Publications
Partners
Cape Town - Four of South Africa’s top Business schools have been listed in the prestigious 2014 Financial Times global ranking for Executive Education Customised Programmes, released this week.
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs), Stellenbosch Business School (USB) and Wits Business School have each secured a spot in this annual ranking.
It tracks the top business schools in this category and presents a global benchmark for providers of executive education.
In this year's rankings for customised programmes GIBS ranks 53rd, followed by the GSB at 64th and USB at 68th. Wits also joins the customised rankings for the first time in 78th place.
In the rankings for open programmes GIBS ranks 42nd, followed by the USB at 61st and Wits in 62nd place.
The Financial Times runs several business school rankings each year including for the MBA, Executive MBA and for open Executive Education programmes.
South African schools feature in several of the rankings. UCT GSB is the only African school to feature in the MBA ranking and has been ranked there for 10 years.
New director
Prof. Piet Naudé, deputy vice-chancellor responsible for teaching and learning at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, has been appointed as director at the USB.
He has more than twenty years of management experience at a university.
Naudé has received numerous awards nationally and internationally. He is an active public and conference speaker, a consultant on value-driven organisations to many national companies, and a column writer for the last decade.
In 2011, he was named the Vodacom Journalist of the Year.
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs), Stellenbosch Business School (USB) and Wits Business School have each secured a spot in this annual ranking.
It tracks the top business schools in this category and presents a global benchmark for providers of executive education.
In this year's rankings for customised programmes GIBS ranks 53rd, followed by the GSB at 64th and USB at 68th. Wits also joins the customised rankings for the first time in 78th place.
In the rankings for open programmes GIBS ranks 42nd, followed by the USB at 61st and Wits in 62nd place.
The Financial Times runs several business school rankings each year including for the MBA, Executive MBA and for open Executive Education programmes.
South African schools feature in several of the rankings. UCT GSB is the only African school to feature in the MBA ranking and has been ranked there for 10 years.
New director
Prof. Piet Naudé, deputy vice-chancellor responsible for teaching and learning at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, has been appointed as director at the USB.
He has more than twenty years of management experience at a university.
Naudé has received numerous awards nationally and internationally. He is an active public and conference speaker, a consultant on value-driven organisations to many national companies, and a column writer for the last decade.
In 2011, he was named the Vodacom Journalist of the Year.
