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Ranking and Accreditation

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is the leading business school in Ireland and competes with the best in Europe.

‘Triple crown’ of Accreditation

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is one of only 25 schools in the world to hold the ‘triple crown’ of accreditation from the three centres of business and academic excellence. These accreditations benchmark us against the best in the world and position UCD Smurfit School on the global map. Attaining these accreditations requires us to continually evaluate and enhance our own courses and programmes.

• AACSB: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International is the USA-based body, which awards accreditation following a review of the quality of Degree programmes delivered by each Management School.
  
• EQUIS: This is the quality improvement system administered by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) throughout Europe. EQUIS is awarded on the basis of quality controls on the entire range of activities within an institution.
  
• AMBA: The Association of MBAs is a British-based organisation which concentrates specifically on MBA programmes and accredits those which reach its standards.
  

Rankings

Economist Intelligence Unit

• Our full-time MBA programme is ranked 40th in the world's top 100 according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. We are the only Irish business school to gain a place in the rankings.
• The Economist also ranked us highly for opening up new career opportunities to our MBA graduates.

Financial Times

• We maintained our presence in the top 100 in the Financial Times’ highly competitive global full-time MBA rankings.
• Our Executive MBA programme is ranked 61st in the world by the Financial Times.

CEMS

UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business is proud to be part of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). This is an alliance of business and higher education. It currently comprises 17 of Europe’s top academic institutions, four non-European academic institutions and over 50 of the world’s leading multinational companies.