Sustainability MBA Rankings 2011

Sustainability MBA Rankings

For the past few decades, there has been an ever growing importance placed on ethical business and corporate and social responsibility (CSR) throughout the MBA world.

In fact, with the impact of the un-ethical business practices that helped to bring about the global financial crisis of recent years, business schools have, rightly or wrongly faced much criticism over what some commentators saw as a lack of significance of business ethics being taught on MBA programs.

However, for over a decade the Aspen Institute has produced a sustainability-focused MBA ranking, aimed at highlighting the business schools and MBA programs that place importance on the teaching of social and environmental impact within their core MBA course offerings.

Beyond Grey Pinstripes: the sustainability MBA ranking

The Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes sustainability MBA ranking is unique in that it “celebrates coursework, research and activities that prepare MBAs for social, ethical and environmental stewardship.”

The MBA ranking is designed to not only highlight the institutions that are helping to promote the idea of ethics and impact in business, but also as an aid for MBA applicants interested in sustainability, CSR or ethics to select programs that are most aligned with their business goals.

The ranking identifies business schools which are best at preparing their students for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business. Results are based on four ‘raw score’ metrics; availability of relevant courses (20%), student exposure (25%), relevant courses on for-profit business (30%), and faculty research (25%). The full methodology of the Beyond Grey Pinstripes sustainability MBA ranking is available on the Aspen Institute’s website.

The Aspen Institute states that its main evaluation criteria in deciding its Beyond Grey Pinstripes sustainability MBA ranking are:

Required and elective courses with innovative content addressing social, ethical and environmental impact issues, especially in the context of for-profit business,
Faculty research on social, ethical and environmental topics published in peer-reviewed business journals.

TopMBA.com is proud to be able to help the Aspen Institute in spreading the sustainability MBA ranking’s message by re-publishing them. You can view the original Beyond Grey Pinstripes sustainability MBA ranking here.

Sustainability MBA Rankings - Beyond Grey Pinstripes

Country Code	School Name	Overall Rank	Relevant Coursework Rank	Student Exposure Rank	Business Impact Rank	Faculty Research Rank
USA	Stanford Graduate School of Business	1	2	24	1	4
CAN	York (Schulich)	2	1	13	2	1
ESP	IE Business School	3	9	1	7	46
USA	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	4	5	65	5	2
USA	Yale School of Management	5	3	30	5	17
USA	Northwestern (Kellogg)	6	6	34	2	14
USA	U. of Michigan (Ross)	7	11	62	7	5
USA	Cornell (Johnson)	8	7	6	20	34
USA	U. of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	9	15	49	4	19
USA	UC Berkeley (Haas)	10	12	71	13	10
USA	GWU School of Business	11	16	36	11	29
ESP	ESADE Business School	12	7	28	20	34
USA	Columbia Business School	13	13	83	14	9
USA	Portland State U. School of Business Admin.	14	36	22	10	39
USA	U. of Denver (Daniels)	15	9	16	14	62
USA	San Francisco State University	16	28	14	18	31
USA	Wisconsin School of Business	17	28	92	11	8
USA	Simmons School of Management	18	25	2	37	62
NED	RSM Erasmus	19	34	68	37	2
USA	Loyola U. Chicago Graduate School of Business	20	17	3	70	42
USA	U. of Colorado at Boulder (Leeds)	21	24	15	33	27
USA	NYU (Stern)	22	4	64	27	30
USA	Willamette (Atkinson)	23	14	23	7	124
CAN	U. of British Columbia (Sauder)	24	18	61	52	6
USA	Duquesne (Donahue)	25	48	4	14	90
AUS	Griffith Business School	26	83	26	37	6
USA	Colorado State University - College of Business	27	100	7	23	31
USA	McCombs School of Business, Univ. of Texas at Austin	28	19	97	18	25
GER	ESMT	29	51	17	14	71
USA	U. of South Carolina (Moore)	30	23	54	33	21
ESP	U. of Navarra (IESE)	31	33	29	60	11
USA	Illinois State University College of Business	32	59	56	23	18
USA	Monterey Institute of International Studies	33	26	10	20	127
USA	Rutgers Business School	34	51	46	60	12
CAN	U. of Calgary (Haskayne)	35	27	32	70	31
USA	The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	36	46	107	27	14
USA	U. of Maryland (Smith)	37	22	80	37	46
USA	Brandeis (Heller)	38	56	5	37	115
USA	U. of San Diego School of Business Admin.	39	46	20	46	62
FRA	INSEAD	40	44	123	23	12
FIN	U. of Jyväskylä School of Business and Econ.	41	51	33	46	50
CAN	Concordia (John Molson)	42	66	27	70	19
USA	Vanderbilt (Owen)	43	36	76	37	39
USA	Wake Forest (Babcock)	44	21	72	27	71
GBR	Nottingham University Business School	45	63	39	60	23
USA	The Neeley School of Business at TCU	46	39	73	52	24
GBR	University of Exeter Business School	47	90	25	33	55
AUS	Melbourne Business School	48	60	35	52	45
USA	Georgetown (McDonough)	49	44	94	37	34
GBR	Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University	50	79	9	52	80
USA	U. of New Mexico (Anderson)	51	60	37	70	27
PHI	Asian Institute of Management	52	28	60	27	111
USA	U. of Colorado at Denver Business School	53	36	51	37	82
USA	U. of Virginia (Darden)	54	63	108	23	43
USA	Ohio State (Fisher)	55	35	86	60	38
USA	UC Davis Graduate School of Management	56	28	38	60	82
USA	Thunderbird School of Global Management	57	48	53	46	67
USA	Bentley (McCallum)	58	20	121	70	22
USA	Kansas State University College of Business Admin.	59	70	57	60	39
USA	U. of Oregon (Lundquist)	60	69	50	27	90
USA	University of South Florida St Petersburg	61	79	11	70	92
USA	Masagung Graduate School of Management, USF	62	28	91	70	50
USA	Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead)	63	42	41	85	60
GBR	Ashridge Business School	64	100	40	46	71
RSA	U. of Stellenbosch Business School	65	70	21	52	117
USA	Babson (Olin)	66	39	118	27	71
FRA	Audencia Nantes School of Management	67	76	19	111	49
USA	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	68	66	58	70	58
USA	U. of Southern California (Marshall)	69	51	106	52	54
CHN	CEIBS	70	56	85	70	60
USA	Katz Graduate School of Business, UP	71	39	12	85	133
USA	Arizona State (W.P. Carey)	72	70	42	96	55
DEN	Copenhagen Business School	73	92	52	52	97
USA	Georgia State University (Robinson)	74	113	105	70	25
USA	Western Washington U. College of Business and Econ.	75	66	93	46	111
USA	Michigan Tech. U. School of Business and Econ.	76	117	18	70	124
PER	Centrum, Pontificia Universidad Catolica	77	74	45	85	97
USA	Boston U. School of Management	78	70	112	37	97
NOR	Norwegian University of Life Sciences	79	83	70	46	119
AUS	Curtin University GSB	80	105	44	111	52
USA	Lamar University College of Business	81	76	47	96	82
USA	Seattle University (Albers)	82	92	87	60	87
KOR	KAIST Graduate School of Management	83	42	131	33	119
USA	Villanova U. School of Business	84	79	101	129	14
USA	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	85	55	78	70	119
USA	Clark University GSM	86	105	130	60	44
GER	WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management	87	63	84	85	92
COL	Universidad de Los Andes	88	92	89	85	71
USA	Oregon State U. College of Business	89	113	88	85	55
USA	UT Dallas School of Management	90	48	96	111	71
USA	Illinois Institute of Technology (Stuart)	91	79	98	70	97
USA	U. of Detroit Mercy College of Business Admin.	92	90	59	96	106
USA	Rice University, Jesse H Jones GSB	93	83	133	85	46
USA	U. of Vermont School of Business Admin.	94	107	43	129	62
USA	Seattle Pacific U. School of Business and Econ.	95	56	79	96	124
GBR	University of Glasgow Business School	96	111	63	111	71
MEX	EGADE Tecnologico de Monterrey	97	107	110	85	67
AUS	La Trobe University, Graduate School of Management	98	121	113	70	67
USA	Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University	99	74	125	60	106
MEX	IPADE Business School	100	60	67	96	127
Source: The Aspen Institute

Sustainability MBA Rankings 2011

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