̽̽’s Sustainable Innovation MBA (SI-MBA) in the Grossman School of Business, continues to bolster its reputation as one of the world’s top sustainable business MBA programs, as for the fourth year in-a-row, the program claimed a top 10 spot in the Better World MBA rankings compiled by leading sustainable business magazine Corporate Knights.
In 2018, 2019, 2020 and now 2021, the program was ranked in the Top 10. In addition, SI-MBA was the second highest rated U.S. based school in the 2021 Corporate Knights rankings.
“We are pleased to be recognized by Corporate Knights for our work on reinventing business as a force for good,” says Caroline Hauser, director of the Sustainable Innovation MBA.
“It is fortunate we enjoy such an incredible network of support as we equip tomorrow’s changemakers with the knowledge and skills needed to address pressing global challenges like climate change, inequality, and environmental degradation through the lens of business and entrepreneurship.”
This fall, the program enrolled the largest cohort in its history, reflecting increased demand for an interdisciplinary curriculum that equips students to purposefully lead in fields beyond sustainability by building their experience in core business functions, with sustainability integrated throughout.
“Every MBA program in the world should be instilling holistic purpose in leaders, ensuring they have the skills, tools and values to build a more inclusive, healthier economy that’s beneficial to society and in harmony with the natural world, and the Better World business schools are leading the way,” said Toby Heaps, CEO of Corporate Knights.
To determine the ranking, Corporate Knights evaluated 147 MBA’s, including the 2021 Financial Times 100 Global MBA programs, every program that made the 2020 Top 40 in the Corporate Knights Better World MBA Ranking, and select MBA programs accredited by AMBA, AACSB or EQUIS, and/or signatories of the Principles for Responsible Management Education that opted in for evaluation.
From this starting universe, programs are evaluated across key performance indicators including core course integration of sustainability, research publications per faculty member on sustainability topics in calendar year 2020, percent of total faculty publications in 2020 on sustainability topics, number of citations per faculty for those publications, sustainability-focused research institutes and centers, faculty gender diversity and faculty racial diversity.
Details of the evaluation method are available on Corporate Knights’ .