Full-Time MBA is #4 globally in Corporate Knights - Better World MBA ranking

CBS Full-Time MBA 4th globally in Better World MBA ranking

Corporate Knights releases the 15th edition of the Better World MBA ranking. The ranking, which has been published annually since 2002, evaluates instruction and research in sustainability from a base universe of the top 100 schools on the Financial Times Global MBA rankings, and invites all other accredited MBA programs (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS) to opt-in.

Eligible programs are assessed on the number of core courses, institutes and centres, and faculty research produced in the last three years related to sustainability, including corporate responsibility, human rights and ethics. This year, Corporate Knights evaluated 134 programs, 9% more than in 2016. Of these programs, 70.9% boast dedicated courses in the subject area for their MBA students.

The top 40 of the Better World MBA ranking are programs that equip their graduates to understand sustainability issues and solve business problems in an interconnected climate in which environmental and social issues directly affect businesses, and for which businesses play a key role in solving.

“Businesses are re-orienting their strategies to align with the sustainable development goals for a fairer, greener planet. The top 40 ranked Better World MBA programs are training grounds for future business
leaders who want to be part of the monumental shift,” said Toby Heaps, CEO of Corporate Knights.

This year’s top ten is rounded out by Copenhagen Business School, Duquesne University, TIAS School for Business and Society, MIT Sloan School of Management, the University of Vermont Grossman
School of Business and McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. Seven MBA programs dropped out of the top 40 from last year, making way for the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School
of Business, KAIST, Gonzaga University, and Brandeis University. The number of Canadian programs recognized at this level remains steady since last year at nine.

Among FT 100 Global MBA programs, the number of sustainability related publications increased by 17% over the past year to 5,326, while the number of sustainability-related institutes increased by 14% to
276.

About Corporate Knights: Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights is a Toronto-based media and research company focused on clean capitalism – an economic system that incorporates social, economic and
ecological factors – and reports on sustainability at the intersection of business and society. Corporate Knights is best known for rules-based transparent rankings of corporate sustainability performance,
including the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada and the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. Learn more at www.corporateknights.com.