Maine Business School Named One of World’s Best
Contact: John Mahon, (207) 581-1968; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
ORONO — The Paris-based international educational consulting organization Eduniversal has included the Maine Business School at the University of Maine among its recent selection of 1,000 of the world’s best business schools.
The organization, a subsidiary of the international training and career guidance company SMBG in France, analyzed 4,000 websites and institutional publications to arrive at a list of the best business schools in each of nine regions of the world — Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Middle East, Far Eastern Asia, Latin America, Oceania (island states including Australia, Hawaii, New Guinea and Samoa), Western Europe and North America (the United States and Canada).
Eduniversal is establishing a premier global database of higher economic and business education institutions to help students choose among the best business schools in any country, region or continent in the world. It also offers consultation to human resources departments at companies and institutions in the field of business.
The Academic Council of the United Nations supports Eduniversal projects. It covers all continents and 153 countries with more than 97 percent of the world’s population. Eduniversal also provides services to various companies in their search for specialists for recruitment and exchange of science information.
The results of the Eduniversal ratings testify to the recognition by international experts of the Maine Business School’s influence and recognition internationally, says John Mahon, dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Health at UMaine and founding director the university’s School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA).
Selection criteria for the best business schools database that was considered by a nine-member Eduniversal International Scientific Committee included world nations’ investments in education per capita, gross national product, population, the number of students in higher education, and recommendations by business school deans around the world.
Selection of business schools in each country also was based on information about international accreditations by or affiliations with international academic associations, rankings in international and national publications, strength of the business schools’ networks, and results of published research and websites. Final selections were based on unique and complex criteria, including “the ability of the business school to make its students shine on an international level,” the organization says.
Mahon says he is pleased and flattered, “but not terribly surprised,” to be included in the ranks of the world’s most prestigious business schools.
“I am certain that what helped elevate us to these ranks of the best schools on the planet had a lot to do with the international and experiential components of the business school, from our faculty to the extraordinarily high quality of our students at all levels — and the curriculum, which requires at least one international experience for our MBAs before they are awarded degrees,” Mahon says.