last year, although not all in the same order, with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school leading the rankings again. Next comes London Business School -- up from fifth in 2007 and the highest-rated European school ever -- and then Columbia, Stanford and Harvard.

The remainder of the top 10 is also made up of traditional big hitters, comprising French/Singaporean school Insead, MIT's Sloan, Spain's Instituto de Empresa, Chicago University's Graduate Business School and Cambridge University's Judge, the last of which has shot to 10th from 35th place in only two years.

It is, however, elsewhere in the top 20 that the changes really begin.

While China's Ceibs school, based in Shanghai, remains at 11, it is now joined by two other Asian MBAs, both new not only to the top 20 but to the entire top 100 ranking.

At 17 comes the business school at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology (HKUST), which gained particular credit for the huge international diversity of students taking its MBA.

HKUST's program "aspires to be a leader in the development of international business talent," said a delighted Professor Steven DeKrey, director of the MBA program.

"As reflected in the latest FT rankings, 84 percent of the participants in the HKUST full-time MBA program are international students and it is one of the most international programs in the world in terms of student diversity," he said.

At 20, the second new entrant comes from Asia's other mega-economy in the making, with the Indian School of Business, based in the southern city of Hyderabad.

Taking such a lofty debut spot in the FT ranking was, said the school's dean, M. Rammohan Rao, "a vision come true for all of us at the ISB."

In total, there are six schools in the top 50 based wholly or party in Asia.

The rapid rise of such high-quality programs is, one expert believes, a factor of the desire in Asian countries such as China and India for rapid economic modernization.

"How do you manage in fast-moving economies with limited infrastructure?" Professor Arnoud De Meyer, director of Cambridge University's Judge school, told the survey authors.

"People have to be extremely creative in managing when infrastructure is under-developed."

story from CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/03/03/execed.rankings/index.html
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The following schools are the top 5 MBAs in 2007....

School	Rank (out of 100)
Chicago, University of - Graduate School of Business	1
Stanford Graduate School of Business	2
IESE Business School - University of Navarra	3
Dartmouth College--Tuck School of Business	4
IMD - International Institute for Management Development	5

and...here is the link showing the top 100 MBAs; you can have a surf if interested...
http://mba.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=2007rankings



alas....
A poweful economy really can lead a nation into a comprehensive strong power no matter in what fields...
i think that means the stuedents in china are becoming more difficult to be tackled...