Methodology Eduniversal Ranking

I) The Official Selection of the best 1,000 Business Schools in the world

II) Palms classification: 5 leagues to indicate the level of an academic institution’s international reputation

III) The ratings originating from the Deans' vote

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The Official Selection is a selection of Business Schools made by a Scientific Committee that has established a global mapping system meeting the criteria of universality and the international reputation of each academic institution.

Each country and each continent is represented according to a quota method. The number of schools per country is therefore weighted by
quantitative and qualitative criteria.

EDUNIVERSAL's International Scientific Committee, responsible for the Official Selection, is made up of a group composed of 12 members.

The International Scientific Committee meets :
- to modify the Official Selection, two years after the first Selection­, then every four years, depending on changes and global trends
- yearly, to publish the Palms arising from international criteria and the votes of the Deans on the website : www.eduniversal.net

The EDUNIVERSAL Palms indicate the level of an academic institution's international reputation. They are awarded on the basis of the research work carried out by the International Scientific Committee, which compiles the list of criteria, together with the assessments made by peers: The Deans' vote.

They help the student to make his choice within the Official Selection and rate the reputation of the school or university within the country, its geographical zone, or even at the global level.

The subdivision of the Palms into leagues allows horizontal intercontinental comparison, different from the vertical comparison made by most of the international classification systems.

The classification by Palms is made using two essential elements :

The internationalisation criteria :

- the accreditations obtained by the schools (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA, State Qualification, etc.);
- the main classifications (Financial Times, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Business Week, Asiaweek, Wall Street Journal, America savings, THES, SMBG, etc.);
- participation in international academic associations (EFMD, CLADEA, CEEMAN, EMBA, AAPBS, etc.);
- the network of partners of Deans and Business Schools at the international and local levels;
- reputed studies and sites in the world of education and universities;
- see more about internationalisation criteria.

The Deans' vote

The vote is the element that distinguishes Eduniversal. The Schools and Universities in the official selection are therefore subjected to the assessment of their academic peers throughout the world.

Each Dean from the universities and schools on the list of 1,000 can vote to recommend the other establishments. Country par country, the 1,000 Deans or Directors of each establishment give their opinion concerning the schools in the selection.

This vote is converted into a recommendation rate that the student can use to evaluate each establishment and compare different establishments.