Purdue University's Krannert School of Management's international executive MBA degree program placed 11th worldwide in the latest rankings released by Financial Times.

The ranking was up one place from 2006. The publication ranked the International Master's in Management No. 6 among programs with a United States partner school. The program is a collaboration among the Krannert School; TIAS/Nimbas in the Netherlands; Central European University in Budapest, Hungary; and the GISMA Business School in Hannover, Germany and has consistently ranked among Financial Times' top 20 programs in recent years. Prior to the No. 12 ranking last year, the program ranked No. 16 in 2005, 11th in 2004 and 14th in 2003.

"The continuous top-20 ranking in this international survey affirms that the world business marketplace knows about and values graduate education at Krannert," said Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School dean and Leeds Professor of Management. "It shows our strategy to prepare graduates to compete globally is working."
 

As many of you know, we currently have 36 master's students taking a two-week short program at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management in Beijing. They are accompanied by Professor Kwei Tang and Sara Stein-Koch. (We have undergraduate students leaving for China on Saturday.)

We spoke via telephone with Kwei, and the students are on a field trip to a factory and did not feel the earthquake earlier today (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/index.html). Sara was in the hotel and could feel it to a small extent. All of our students are safe; the students being referred to in news reports this morning are those at a high school near the epicenter. The earthquake was centered around 950 miles away from Beijing.