Cape Town University MBA Ranks in Top 50

TORONTO – In two roundups of the world’s best MBA programs, the University of Cape Town came out in the Top 50 of one, and was ranked best in Africa in the other.

The highly regarded Canadian magazine Corporate Knights, which is a supplement to the Washington Post and subtitles itself The Magazine for Clean Capitalism, said in its 2015 Better World MBA Issue released in early October that UCT’s Graduate School of Business came in 37th position, the only university in Africa. It ranked between the Indian Institute of Management’s IIM Ahmedabad and Boston College in the United States.

Besides one university each in Denmark, South Korea, Germany and France, the top 20 positions were held by institutions in UK, the US and Canada, whose Schulich School of Business at York University came first.

At a conference held in Boston on 12 October by the Paris-based Eduniversal, a global ranking and rating agency specializing in higher education, it was noted that the highest-ranking business program in Africa was UCT’s. Second place went to the American University in Cairo School of Business, followed by the University of Stellenbosch Business School.