International Rankings

The QS ranking

Published annually since 2004, QS World University Rankings® is one of the best known university rankings in the world.

This ranking is based on a number of different factors, each with a separate weight. For more detailed info on 2011 methodology http://iu.qs.com/projects-and-services/world-university-rankings/
The factors are:

• Academic Reputation
• Employer Reputation
• Faculty/student ratio
• Citations per faculty from SciVerse Scopus (the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web resources In English)
• International orientation

Due to its specialized orientation, Bocconi is only present in the Social Science subject ranking.

Methodology overview: http://iu.qs.com/projects-and-services/world-university-rankings/

Ranking: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011/faculty-area-rankings/social-science

FT Rankings

The Financial Times newspaper publishes a number of specialized rankings which do not include universities as a whole but specific programs, business education activities or Business Schools. These are:

1. Global MBA - The FT surveys graduates three years after they have completed the degree, to assess the effect of the MBA on their subsequent career progression and salary growth.
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2. Executive Education - Open enrollment and customized programs - This ranking includes all executive open programs with a minimum duration of 3 days. Open programs are the ones open to employees from any company or organization.
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3. Executive Education - Customized programs - Customized programs are tailor-made programs for organizations that want to offer specific training to employees.
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4. Masters in Management - This is a ranking of pre-experience masters programs in general management. As usual, it is compiled using data from two sets of surveys, one completed by alumni who graduated from the respective programs three years before and the other by the business schools.
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5. Masters in Finance - This is a ranking of pre-experience masters programs in Finance.
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6. European Business Schools - This ranking of rankings is based on the five FT rankings seen above: full-time MBA; the open enrollment and customized non-degree executive education programs; masters in management degrees; and Executive MBA. The European Business Schools result takes into account the number of programs ranked by the FT for each European school and the quality of these programs as assessed by the rankings.
   Published 5th December 2011- 75 business schools in this ranking
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Research Papers in Economics

Finally, from the standpoint of research productivity RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) ranks economists and institutions according to scientific productivity and impact factor). In the RePEc database, a research center at Bocconi, IGIER, was constantly ranked at the top of all Italian research departments in economics since 2008. This ranking includes among others the research department of the Bank of Italy, the European University Institute, EIEF (Einaudi Center in Rome) and the Economics Departments of all other Italian universities. In the 2010 RePEc global ranking, IGIER was the only Italian Institution listed in the top 100 positions in the world.

Link: http://ideas.repec.org/top/