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The forward momentum continues for WashU Olin Business School with news that our full-time MBA program placed 32nd nationally in Bloomberg Businessweek’s new ranking—up four spots from 2017.

The ranking, released on Thursday, relied on new methodology from previous years and scored Olin highly among US business schools for post-graduate compensation among WashU MBA recipients.

“Olin’s mission focuses on producing and serving business leaders who will change the world—not on rankings,” said Dean Mark P. Taylor. “But when we see a series of rankings confirming our momentum at WashU Olin, we can be gratified that our work is being affirmed and recognized.”

Almost simultaneously, The Princeton Review released its annual ranking of business schools and placed WashU Olin’s full-time MBA in the top five in the country for resources for women. That further reinforced an earlier Financial Times ranking that placed Olin No. 4 globally for MBA programs for women.

These latest results join a series of other recent rankings of business programs around the country and the world, including:

• The Financial Times global MBA ranking in March, in which Olin jumped 18 places, landing in the world’s top 50.
• The FT’s global ranking of executive MBA programs last month, which placed our Shanghai Executive MBA sixth in the world—up one from the previous year.
• The Economist’s 2018 global ranking of MBA programs, also in October, placed Olin 37th in the world, up six places from the previous year.
• Poets & Quants’ undergraduate ranking in 2017, which placed in the top two in the nation along with Wharton.
• The TFE Times master of finance rankings placed Olin fourth in the US in 2018.

WashU Olin’s full-time MBA program shot up six places in The Economist magazine’s latest global ranking, released today, placing it 37th in the world and 28th among US programs.

Olin’s program made a particularly strong showing among global MBA programs with a 10th-place ranking—up four spots—for the percentage of job-seeking graduates with job offers within three months of graduation.

Olin also placed 11th (up eight spots from last year) for the percentage increase in salary among alumni after graduation.

“This news continues the great story we have to tell at Olin Business School,” said Dean Mark Taylor. “I’m pleased to see our efforts rewarded in the rankings as we build our global standing among top MBA programs—particularly in areas that show the direct impact our students feel on their careers.”

The Economist’s tally builds on a selection of other positive rankings for Olin from business publications recently, including this month’s No. 6 ranking in the Financial Times for Olin’s Shanghai Executive MBA program. WashU Olin was also among the most upwardly mobile schools in the FT’s global MBA ranking in March, jumping nearly 20 places to place in the global top 50.

The Financial Times also ranked our MBA program fourth globally (third in the US, just behind Stanford and Berkeley and just ahead of Harvard) as the best MBA for women.

See more on The Economist‘s website.

WashU Olin’s Executive MBA with Shanghai’s Fudan University ranked No. 6 globally in the latest ranking of EMBA programs published Monday in The Financial Times.

The news comes just days before graduation for the latest cohort of Shanghai-based EMBA students. Commencement for Shanghai Class 16 will be October 26.

“This is great news and reflects the excellent work of our faculty and staff delivering and supporting this program,” said Dean Mark Taylor. “While this is one ranking for one of our programs, it’s indicative of all of the outstanding work going on across all of our programs right now. I very much appreciate the effort that is being made to ensure that we are consistently improving the student experience and innovating our curricular offerings.”

Read more about the Financial Times ranking and see where other schools placed in the measure.

Olin’s executive education programs, spanning the Midwest and the nation’s capital through WashU programming at the Brookings Institution, placed 12th nationally and 32nd in the world in a new Financial Times ranking released Sunday night.

Olin also ranked fourth in the nation in the percentage of women participating in executive education programs, with 47 percent female participation. Olin’s programs also placed highly in terms of program growth, ranking 11th globally and third in the nation. The Times based that metric on revenue growth in open programs as well as growth in revenues from repeat business.

“We help develop business executives at over 150 companies across the nation, amounting to more than 2,000 leaders every year,” said Samuel Chun, assistant dean of executive education and professor of management practice. “We’re gratified that the Financial Times rankings recognizes this, and we’ll strive to increase our reach and impact.”

Olin provides a wide variety of “open enrollment” executive education programs on the St. Louis campus, on topics ranging from marketing strategy and motivating people to emotional intelligence and finance for non-financial managers. The program also encompasses courses through the Brookings Executive Education program, where participants can take courses in leadership, strategic thinking, and leading change, among others.

Olin Executive Education designs content to allow leaders to apply what they’ve learned immediately when they return to work. While Olin frequently draws executives from the St. Louis region, it also works with corporate partners across the nation and around the globe.

Most programs are held at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center on Washington University’s campus. However, the Olin Executive Education team can conduct programs at venues around the world. Since 1993, Olin corporate programs have successfully served thousands of employees from a diverse client base.

Olin placed in the top four globally and top three in the United States in a new Financial Times ranking of the best full-time MBA programs for women, released Sunday night. The WashU MBA program is ranked just behind programs at Stanford and UC Berkeley and just ahead of Harvard’s.

New faculty in 2017. First row, Karam Kang, Xing Huang,
Ashley Hardein; second row, Hannah Perfecto, Zhenyu Liao;
third row, Sydney Scott, Rachel Ruttan.

The release of the ranking was timed for its proximity to this week’s International Women’s Day on Thursday, which Olin will mark by hosting nearly 700 attendees for its special program, “The ‘She’ Suite: Celebrate International Women’s Day with Women in the C-Suite and in Leading Roles.”

“This new ranking gives tremendous affirmation to our efforts to expand women’s voices in Olin’s MBA program,” said Dean Mark Taylor. “It also challenges us to continue the momentum. It’s about fairness, but it’s also about diversity. Diversity drives innovation and appreciating diversity is a core value for Olin.”

Using data gathered from previous rankings, the Financial Times also examined its numbers through several female-centric lenses. For example, Olin ranked first in the US for female percentage increase in salary post MBA and first globally for parity across genders in the starting salary of newly minted MBA graduates. Olin also compared favorably in the percentage of female enrollment, with nearly 40 percent women in the incoming class in 2017—the sixth highest percentage among the top US schools.

“Diversity drives success in business as well as the classroom,” said Olin MBA Shelley Lavender, Boeing senior vice president and head of Boeing’s strike, surveillance and mobility business. “The work Olin is doing to attract women and men from around the globe is ensuring its graduates experience the powerful, profound, and positive impact that diverse teams bring to all aspects of our life.” Lavender also heads Olin’s MBA advisory board.

The news was welcomed by Perri Goldberg, MBA ’18, president of the student-run Olin Women in Business organization, which was named Chapter of the Year at the National Association of Women MBAs Conference in October 2016.

“I am so proud of our school—the admissions effort to attract more female students, our welcoming, collaborative, and inclusive community, the supportive, yet challenging faculty,” said Goldberg. She said the organization has made a priority of collaborating with Olin in creating a welcoming, inclusive environment for both women and men.

“I am confident that this top ranking will attract other strong females and males into the program,” she added, “and I cannot wait to see what our community and OWIB will do in the future.”

Dean Taylor also noted that while the results are encouraging, there are still areas of opportunity. For example, with around a quarter of its faculty female, Olin is about average among the top US schools but is striving to improve: in its most recent round of faculty hiring last year, six of the seven new faculty members were women.

In Poets & Quants‘ second-ever ranking of undergraduate business programs, the online business education site ranked Olin Business School #2.

Released on December 5, this year’s ranking saw an influx of institutions participating, growing from 50 schools in the inaugural ranking to 82 schools, which represent the top 16% of accredited undergraduate business schools in the United States. The ranking includes schools with highly demanding academics—both public and private universities with two- and four-year business programs. Olin was ranked #1 in the 2016 ranking.

“We are very proud to be at the top of Poets & Quants’ undergraduate rankings for the second year in a row. It’s a testament to Olin’s academic excellence and student satisfaction, particularly in a much larger field of top business schools,” said Dean Mark Taylor.

Three key area were considered equally: admission standards, the quality of the academic experience, and employment outcomes. Olin scored in the top ten in all three categories. In fact, in employment outcomes, Olin jumped 6 spots to the #5 position.

• Admissions standards measured average SAT scores, acceptance rates, and the percentage of incoming students who were in the top 10% of their high school classes.
• Student experience measured alumni responses to four questions:
  • 1) Was their degree worth its cost in time and tuition?
  • 2) Did the school’s extracurricular offerings nurture their growth as people and business experts?
  • 3) Were faculty available for mentoring and meetings outside of class?
  • 4) Were alumni approachable and helpful?
• Employment outcomes weighed the percentage of students with internships prior to senior year, the percentage with jobs three months after graduation, and the average salary and bonus of a graduate.

Click here to see Poets & Quants‘ complete survey, methodology, and school profiles.