Sept. 17 – “The Bocconi University was founded as an opening to modernity, as an act of faith in progress and in its close relationship to the advancement of knowledge, always in dialogue with the outside world.” And Bocconi continues to rise in international rankings with new recognitions for the quality of its teaching system and the positive feedback of its graduates in the international labor market. The university earned six positions in the Masters in Management 2013 ranking, published by the Financial Times, and is now placed 17th in the world. Bocconi is also present with the CEMS program, of which it is a founding partner, ranking 7th. The ranking focused almost exclusively on the university’s MSc in International Management, a two-year degree course taught in English, first launched in 2006 and debuting in the FT in 2010 in 33rd place. The evaluation is based on a number of criteria, including the graduates’ international mobility, the students’ international experience during the two-year period, and the graduates’ progress in terms of salary and career. A separate ranking is based on the evaluation of teaching quality by its students, for which Bocconi came in 10th place for the quality of the teaching in Finance and Marketing. “These results for the Masters in Management – explains the University in a note – follow the recent good news that Bocconi is also appreciated by employers and the market in general. In the 2013 QS World University ranking, published last week, Bocconi had risen 17 places in the social sciences and management category, ranking 29th in the world and 9th in Europe. In June, the Master of Science in Finance at Bocconi went up 7 positions in the Financial Times ranking, landing in 20th place.” According to the FT, the podium goes to the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, ESCP Europe (currently composed of 5 campuses in 5 different countries in Europe: Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid and Turin) and Whu Beisheim Germany.
