MBS and AGSM in top 50 MBAs for entrepreneurship

Two Australian MBAs are named in the world’s top 50 for entrepreneurship.

Ten per cent of entrepreneurs from AGSM’s MBA degree are women.

In today’s Higher Ed Daily Brief: entrepreneurship MBAs, French research exchange

Two in top 50

Two Australian degrees have been named in the Financial Times 2018 global top 50 MBAs for entrepreneurship. Melbourne Business School’s MBA is at number 42 and the AGSM MBA at UNSW Business School is 43rd.

This ranking measures how well MBAs are at nurturing entrepreneurs. It also checks what proportion of new start-ups established by MBA graduates are still operating three years after they graduate. The data shows that 19 per cent of MBS MBA grads launched a start-up company (with 83 per cent still operating), compared to 29 per cent of AGSM MBA grads having launched a start-up (with 45 per cent still operating). Ten per cent of ASGM entrepreneurs were female, compared to 8 per cent at MBS.

The ranking also measures how successful entrepreneurs were at attracting private investment, and how well the business school and the alumni network supported them.

The top five entrepreneurship MBAs world-wide were Stanford, Babson College (Olin), Dartmouth College (Tuck), Lancaster University Management School and City University (Cass) in that order.

Up, up and away

The Group of Eight universities have pulled in Governor-General Peter Cosgrove and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann for high level approbation of their hoped for agreement with Airbus for an exchange of research students. The two have witnessed a letter of intent which Group of Eight chair Ian Jacobs has just signed in Paris with the aircraft maker. It sets out a plan for a pilot program which will “ideally allow” Go8 research students to work within French universities in close collaboration with Airbus, with similar opportunities for French research students in Australia.

There is not yet an agreement, just an intention to work on an agreement, so let’s hope all the high level firepower assembled in Paris for the signing pays off. The Go8 is confident. “We appreciate the Airbus faith in the quality of Go8 students, and we are sure of achieving positive outcomes. We are also positive other companies will join Airbus in supporting the program,” says Go8 chief executive Vicki Thomson.