Ranked No. 86 in 2012 UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings, rose 9 steps comparing to 2011

KUBS ranked No. 86 in 2012 UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings. Last year, KUBS was the first Korean university to rank in top 100 schools (No. 95), and was raised 9 steps to No. 86 this year.

From 1990, UTD Ranking announces the results as Naveen Jindal School of Management (University of Texas at Dallas) sums up the number of papers listed in 24 global best business journals. The ranking is the database of all published papers in business field journal of global authority, and is being used as the core index for many international institutions' university evaluation. Points for the papers published in recent 5 years (1 point per 1 paper) and conversion points reflecting the number of co-authors, multiple affiliation and etc are summed up to decide the ranks.

This year, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ranked No. 1, followed by Harvard Business School as No. 2. In Asia, 9 universities including Korea University (No. 86), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (No. 17), National University of Singapore (No. 42), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (No. 60) and others were ranked within top 100.

For other Korean universities, Yonsei University ranked No. 155, Seoul National University as No. 193, Sungkyunkwan University as No. 221, and KAIST as No. 301.

KUBS Dean Jin Kyu Lee said "this outcome means that KUBS is rising toward the world-best business school, not only the best in Korea." He also mentioned that KUBS will continuously make efforts to strengthen its core abilities such as educational infrastructure, high level of research, education programs and more in order to rank within global top 50 in the future.