George Mason University Ranked #47 is Best Universities Worldwide for Business List
China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently put together the Academic Ranking of World Universities — a study of faculty and alumni data from 1,200 schools around the world in order to rank these institutions of higher education. In the rankings, George Mason University ranks 47th for economics and business — a testament to the George Mason School of Business.
In addition to the high rank in the world of business, Mason was also ranked among the top 151-200 of the best 500 universities in the world by. It is the eighth year Mason has placed in that tier in the Academic Ranking of World Universities since the rankings began in 2003.
There are multiple determining factors that went into the creation of this list: The number of alumni and faculty who win prestigious awards such as the Nobel Prize, the number of highly cited researchers, the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation and Social Science Citation indexes, and “per capita” performance.
These aren’t the only recent accoldes presented to the school: George Mason’s School of Business has received other prestigious rankings by U.S. News & World Report in the following areas:
- Mason’s online EMBA program is ranked #31 on the “Best Online MBA Programs for Veterans” list and #36 on the “Best Online MBA Programs” list
- Mason’s undergraduate business program is ranked #62 on the “Best Undergraduate Business Programs” list
- Mason’s MBA program is ranked #68 on the “Best Part-time MBA” list
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