The Smurfit Graduate Business School at University College Dublin (UCD) has jumped 18 places in the Financial Times' annual ranking of full-time MBA programs, becoming the only Irish institution to break into the top 100. The school placed 73rd globally, up from 91st last year. The Financial Times evaluates programs based on criteria such as graduate career progression, employment rates, and salary increases.
Dublin's UCD Smurfit Graduate School of business was also named in the FT's top 100 business schools late last year. Photograph: Shane O'Neill
The school placed 73rd globally in the latest edition of the Financial Times MBA Rankings, published on Monday, up from 91st last year.The Financial Times assesses the quality of MBA programmes across several criteria, including the career progression prospects of its graduates, the percentage of graduates employed three months after graduating and the salary increase that graduates can expect after completing their MBA.
The school was one of three Irish institutions to be named in the top 100 in that list, including Trinity, which placed 32nd, and Cork University Business School/Irish Management Institute, which placed 83rd.
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