Established in 1916, Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University in New York, and it is one of six Ivy League business schools. It is consistently placed among the leading business schools in the world by a number of magazines including BusinessWeek, Forbes, US News & World Report, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

The School has five Academic Divisions: Accounting; Decision, Risk & Operations; Finance & Economics; Management; and Marketing. It offers the full-time MBA, Executive MBA, Executive education and doctoral programs.

Areas of Focus for the MBA degree program include Accounting; Decision, Risk and Operations; Entrepreneurship; Finance and Economics; Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management; Human Resources Management; International Business; Management/Leadership; Marketing; Media; Private Equity; Real Estate; Social Enterprise; and Value Investing. CBS has outstanding ranking achievements for its Full-Time MBA and EMBA programs.

Rankings:

- 9th in the US News MBA Rankings (2009 and 2010).

- 4th in the QS Top MBA ranking 2009.

- 3rd in the US and 4th globally in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2009.

- 7th in the Business Week ranking of US Full Time MBA programs (2008).

- The EMBA-Global program (the partnership between Columbia Business School and London Business School) is ranked 1st in the world in the rankings of executive MBA programs published by The Financial Times 2008.

- The Columbia’s EMBA-NY program is rated 2nd in the US and 10th in the world (FT 2008).

- The NY-EMBA program is placed 8th, the Berkeley-Columbia program is placed 12th and the Global-EMBA program is placed 13th (Wall Street Journal Executive MBA Rankings, 2008).

- The EMBA-Global program is placed 2nd in the ranking of Top EMBA programs by Whitefield Consulting Worldwide (2008).

- The Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA is rated 3rd in the US and 16th globally (FT 2008).

- 5th in the Los Mejores MBA Globales published by CNN Expansión (2008).

- 3rd in the Princeton Review Selectivity rating (2007).

- 6th in the Aspen Institute Global Rankings 2007.

- 6th in the Forbes Best Business Schools ranking 2007.

- 2nd in the FT Full Time MBA Ranking 2007.

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Kelvin Wong Loke Yuen is a top academician with extensive years of teaching experience. He holds an MBA and a Postgraduate Diploma from Heriot-Watt (UK's World-Class University) and a BCom degree from Adelaide (Australia's Group of Eight University), as well as many other internationally recognized certifications. Check out his profile on: LinkedIn

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