Awarded by: Financial Times
Top in Asia-Pacific Two Years in a Row
Research Rank Advances To Top 20 in the World
The School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) has again been selected as the top Asia-Pacific business school offering a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program by the latest international rankings released today (20 January 2003) by the Financial Times. This is the second year that the School has obtained the top spot among business schools in the region.
In the area of research, HKUST moves up six places and ranks 20th in the world, two places behind London Business School and ahead of some well-known US research-focused business schools such as that of the University of Southern California (22).
As reported in the Financial Times, "...the good news is that it (HKUST) retained its top slot in Asia. Perhaps the biggest contributing factor was its research rank of 20 in the world, despite having a faculty of just 92 ?half the number of most of the big US schools."
If comparing only publicly funded institutions, HKUST's research rank is 6th in the world, after University of Maryland (7), University of California at Berkeley (10), University of California at Los Angeles (12), University of Michigan (16) and Ohio State University (19).