{"id":769229,"date":"2024-04-24T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=769229"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:19:31","slug":"this-south-african-mba-just-ranked-among-the-best-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/769229\/this-south-african-mba-just-ranked-among-the-best-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"This South African MBA just ranked among the best in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Milpark Business School is the first-ever African business school to feature on the QS Online MBA Rankings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 edition of the rankings from global business education analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds catalogues the world&#8217;s best business schools. It examines four metrics: Employability, Class Profile, Faculty and teaching,\u00a0and\u00a0Class Experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imperial College Business School in London took the number one spot globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imperial was named the world leader for Employability and Class experience, the latter of which assesses the level and quality of student support an institution provides its online students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year&#8217;s joint winners, Spain&#8217;s IE Business School and England&#8217;s Warwick Business School, came in second and third, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Milpark Business School is the first-ever\u00a0African\u00a0business school to feature in the rankings, debuting in the 76-100 band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milpark came 85th in the Faculty and Teaching metric, 97th in the Class Profile, 63rd in Employability, and joint 56th in Class Experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rankings from QS can be found below (mobile users click <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/QS-WOrld-Rankings-Milpark.pdf\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/QS-WOrld-Rankings-Milpark.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Shift in learning <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQS continues to analyse and identify trends in business education, particularly the rapid expansion of virtual learning,&#8221; said Nunzio Quacquarelli,&nbsp; President and Founder of QS Quacquarelli Symonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This more flexible option is flourishing and will represent a major consideration for budding business leaders and employers as professionals strive to balance their careers with education without compromising quality.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JSE-listed <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/761077\/south-africans-are-flocking-to-private-universities-with-a-twist\/\">Stadio Holdings<\/a>, the owner of Milpark Education, said that its number of distance learning students has increased significantly, growing by 11% to 40,689 as of 31 December 2023 (December 2022: 36,764).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStrong demand in professional qualifications continues to drive strong growth in registrations for the period,\u201d said Stadio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Group\u2019s distance learning student numbers are still impacted by the legacy business-to-business (B2B) Milpark Education business offerings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cExcluding the impact of the B2B business, the distance learning student numbers grew by 17% to 30,419 as of 31 December 2023.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milpark Education is now repositioning itself to become less reliant on its B2B business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/769214\/the-dark-cloud-hanging-over-south-africas-head\/\">Bad news for MBA graduates looking for work in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private university in South Africa has become the first ever African institution to be included in a global ranking of the best online business schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":664783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,17677,13776],"class_list":["post-769229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-milpark-education","tag-qs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769315,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769229\/revisions\/769315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}