Bocconi: Management and MBA at the Top of FT and Forbes
The start of lessons in Bocconi coincides with a new double acknowledgement of the quality of teaching coming from two different rankings. Bocconi's graduate program in International Management rises three places in the ranking of Masters in Management published in the Financial Times today and takes up 9th place in the World. The second acknowledgement arrives from the US where Forbes has placed the MBA program of SDA Bocconi in 4th place in its ranking of the best programs taught outside the US.
The acknowledgement from FT regards the Master of Science in International Management, taught in English, and the evaluations for the ranking are based on a series of criteria, including the placement of graduates, students' international experience and alumni progress in terms of salary and career. Of the individual criteria, the Bocconi program stands out for the international mobility of graduates (ranked 4th in the world).
Bocconi MSc programs can thus boast two placings in the top 10 of FT, since in June the Master of science in Finance was ranked 9th. Bocconi is also present in the management ranking with the CEMS program, of which it was a founding member, in 4th place.
The MBA of SDA Bocconi gains an acknowledgement of its value in the international job market in the Forbes ranking of the best 1-year programs from non-American business schools, which is based on the single criteria of the return on investment of programs. A return which Forbes calculates through the improvement in salary that graduates realize in the five years after getting their diploma minus the cost of the program and the salary lost during studies.
"These two excellent results bring great prestige to the whole University and acknowledge the value of the teaching model of our graduate programs and of our MBA," comments Stefano Caselli, Dean for International Affairs at Bocconi. "The rankings are nowadays highly competitive: it clearly emerges how the Master in International Management increasingly interests the Asian universities, who contend with European universities the talents who look at the global market. Both in the case of the Master in International Management and the MBA program of SDA Bocconi the common element which emerges is strong appreciation on the part of international employers, as confirmed by the data on the salary of our graduates and their placement."