Korea University Business School (Dean=Kim Jaewook) ranked first for the twelfth consecutive year in Hankyung Business Review’s annual appraisal of business schools nationwide. KUBS has established itself as the best domestic business school, not allowing any other school to entrench its place since 2008 when the appraisal first started.
 
The appraisal was co-conducted by Hankyung Business and Global Research by collecting the opinions of HR directors of the 300 largest companies in Korea. The questionnaires distributed for the HR directors consisted of categories such as △the relevance of the school curriculum to the capacity necessary for work, △work adaptability, △ability to assimilate to a team, △potential to grow, △creative problem solving skills,△international system, △diligence and responsibility, △preference for new recruits, △recommendation to admission. Until last year, the score for all the categories were added up to derive results, but for the sake of equity results have been derived by adding up the ranking of each category. The appraisal method changed, but KUBS kept the place of best Business School.

KUBS ranked first for seven categories including △the relevance of the school curriculum to the capacity necessary for work, △work adaptability, △ability to assimilate to a team, △potential to grow, △diligence and responsibility, △preference for new recruits, and △recommendation to admission, also winning the title for the school with the most first-ranked titles. KUBS earned an especially high score for △the relevance of the school curriculum to the capacity necessary for work (650) and △recommendation to admission (629), widening the gap with second-ranked Yonsei University by more than 200 points.

Hankyung Business Review states in its article that the reason why KUBS was highly appraised by the corporate workforce was because it aptly harmonized tradition and change. It also mentioned that KUBS’s procurement of 79 full-time professors, which is the largest number of all domestic universities, winning the title for the largest number of successful CPA candidates for four consecutive years, continuous effort to nurture talents necessary for this era were the causes of its positive appraisal.
Kim Jaewook, Dean of KUBS, delivered that “the strength of KUBS is that we invested in people to strengthen our research ability,” and that KUBS will “benchmark foreign universities which were certified for STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)” and “continuously make efforts to grow in compliance with the needs of the society.”

Meanwhile, the annual Business School Appraisal by Hankyung Business Review welcomed its twelfth year. It is conducted upon 4-year business schools nationwide with more than 100 new students that enter the school, and this year 54 schools were appraised.