Bangkok--6 Nov--Asian Institute of Technology
School of Management (SOM) of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is a close runner-up to Chulalongkorn University’s Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration as the best business school in Thailand, according to the 2014 ranking of the world’s top 1000 business schools by Paris-based Eduniversal.
For the sixth year in a row, SOM was ranked in the top echelon of the nation’s business schools. The results placed the School of Management in the top 250 business schools worldwide, according to the ranking released in Istanbul in October.
The annual Eduniversal ranking rates business schools from 154 countries according to their international reputation at a national and global level, and by geographical zone. After their selection, they are divided within each country into five levels of excellence which Eduniversal titles the ‘Palmes of Excellence’.
Seven business schools in Thailand were ranked, this year. SOM was one of only two institutions to be extended ‘4 Palmes of Excellence’ as a “top Business School with significant international influence.” http://eduniversal-ranking.com/business-school-university-ranking-in-thailand.html. The Copenhagen Business School-CBS (Denmark) earned the ‘Master Title’ of the ‘Best School in the World’.
According to an Eduniversal press release, “a ‘Palme’ level is awarded to each school based on a set of internationalization criteria developed by the International Scientific Committee. These schools are then ranked within each Palme level according to the assessment made by peers: The Deans vote.
“The ‘Dean’s Vote’ allows the deans and directors of the best 1000 business schools worldwide to give their recommendations for each school. The number of recommendations gathered determines the ranking of the schools within each country and Palme league. (http://eduniversal-ranking.com/methodology/palms)
“Every dean’s vote was transformed into a recommendation rate that students and other actors in the academic field can use to evaluate and compare the academic institutions. The Eduniversal objective is to establish a global mapping system that would take into account the international influence and reputation of each academic institution.”
The complete ranking of the best 1000 business schools worldwide and detailed methodology can be found at: http://eduniversal-ranking.com/methodology/