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MBA Global Rankings 2012
February 15th, 2012 | 
Author: The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business MBA Programme continues to be ranked in the global top 100 MBA programmes. The latest Financial Times, FT, MBA rankings released last week currently ranks the programme 86th in the world and 20th in Europe.
We are the only Irish Business School to be ranked. We are among less than 60 schools worldwide that have been consistently ranked in the top 100 over the last thirteen years.
As we all know the MBA market is increasingly competitive. This is clearly demonstrated in the FT rankings which included some 6 new entrants and 7 re-entrants, underscoring that continual improvement is key.
Our aim is to develop Global Minds and in order to achieve this we must continue to evolve. We evaluate our Academic Curriculum, Personal and Professional Development and Careers Programmes on a regular basis incorporating learning from our students and the market place.
This demonstrates the School’s emphasis on continuous improvement and re-affirms the quality of a UCD Smurfit School qualification thereby strengthening the employability of all of our graduates.
- Orla Nugent, MBA Director
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A Typical Accountant!
The 19th century philosopher, Elbert Hubbard, described the typical accountant as:
“A man past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a cod-fish, polite in contact, but at the same time, unresponsive, cold, calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or plaster-of-paris cast; a human petrfication with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion, or a sense of humour.
Happily, they never reproduce and all of them finally go to hell”
(Source: Horngren, C.T., (1982) Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 5th Ed, Prentice Hall, p350.
Thanks to my colleague Tony O’Dea for bringing this to my attention)
- Professor Niamh Brennan, Michael Mac Cormac Prof of Management, UCD
[Prof. Brennan currently lectures in Financial Reporting for the FT MBA Class)
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