In this year’s Financial Times Global MBA Rankings Survey, NUS Business School’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme ranking made a quantum leap of 46 spots from its previous position at 81st to this year’s 35th spot. The school ranks 5th amongst its Asian peers and has the distinction of being among a select few schools in Asia to earn a place in FT’s highly competitive survey traditionally dominated by top US and European business schools.

Professor Bernard Yeung, Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor of Finance at NUS Business School, said: "We are delighted to note that our ranking by FT has improved the most among all the business schools in the last few years. This is in line with our plan to become one of Asia’s best business schools but more so, we believe that we are moving towards our goal of being a top business school that is characterised by intellectual intensity and curiousity, integrity and a drive for excellence.”

Besides being ranked 35th overall, the NUS MBA programme is ranked 11th in the world for the ‘International Experience’ that it provides to its students.

The School ranked 47th in career progression, 13 spots up from its previous 60th position. This signalled that its MBA graduates made significant strides in their career progression after graduating with the NUS MBA.

These rankings resonate with the newly released QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009: The Employers’ Choice survey, which puts NUS Business School 3rd in Asia, after INSEAD Singapore and Melbourne Business School. The only Asian business school in Singapore to be included in the survey, the rankings underscore NUS MBA graduates’ employability as employers’ most preferred choice of hire amongst Singapore’s business schools.

The significant improvements in rankings by NUS Business School is consistent with other global rankings and surveys, such as FT’s Executive MBA rankings, which ranks the School at 20th in the world. This makes NUS Business School the only Singapore school to be ranked among the best in the world for both its MBA and Executive MBA programmes. 

The FT ranking of full-time global MBA programmes is based on data compiled from two main sources: information on the business schools and alumni who graduated three years ago.

Professor Bernard Yeung expressed delight in the School’s excellent performance, noting: “The strong endorsements of NUS Business School’s MBA by the alumni and employer respondents to these two prestigious surveys is not only an affirmation of the quality of the NUS MBA, it is also an affirmation of Singapore’s  position as a global education hub.”

The FT MBA ranking serves as a prominent benchmark for all business schools for their MBA programmes, recognising schools in the top positions as leading providers of business education.