Stanford Graduate School of Business has bounced back to its number one slot as the greenest school on the block, according to the Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes Survey. The biennial alternate ranking of business schools looks at how schools weave social, environmental and ethics content into their curriculum, examining everything from schools’ extracurricular activities to the number of course offerings on the topic. This year’s ranking shakeup pushed York University’s Schulich School of Business, number one in the 2009 ranking, to second place. Stanford ranked first in the ranking in 2005 and 2007, but stumbled to fourth place in 2009, the last time the survey was conducted.
Stanford earned back its top spot because of the large number of courses the school offers with social and environmental content, as well as classes that directly look at the role mainstream business can play in improving society, the survey authors noted. In addition, the school has done a good job creating an environment that allow faculty to explore these topics in their research, they said.
Closely following on the heels of the Schulich School are IE Business School in Spain, University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and the Yale School of Management, at no. 3, 4, and 5, respectively. For this year’s ranking, the Beyond Grey Pinstripes team looked at data from 149 schools in 22 countries.
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