{"id":2397,"date":"2014-11-11T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.hult.edu\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:00:16","slug":"announcing-bloomberg-businessweek-mba-rankings-2014-hult-international-business-school-is-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/announcing-bloomberg-businessweek-mba-rankings-2014-hult-international-business-school-is-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Businessweek MBA rankings 2014 \u2013 Hult top ten for employer satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> announced their 2014 rankings<\/a> of the best full-time MBA programs<\/a> today. Hult International Business School placed in these rankings for the first time, debuting at #21 in the international category. Businessweek<\/i> ranked 112 business schools: 85 U.S. schools and 27 international schools. Hult is now ranked by three of the global ranking bodies in 2014: the Financial Times<\/i>, The Economist<\/a><\/i>, and Bloomberg Businessweek<\/i>.<\/p>\n

We placed in the top ten for employer satisfaction, adding momentum to our mission to provide the most globally relevant business education. We believe the key to achieving this is to work as closely as possible with employers to determine the needs of the modern workplace, and continuously evolve our programs<\/a> to meet those needs.<\/p>\n

Hult\u2019s President Stephen Hodges says of the school\u2019s placement in these global MBA rankings: \u201cWe\u2019re particularly pleased to feature in these prestigious rankings as they are 90% determined by student and employer satisfaction. These are also the key criteria we use to judge how successful and effective we are as a school.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to their rankings methodology<\/a>, Businessweek <\/i>asked recruiters hiring MBAs from the ranked schools to rate graduates\u2019 performance on specific qualities important to them, and rate how effective they were once they were hired. Both the quality and reach of the graduates were considered, and Businessweek<\/em> called out the employer score as a key differentiator:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe employer score was based equally on two components: its\u00a0average rating<\/i>\u00a0by employers (a measure of the school\u2019s quality); and the number\u00a0<\/i>of good ratings it received (a measure of the school\u2019s reach). Student survey scores are more closely bunched among top schools\u2014the differences are small\u2014while employer scores are more widely distributed, so a good employer score serves better to differentiate a school than a good student score does.\u201d<\/p>\n

We know from employer recommendations that our graduates are well-regarded in the workplace. Top employers, such as Johnson & Johnson and Deloitte, are returning year after year to recruit at all our global locations and hire more of our graduates. To better address the needs of top employers, we launched a unique headhunting service in 2013, allowing us to match students and alumni to the most suitable openings employers have worldwide.<\/p>\n

Businessweek<\/i> uses three measures to determine the rankings:<\/p>\n

\u201cA survey of student satisfaction (45 percent of the ranking); a survey of employers who hire those graduates (45 percent); and the expertise of each school\u2019s faculty, measured by faculty research in esteemed journals (10 percent).\u201d<\/p>\n

Student satisfaction is another key metric we monitor closely internally. We use student evaluations<\/a> to measure our performance across all our services and take student feedback extremely seriously. Last year, students from across our global locations<\/a> gave our courses an average rating in excess of 4.0 on a 5-point scale.<\/p>\n

Questions in the Businessweek<\/i> student survey examine the quality of academic and career development offerings at the school, what the student body and school culture is like, and an evaluation of the students\u2019 own skill sets.<\/p>\n

Anchoring from previous years\u2019 rankings is worth bearing in mind. Anchoring means that school\u2019s scores from previous years are carried forward and bear weight when calculating this year\u2019s score. This means that schools new to the rankings don\u2019t benefit from anchoring.<\/p>\n

Despite their role as a rankings provider, Businessweek<\/i> urges those weighing up different business schools and MBA programs not to use rankings as the sole differentiator.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, a note to prospective students: Don\u2019t let rankings alone make your school decision for you. Our rankings and school profiles offer a thorough picture of the current landscape of full-time MBA programs, but deciding where to go to school is a personal decision. A school that is right for one student may be wrong for another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hult\u2019s review by Businessweek<\/em> follows the recent recognition of our innovative One-Year MBA program which won the 2014 MBA Innovation Award from accrediting body AMBA<\/a> on October 30th.
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