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Rabat – The Financial Times (FT) recently ranked the master in management (MiM) program at the Rabat Business School, part of the International University of Rabat (UIR), 86th globally. It is the sole Arab and African management program for graduate students featured in the FT’s top 100 list.
The FT ranking of masters in management evaluates faculty salaries, the program’s “value for money,” and gender and international diversity among students and faculty.
This year, female cohorts made up at least 50% of the student body at roughly half of the ranked business schools’ programs. But leading the list on the gender metric is China’s Tongji University of Economics and Management, where female students represent 77% of the total cohort.
However, female representation among faculty members remains low with only 14% of the ranked schools having an equal gender distribution among faculty, says FT. The global female-to-male ratio among faculty members ranges from 5% in Indore’s Indian Institute of Management and 54% at Mumbai’s NMIMS.
The general trends related to gender diversity were slightly reversed at the Rabat Business School, with female students representing only 38% of the cohort and female teachers constituting 33% of the faculty body.
As for international diversity, FT found that international students make up more than half of the intake at 44 ranked schools. Singapore Management University topped the list on the diversity front, with 98% of its students coming from overseas. In contrast, India’s master’s in management programs, which are widely known for their competitive entry requirements, had no foreign students.
Rabat Business School stands between the two extremes, with 27% of its students coming from foreign countries. The percentage is disproportionate considering that 69% of the school’s faculty members are foreigners.
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Whether students at Rabat Business School are Moroccans or foreigners and taught by Moroccan or foreign professors, they have a high chance (83%) of securing a job within a three-month window from graduation, says FT.
According to the magazine, the ranked schools had “strong success in developing employability with more than two-thirds reporting that at least 90 percent of graduates secured jobs within three months of completing the MiM .”
While Rabat Business School is the only Arab and African university featured on FT’s ranking, European business schools dominated the list. French institutions offer four of the 11 top-tier management programs and almost a quarter of the leading 100 in the ranking.
However, Switzerland’s St Gallen maintained its number 1 ranking for the 12th consecutive year despite fierce competition from France’s HEC Paris, ESCP, Essec, and EMLyon, as well as business schools from the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, and Germany.
