MBA South Africa rankings -Based on the best business schools
PMR.africa conducts annual national survey on Accredited Business Schools offering MBA degrees in South Africa.
The respondents (employers) rate the MBA graduates and students in the workplace representing accredited Business Schools across 19 attributes/criteria (on a scale of 0.00 – 10.00; where 0.00 = poor, 5.00 = average and 10.00 = outstanding), namely:
19 attributes are measured:
- Academic knowledge
- Application of knowledge in the workplace
- Communication skills/abilities
- Emotional intelligence
- Entrepreneurial skills/capacity/abilities
- Environmental awareness
- Ethical business conduct
- Financial management
- Human resource management
- Implementation of corporate governance
- Information management
- Innovation
- Insight into sound sustainable development
- International perspective
- Leadership skills/abilities
- Marketing management
- Operational management
- Quantitative abilities/skills
- Strategic management
2016
| SA Rank | Business school | Mean Average of 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) – University of South Africa (UNISA | 8.22 |
| 2 | Milpark Business School | 8.10 |
| 3 | The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) | 8.00 |
| 4 | Henley Business School, Africa | 8.00 |
| 5 | Regenesys Business School, Johannesburg | 7.90 |
| 6 | MANCOSA School of business | 7.86 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business & Leadership – University of KwaZulu-Natal | 7.80 |
| 8 | University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB) | 7.80 |
| 9 | Regent Business School | 7.80 |
| 10 | Rhodes Business School | 7.72 |
| 11 | NWU School of Business & Governance | 7.65 |
| 12 | Wits Business School – University of the Witwatersrand | 7.30 |
| 13 | University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) | 7.16 |
| 14 | Tshwane University of Technology Business School | 7.12 |
| 15 | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Business School | 7.00 |
| 16 | School of Management – University of the Free State | 6.64 |
| 17 | Turfloop Graduate School of Leadership – University of Limpopo | 6.39 |
