The Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School at UCD has been ranked 24th in the Financial TimesEuropean Business School rankings 2008.
The UCD Smurfit School’s European ranking is an improvement on its position of 36th last year. No other Irish institution made the rankings.
Of the 65 schools in the European rankings, the top three are HEC Paris, London Business School, and Insead of France/Singapore.
According to the Financial Timesrankings, the average MBA salary of a Smurfit school graduate three years after leaving is about €80,000, with a 70 per cent average salary increase from starting the MBA to three years after graduation.
The rankings, published in the paper today, are based on aggregate performance across MBAs, executive MBAs, executive education and masters courses.
In the FT's global MBA rankings for 2008, published in January this year, the UCD Smurfit School ranked 98 out of 100 full-time MBA schools, unchanged from 2007. The University of Pennsylvania: Wharton headed those rankings, followed by the London Business School and Columbia Business School in the United States.
This year, UCD Smurfit School has also been ranked 16th in Europe and 40th in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking of the world's top 100 full-time MBA programmes and 38th in the world by the Financial Timesmaster's in management ranking.
