Congratulations on the deserved reward!
Almaty Management University (AlmaU, earlier IAB) was awarded by Eduniversal ranking agency * – “4 palmes” for 2015, which approves AlmaU’s title as the best business-university in Kazakhstan and Central Asia!
The results of the rating were officially announced on the 8th worldwide convention EDUNIVERSAL, held in Harvard University, in Boston (USA) on October 12-15, 2015. The award was received by the vice-rector of science and strategic development Daniya Assanova on behalf of AlmaU.
Firstly the award “Three palmes” was awarded to International Academy of Business (as AlmaU was used to be called), according to the outcomes of 2008. This title has been approved every year until 2013, when IAB firstly got “4 palmes”. Since then AlmaU has been getting 4 palmes, which fits with the level of “top business school with significant international influence”. According to the number of received palmes, the participants of the ranking are divided on: business-schools with significant local influence (1 palme), good business-schools with strong regional influence (2 palmes), excellent business-schools with strengthening international influence (3 palmes), top business-schools with significant international influence (4 palmes) and universal business-schools with strong global influence (5 palmes).
Via getting the fourth palmes in Eduniversal ranking in 2013, AlmaU entered the top-300 of the best business universities of the world. By the way, only two Kazakhstan business-universities are honored to be the part of Eduniversal ranking – KIMEP and AlmaU. So, 4 palm branches, with the result of 146% were awarded to Almaty Management University; 2 palm branches, with the result of 42% - to KIMEP University – Bang College of Business.
Source: http://www.eduniversal-ranking.com/business-school-university-ranking-in-kazakhstan.html
*Global ranking agency in the sphere of higher education Eduniversal (France, Paris) annually sums up the ranking of thousands of the best business-schools and also 4 thousand best master and MBA-programmes in 154 countries of the world. Ranking has been operating since 2007.
From December 2014 until May 2015 Deans/Rectors of the 1000 best educational institutions of 154 countries worldwide were participating in voting, regarding business-schools for the official selection of EDUNIVERSAL 2015.
The final ranking of 1000 worldwide business-schools and detailed methodology can be found on the website of EDUNIVERSAL http://www.eduniversal-ranking.com/