HKUST Business School

Established in 1991, the School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, also known as HKUST Business School, is a business school in Hong Kong

 

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Accreditation 

HKUST is the first business school in the region to be awarded accreditation by both the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) and European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).

Rankings 

 

The HKUST Business School is ranked amongst the top business schools in Asia and Australia in the global MBA rankings since 2001.In 2012, the HKUST MBA program has been ranked world TOP 10 by The Financial Times. In 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program, jointly organized with Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University, was ranked number 1 in the world. 2007 was the first time an Asian-based program obtained a number 1 spot in an international survey. The publication also ranked HKUST Business School number 27 in the world – as well as best in Asia and Australia – 2004 and 2005 for the quality of executive programs offered.

Describing HKUST as a top-ranked Asian school, the EIU said the School’s full-time faculty teaching on the MBA program are all PhD qualified. It also described the School as having excellent facilities, with easy access to markets such as China and turns out graduates who are much coveted by employers across the world.

The Financial Times Global MBA ranking 2012 consists of a range of criteria and the HKUST MBA is ranked world no. 7 for international experience and Asia no. 1 for research. A typical HKUST full-time MBA class represents over 90% non-local nationality and more than 25 different nationalities in a class size of around 110 students. A part-time MBA class has 80 to 100 students representing around 40% non-local nationality.

In 2012, the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program has again topped the Financial Times’ survey of EMBA programs, the program’s fourth consecutive year in the No.1 spot of the ranking. It had a clear overall lead with high scores in the areas of the extent to which the graduates fulfill their goals for taking the program, their diversity, and their work experience. This is the fifth time that the program has taken the No. 1 position (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012), and also extends the program’s streak to eight years of being ranked among the top three in the world since 2005.

The program is ranked the world's No. 1 in terms of "Aims Achieved", which measures the extent to which the alumni fulfilled their most important goals for taking the program. The average number of years of working experience of the 2009 class was 14, ranked No. 2 by the Financial Times. According to the ranking, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA graduates' average salary of three years after graduation reached US$465,774 per annum, an increase of 42% comparing with their average pre-EMBA salary. The average salary is the highest among the 100 EMBA programs surveyed.