Unimy, the global MBA matching and connections platform by Advent Group, is revolutionizing business education rankings with the launch of its 360° MBA Ranking in December 2023.
This is the first ranking that puts the MBA candidates’ priorities at the center, allowing them to rank schools by the criteria most important to them - Career Outcomes, Diversity, Faculty, Acceptance Rate, and School Culture. This personalized approach makes the 360° MBA Ranking a truly unique resource.
Business school culture, shaping the overall student experience, is an innovative key feature of the 360° MBA Ranking. The unique school culture ranking data builds on Unimy’s proprietary global research on learning environments, campus life, and organizational culture, conducted through surveys of alumni, current students, faculty, and administration.
About Unimy: The MBA Matching & Connections Platform
Launched in 2018 by Advent Group, Unimy’s mission is to help MBA candidates worldwide find the best-matching business and management programs online.
Innovative by design, Unimy makes the most of Advent Group’s 20+ years of human expertise in matching MBA candidates and business schools globally in person and online.
Coupled with AI, advanced technology, and research, Unimy provides highly personalized services, school selection tools, MBA news, guidance and insight.
What is the Unimy 360° MBA Ranking methodology?
Unimy's 360° MBA Ranking draws upon information from two prominent sources: the Financial Times MBA Rankings and the US News & World Report rankings. In addition, the 360° MBA Ranking integrates Unimy's proprietary School Culture data.
Five criteria form the basis of each school's ranking.
- School Culture – Unimy’s Cultural Fit Index
- Career Outcomes - salary increase, career goal attainment, graduate employment rate
- Diversity - proportion of international students, faculty, and board members, proportion of female students, faculty, and board members
- Faculty - academic qualifications of instructors and professors
- Acceptance Rate – program selectivity
The information regarding career outcomes, diversity, and faculty is sourced from the Financial Times MBA rankings. Acceptance rate data are drawn from US News & World Report rankings. Cultural Fit data draws from Unimy's proprietary research on business school culture (The Cultural Fit Index).
Users can reorder these five criteria by priority and assign a significance level of 0 to 3 stars to each. If School Culture is among their top four priorities the users complete the Cultural Fit Test to incorporate insights about the learning environment and campus culture.
This method enables each prospective student to generate a personalized list of schools ranked according to the student’s priorities.
All personalized candidate rankings conducted throughout the previous year determine each school's final position in the annual ranking.
What makes the Unimy 360° MBA Ranking unique?
- Candidate-centered ranking
This is the first ranking methodology that enables candidates to rank schools on a dynamic set of criteria according to their priorities.
- School insights on candidate preferences
Analysis of the anonymized candidate ranking data reveals the latest trends in MBA candidate preferences and can inform schools strategic decision-making.
Ranking Timeline
February – April: Ranking data updates
May (the following year): Announcing the annual global 360° MBA Ranking results
