Lagos Business School (LBS)
has been ranked as a top
global school by the Financial
Times (FT) of London.
Mrs Aderayo Bankole, LBS
Head, Corporate
Communications made the
disclosure in a statement made
available to the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in
Lagos.
The statement said “this is LBS
eleventh consecutive
appearance in the annual
ranking of top business and
management education
providers in the world done by
FT.”
It stated that LBS was ranked
among the most prestigious
business schools globally in
two categories : open
enrollment and customs
executive education.
The statement said that the
FT’s Executive Education 2017
ranking was published today
in London.
It further stated that LBS was
one of only four schools in
Africa that made the
prestigious list.
Dr Enase Okonedo, Dean of LBS,
was quoted by the statement
as saying that, the school
would remain committed to
providing global standard
business and management
education.
Okonedo said that FT ranking
was in recognition of its
continuous efforts at
providing world class business
and management education
with local relevance to Nigeria
and Africa.
“Our business school’s
determination for excellence
has also recently been
recognised by our
accreditation by the
Association to Advance
Collegiate Schools of Business
(AACSB) and the association of
MBA’s (AMBA)”, she said.
Okonedo on also stated that
the schoolhad been admitting
more non-Nigerian nationals
to its programmes as part of
plans to extend the benefit of
LBS education to other
Africans.
She added that LBS would be
extending its executive
education to other African
countries in the nearest future.
The statement noted that FT
publishes annually a list of the
best management
programmes from business
schools around the world,
based on the quality of
learnings, staff and student
diversity, growth in business
and international reach.
Other schools that made this
year’s ranking apart from LBS,
according to the statement,
were the Harvard Business
School , USA, the IESE Business
School, Spain and IMD in
Switzerland.
Others in Africa include the
Gordon Institute of Business
Science (GIBS), USB Executive
Development and Graduate
School of Business, all in South
Africa.
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