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"Financial Times" ranks Thunderbird No. 1 in international business
Thunderbird has not only once again been ranked No. 1 in International Business by the Financial Times in its annual worldwide ranking of full-time MBA programs, but the school has also debuted in the Top 10 for Corporate Social Responsibility, two areas that are most central to Thunderbird's mission "to educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide."
This is the fourth year the Financial Times has included an International Business specialty in its annual look at the world’s best MBA programs, and Thunderbird has landed the No. 1 position every year. This year, the school ranked ahead of University of South Carolina Moore; Georgetown University (McDonough), Insead, George Washington University, which rounded out the top five respectively. Thunderbird landed the No. 10 spot in this year’s Corporate Social Responsibility category.
“Educating global leaders with the business skills and global mindset to succeed in today’s complex international marketplace while also having a positive impact in their communities has never been more relevant than in today’s global economy,” said Thunderbird President Ángel Cabrera. “It will be managers who lead with a global mindset and who create sustainable value for their companies, customers, and societies, that will have the greatest success and greatest impact in the world.”
Thunderbird has been one of the world’s foremost advocates of business ethics, corporate responsibility and oaths of honor for business school graduates and managers worldwide. In 2004, Thunderbird became the first business school in the world to incorporate a professional Oath of Honor for its graduates. Thunderbird’s oath, which made headlines following the financial crisis, has been the benchmark from which students from other schools, like Harvard, have developed their own oaths.
Thunderbird was also instrumental in helping develop the Global Business Oath, an initiative of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders that is being unveiled this week during the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Thunderbird also played a key role in developing the United Nations Global Compact “Principles for Responsible Management Education,” which serve to strengthen the role of business schools in promoting ethics and corporate citizenship. More than 250 schools from around the world, including Thunderbird, have endorsed them.
Thunderbird made the Financial Times’ general list of the top providers of full-time MBA programs. The school is ranked No. 67 on the top 100 list of schools around the world.
For a full listing of rankings, please visit www.ft.com.