The University of Queensland's Graduate School of Management ended 1997 with high honours awarded both nationally and internationally.
The Graduate School of Management, one of the largest master of business administration programs in Australia, was ranked 12 in the Top 25 Asian MBA schools in an annual survey undertaken by Hong Kong-based publication ASIA INC.
ASIA INC ranks 80 schools, from 13 countries, that offer full-time, two-year MBA programs. The rankings are based on criteria which include quality of incoming students (28 percent), quality of education (34 percent) and market value of students (38 percent.
In 1996 the University of Queensland Graduate School of Management was ranked 16.
According to the survey the average starting salary for a Queensland University MBA graduate is $49,600 a year against an average for the top 25 Asia Pacific business schools of $36,676.
The MBA School also ranked in the Top 20 of all Asia Pacific business schools according to World Executive Digest, an MBA career guide which surveyed more than 1000 recruiters around the world to rank Asia Pacific business schools.
The School in 1997 also doubled the number of enrolled students from 350 to 700 in fewer than three years and achieved $1.2 million in competitive grants for research funding in 1997, believed to the largest graduate school of business recipient of Australian Research Council funding in 1997.
And according to the 1997 edition of Management Research in Australia published by the National Board of Employment, Education and Training, the University of Queensland Graduate School of Management ranks first in Australia on the basis of management-related doctorate enrolments and third in a comparison of management research output.
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