CORE VALUES: T GOODMAN’S PATH TO BECOMING CANADA’S MOST DIVERSE BUSINESS SCHOOL By Andrew Gaudes
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GOODMAN: THE MAGAZINE
his year we opened ourselves to participating in the QS Global MBA Ranking. This is a process of discovering our strengths and weaknesses; one that allows us to consider how we can leverage both towards better programs and future rankings. Initially, there wasn’t anything apparently extraordinary about the results we received in September. The Goodman School of Business’s overall ranking was in the 200-plus range of the participating 258 business schools around the world. That overall ranking was where one might expect to land on a first-time submission. Indeed, we have room to grow across the ranking indicators and learned a lot by entering our School for consideration. However, when we started to peel back the layers of the survey to review the results of the five indicator groups contributing to an overall score, we discovered Goodman ranked first in Canada for class and faculty diversity. We received this distinction because of the percentage of staff and faculty who are women, the number of nationalities in our classrooms, and the percentage of international faculty in our School. You can view our numbers in these categories in the Goodman Facts and Figures section on Page 14 in this issue of The Magazine. Our score also placed us second in North America and 39th globally. To put this into further perspective, we had a higher diversity score than 23 of the 25 top-ranked business schools around the world; higher than such globally recognized institutions
