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Research is the lifeblood of any great university.

The School’s research mission and strategic goal is to be “recognized through our teaching and research as among the top one percent of full-service, policy-shaping business schools globally.”

To this end, the Alberta School of Business is proud to announce that they have been ranked within the top 100 business schools globally by the Financial Times of London. The School ranked 33rd globally for research, 71st for PhD, and 100th for MBA including #1 in Canada for value for money, and #2 for career placement!

Our ranking within publicly funded universities is even more impressive:

  • Our research ranking is 9th;
  • Our PhD program is 35th;
  • Our MBA program is 56th.

 

Research Impact

As highlighted above, our research impact ranking as a faculty is excellent. In using three key ISI Web of Science areas and comparing them to both our Canadian and US peers, our results are: 

Management

#1 - Canada and #1 - US

Business Finance 

#1 - Canada and #6 - US

Operations Research and Management

#3 - Canada and #6 - US

Key outputs are papers in leading publications. In 2012, we have published 23 through August with 25 forthcoming.

The School is proud to announce their participation in the Management Research Network's Business Research Paper Series. This paper series comprises abstracts and papers on a wide range of business disciplines: Accounting, Business Economics, Finance and Statistical Analysis, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Marketing, Natural Resources and Energy, Operations and Information Systems, and Strategic Management and Organization. To access all the papers in this series, please click here (the library is currently being expanded...check back often to see more research done in the School).

Consortium List of Top Management Journals

Publishing in recognized top journals provides an important signal of quality that is useful in the evaluation of scholarly productivity. This list provides guidance to management scholars regarding what journals are recognized as top outlets for their work. The consortia listing of journals was updated in collaboration with the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia. The list recognizes the widely recognized/elite journals (including top disciplinary journals) as well as other distinguished journals for management scholarship.

                                        Widely Recognized/Elite Journals for Management Scholarship

Academy of Management J*          J of Financial & Quantitative Analysis*      Mathematical Programming
Academy of Management Review*   J of Financial Economics*   Mathematics of Operations Research 
Accounting, Organizations & Society*      J of International Business Studies*   Operations Research*
Accounting Review, The*   J of International Economics   Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes*
Administrative Science Quarterly*   J of Marketing*   Organization Science*
American Economic Review*   J of Marketing Research*   Personnel Psychology
American J of Sociology   J of Monetary Economics   Production & Operations Management*
American Sociological Review  J of Money, Credit & Banking   Psychological Bulletin
Econometrica*  J of Operations Management*  Psychological Science
Information Systems Research*  J of Personality & Social Psychology   Quarterly J of Economics*
J of Accounting & Economics*  J of Political Economy*  Rand J of Economics, The*
J of Accounting Research*  J of Public Economics   Research Policy
J of Applied Psychology*  J of the American Statistical Assoc.*  Review of Economic Studies
J of Consumer Research*  J of Urban Economics  Review of Economics & Statistics 
J of Economic Geography  MIS Quarterly*  Review of Financial Studies*
J of Environmental Economics & Management  Management Science*  Science
Journal of Finance*   Marketing Science*  Strategic Management J*
 

Other Distinguished Journals

 Accounting Horizons                                       Int'l J of Industrial Organization   J of Int'l Money & Finance 
 Annual Review of Sociology   Int'l J of Research in Marketing  J of Law & Economics
 British J of Industrial Relations   J of Accounting, Auditing & Finance  J of Management
 Canadian J of Economics   J of the American Tax Assoc.  J of Management Information Systems
 Contemporary Accounting Research*   J of the Assoc. for Information Systems  J of Management Studies*
 Decision Support Systems   J of Banking & Finance  J of Organizational Behavior*
 Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice*   J of Business & Economic Statistics  J of Retailing
 European J of Information Systems   J of Business Ethics*  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
 European J of Operational Research  J of Business Logistics  Organization Studies*
 Games & Economic Behavior  J of Business Venturing*  Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
 Human Resources Management*  J of Consumer Psychology*  Quantitative Marketing & Economics
 Industrial & Corporate Change  J of Corporate Finance  Real Estate Economics
 Industrial Relations  J of Econometrics  Regional Science & Urban Economics
 Industrial & Labor Relations Review  J of Economic Theory  Review of Accounting Studies*
 Information & Organization  J of Economics & Management Strategy  Review of Economic Dynamics
 Information Systems J  J of Empirical Finance  Social Forces
 INFORMS J on Computing  J of Experimental Social Psychology  Strategic Organization
 International Economic Review  J of Industrial Economics  

Leading Practitioner Journals

Academy of Management Perspectives*
California Management Review*
Harvard Business Review*
Sloan Management Review*

*indicates journal is also on the Financial Times Top 45 list

PhD Program

The PhD program is integral in helping the Alberta School achieve one of its central goals – to be an internationally recognized centre for business research. In the 2013 Financial Times of London ranking, our doctoral program placed 71st globally.