KUBS Alumni, the Largest Ratio Among Korea’s Top 100 Company CEOs Korea University Business School (Dean Soo Young Kwon) is proud to announce that KUBS turned out to has the largest ratio of alumni among current CEOs at 100 most influential companies in Korea, compared to other faculties at Korean universities. The statistics is a part of the CEO evaluation section from ‘2018 Analysis and Evaluation of Korea’s Top 100 CEO & Business’ released by the Korea Economic Daily Business. In particular, KUBS achieved the top rank as a single faculty for two years in a row, affirming its position as the best business school in Korea.   According to the statistics, there are a total of 27 out of 100 CEOs who were majoring in business administration during their bachelor’s degree studies. Among the 27, seven are KUBS alumni and it is the largest proportion as a single faculty at Korean universities. The number of business bachelor’s graduates from Seoul National University came after KUBS with four alumni out of 100. Sungkyunkwan University and Yonsei University had the next best rankings with three and two alumni each.   The list of seven KUBS alumni who are current CEOs at 100 best companies in Korea are △Cheol Young Lee; Vice Chairman & CEO of Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance (Business ’71) △In-Young Lee; President and CEO of Hanon Systems (Business ‘76) △Dae Cheol KIM; CEO of Hyundai Development Company (Business ‘77) △Young Ho Lee; President & CEO of Samsung C&T Corporation, Engineering & Construction Group (Business ‘78) △Sang Shin Pak; CEO of Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd (Business ‘81) △Jung Ho Park; President & CEO of SK Telecom (Business ‘82) △Shin-Ho Kang; Co-Representative Director of CJ Cheiljedang Corporation (Business ‘81).   Followed by the largest number of CEOs at the top 100 companies being business graduates, the next most frequent undergraduate majors the CEOs studied were △Chemical Engineering (6) △Law (5) △English Literature (5) △Electronic Engineering (5) △Economics (4) △public administration (4).   Dean Soo Young Kwon commented, “I am very proud of the result. The ranking demonstrates KUBS’s position as the best business school in Korea. I assure you that KUBS will maintain our position by educating our students to be the future business leaders.” (Picture by the Korea Economic Daily Business)   See more articles (Korean)  한경비즈니스 제1177호

KUBS, “Indisputable No. 1” for 10 Consecutive Years in National Business School Assessment Korea University Business School (KUBS) is ranked first for the tenth consecutive year in the 2017 National Business School Assessment annually conducted by Hankyung Business. KUBS secured its top spot since 2008 and stood at the leading position among business schools in Korea.     ▲Photo=Hankyung Business​ This year’s assessment was surveyed by HR directors of the top 200 companies in 2017, mutually selected by NICE Group and Hankyung Business. The survey was carried out on 55 business schools whose number of admission-accepted students is 100 or more. The assessment was analyzed by Global Research based on nine performance categories: △Job adaptability, △Compatibility with organization, △Development potential, △Creative problem-solving skills, △Globalization system, △Diligence and responsibility, △Recruitment for new employees, and △Entrance into Graduate School.   Of the nine indicators, KUBS demonstrated excellence in △Job adaptability and △Diligence and responsibility. Particularly, the business school outperformed Sungkyunkwan University, which placed second in the assessment, in the job adaptability category with a margin of more than 100 points. KUBS also maintained the top position in the diligence and responsibility category.   Hankyung Business highly praised the efforts of the business school for having 83 professors, Korea’s largest and unbeatable faculty size, and making bold investments in its start-up institute, an independent operating platform, to nurture the next generation of leaders.   In the meantime, KUBS is ranked 1st in Korea and 68th worldwide in the 2018 Times Higher Education’s (THE) business and economics ranking. In the 2018 Best Global Universities Rankings for Economics and Business released by U.S. News & World Report, the business school also placed 1st in the nation and 98th in the world. KUBS is making progress while expanding beyond Korea to compete in a spirit of goodwill with prestigious universities across the globe.   “Korea University is driven by students’ problem-solving skills and creative education, which helps enhance capabilities that companies require,” KUBS Dean Soo Young Kwon said. “Without being complacent with our current achievement, we will do our best to build KUBS into a ‘research-oriented business school joining the Asia’s top 3 and the world’s top 50.’”   View Related Articles  [한경비즈니스] '2017 전국 경영대 랭킹' 커버스토리 기사 인덱스 [종합순위] 고려대 10년째 금빛 질주, '빅5'는 어디? [9개 부문별 순위] 서울대·고려대·연세대(SKY) 성적 가른 '조직 융화력' [고려대 경영대 1위 비결] 고려대, 10년 연속 국내 경영대 1위인 이유 [고려대 경영대학장 인터뷰] 권수영 고려대 경영대학장이 말하는 '고대의 힘' ​[경영대 트렌드]"4차 산업혁명 시대, 글로벌 인재 키우는 경영대학"   ▶한경비즈니스 1149호 E-Book에서 보기(클릭)◀