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QS MBA by Career Specialisation Rankings: Methodology
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Updated UpdatedThe QS MBA by Career Specialisation Rankings build upon the QS Global MBA Rankings by empowering candidates to consider MBA programmes from a specific career outcome perspective. We closely look at the following indicators across seven industrial and functional specialisations.
Data Collection
Data is collected from the long-standing QS Global Employer Survey, QS Business School Survey and Elsevier’s Scopus database, the world’s largest repository of academic journal data.
Methodology
The QS MBA by Career Specialisation Rankings are made up of three broad categories, which are comprised of six indicators that are weighted differently based on the specialisation in question.
Career Placements is represented by a score that combines insights on the percent of graduates from an MBA programme going into a relevant industry, function or starting their own business. This is balanced by an absolute placement score, which balances class size against the proportional outcome statistics.The employment outcome data conforms to the MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance (CSEA), Standards Edition VI, for reporting MBA employment statistics. This category aims to measure the career outcomes of respective specialisations in the business schools ranked.
Specialisation
Career Placements
Industry Placement
Functional Placement
Entrepreneurial Placement
Consulting
Consulting
Entrepreneurship
% of class starting
a business
Finance
Financial Services
Information
Management
Technology
Marketing
Marketing/Sales
Operations
Management
Operations/Logistics
Technology
Technology
Employer Reputation is derived from responses to the last five years of our prestigious QS Global Employer Survey, with the most recent years weighted higher. Our QS Employer Survey asks employers to identify those institutions from which they source the most competent, innovative, effective graduates.
Our survey responses quantify the importance of various MBA specialisations and skillsets, as well as the relevance of specific functions in the hiring process. This category measures the employer reputation of specific business schools based on how important a given specialisation is to the company in question.
Specialisation
Employer Reputation
MBA Programme
Specialisation
Skills
Functions
Consulting
Consultant
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Finance
Finance Skills
Finance - Advisory; Finance - Other
Information
Management
Information
Management
IT / Technology
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing
Operations
Management
Operations
Management
Supply Chain / Logistics
Technology
Innovation
IT / Technology; e-commerce
Research Strength is a combination between the full-time MBA research and the specialisation MBA research. Both scores are calculated from SCOPUS data on research productivity. The category aims to measure how strongly each school in the targeted business discipline is associated with respective specialisation.
Specialisation
Research Strength
Specific SCOPUS discipline
Consulting
Strategy and Management
Entrepreneurship
Management of Technology and Innovation
Finance
Finance
Information Management
Management Information Systems
Marketing
Marketing
Operations Management
Management Science and Operations Research
Technology
Management of Technology and Innovation
Finally, the combined final score of the noted indicators are weighted alongside the overall score from the most recent global MBA ranking, which contributes 25% to the final specialisation score.
Indicator Weights
The specialisation weights associated with the indicators noted above vary by specialisation according to data relevance and availability. The specific inputs used to derive scores are written in details in subject-specific methodology. We have given different weights to indicators to reflect the industrial or functional or entrepreneurial nature of the career choices, and to distinguish the seven specialisation subjects from one another.
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