Eduniversal
Eduniversal is a university ranking business by the French consulting company and rating agency SMBG specialized in Higher Education. Founded in 1994, one of the main goals of Eduniversal is to provide a tool, for students all around the world, which provides information on the Best Business Schools, located in Eduniversal's 9 geographical regions.
The Eduniversal ranking agency establishes an official selection of the Best 1000 Business Schools in more than 150 countries in the world. The purpose of this selection is to offer students a serious referent that reflects the international dimension of each School, and therefore enables them to make the right decision regarding the choice of their future School.
The official selection is the result of the work of an International Scientific Committee gathered at the initiative of the Eduniversal Company. The International Scientific Committee is composed of 12 members; 9 members coming from nine different geographic zones, and 2 members from the Eduniversal Company.
Globally, it has been presented or referred to by India Today, L'Économiste, La Vie Éco, The Times of India, Sohu, 20 minutos, The Gazette , VietnamPlus, Coventry Telegraph, University World News, Business Line, El Economista , KPBS, The Jamaica Observer, Economico, Głos Wielkopolski, Morocco World News, Business Tech and others.
In France, it has been presented or referred to by Le Monde, Le Figaro, Capital, Le Parisien, L'Étudiant, Studyrama, Capcampus and others.
Methodology
The official selection as it is defined by the Eduniversal Company is the classification of the 1000 best Business Schools in 153 countries in the World. The selection is classified in terms of Palms and Ratings, issued from the Deans' votes.The aim of this official selection is to provide sufficient information for students about a range of academic institutions, sorted by their reputations and international ambitions and located in 9 different zones.
Official Selection
The Official Selection is a selection of Business Schools made by a Scientific Committee that has established a global mapping system meeting the criteria of universality and the international reputation of each academic institution.Eduniversal offers to describe the best academic opportunities for students zone by zone, via a range of schools with different types of reputation and international ambitions, within the nine zones list.
According to the Eduniversal company, the international reputation is the capacity of a Business School to increase the prestige of a student – and therefore improve his employment prospects – in his country of study and on the international stage.
In order to execute the official selection, each country and each continent is represented according to a quota method. The number of schools per country is therefore weighted by quantitative and qualitative criteria.
Quantitative criteria
- the national expenditure on education per inhabitant
- the GDP
- the size of the population
- the number of students in higher education
the educational environment in the country.
The results can therefore be expressed in the following way:
Country | National Expenditure on Education per inhabitant | GDP per inhabitant | Population size in Millions | No. of students in Higher Education | Qualitative Criterion | Schools Quota Results |
Tunisia | $605.10 | $8,898 | 9,815,644 | 26,435 | - | 4 Schools |
Poland | $773.80 | $14,880 | 38,625,478 | 447,785 | - | 12 Schools |
Indonesia | $64.80 | $4,323 | 245,452,739 | 552,660 | - | 7 Schools |
Mexico | $495 | $11,249 | 107,449,525 | 339,450 | - | 17 Schools |
Netherlands | $1,683.70 | $35,078 | 16,318,199 | 89,341 | - | 13 Schools |
The official selection is made by the International Scientific Committee composed of 9 members coming from the nine geographic zones listed above.
The 9 expert members are all well-known academics in their respective zone.
The International Scientific Committee meets:
- to modify the Official Selection, two years after the first Selection, then every four years, depending on changes and global trends.
- yearly, to publish the Palmes arising from international criteria and the votes of the Deans on the website: www.eduniversal.net.
Palmes
They help the student to make his choice within the Official Selection and rate the reputation of the school or university within the country, its geographical zone, or even at the global level.
The Palmes are divided into a league system, which allows horizontal intercontinental comparison, different from the vertical comparison made by most of the international classification systems.
This segmentation is presented as a normal probability curve:
- 100 schools in the 5 Palmes league
- 200 schools in the 4 Palmes league
- 400 schools in the 3 Palmes league
- 200 schools in the 2 Palmes league
- 100 schools in the 1 Palme league
Internalisation criteria
- the accreditations obtained by the schools
- the main classifications
- participation in international academic associations
- the network of partners of Deans and Business Schools at the international and local levels
- reputed studies and sites in the world of education and universities
Each Dean from the universities and schools on the list of 1,000 can vote to recommend the other academic institutions. This vote is converted into a recommendation rate that the student can use to evaluate each academic institution and compare them.
These recommendations give another reply to the question: "Out of the following schools, which ones would you most recommend to a person who wants to study in this country?"