The School of Management (SOM) at the Asian Institute of Technology
(AIT) is one of two business schools in Thailand to crack the global
top 200 in a newly released ranking of the world’s best 1000 business
schools in 154 countries.
In the Eduniversal Worldwide Business School Ranking 2012 announced in
Paris on October 24, AIT’s School of Management placed 146th globally,
and second in Thailand, just 24 percentage points behind Chulalongkorn
University's Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.
In Asia, AIT SOM placed 22nd of all graduate business schools in the
Far East Asia geographical region.
Dean of the School of Management Dr. Barbara Igel said: “Faculty,
students and staff at AIT’s School of Management are very proud of
having yet again achieved recognition for being well known
internationally.
“We are particularly happy to have kept this rank despite having our
campus inundated by the most devastating flood in Thailand in recent
history, which engulfed our buildings for almost two months and
destroyed all classrooms located on the ground floor of the
school.”
In the global second-tier category of "Top Business Schools" which are
"internationally known", SOM placed 45th in a statistical tie with
Concordia University's John Molson School of Business (Canada),
University of Otago's School of Business (New Zealand), Istanbul
University's Faculty of Business Administration (Turkey), Singapore
Management University's Lee Kong Chian School of Business (Singapore),
and the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Ciências
Económicas e Empresariais (Portugal).
Sasin and the School of Management were the only business schools in
Thailand ranked in the Top Business School category. Other business
schools in Thailand included in the ranking were from Thammasat
University, Kasetsart University, Chiang Mai University, Prince of
Songkla University and Khon Kean University.
The 2012 ranking is based on the results of a survey vote conducted
from December 2011 to March 2012 of the deans of 1,000 top academic
institutions around the world. Every dean's vote was transformed into a
recommendation as a means to evaluate and compare academic
institutions. Harvard University Business School was deemed the world’s
best.
Headquartered in France, Eduniversal is a global ranking and rating
agency specializing in higher education.
For complete information on Eduniversal Worldwide Business Schools
Ranking 2012, visit:
http://www.eduniversal-ranking.com