University of St. Gallen

The University of St. Gallen (in German: Universität St. Gallen) is a public research university located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is specialized in the fields of business administration, economics, law, and international affairs. The University of St. Gallen is also known as HSG, which is an abbreviation of its former German name Hochschule St. Gallen.  Despite being one of the smaller universities in Switzerland, the University of St. Gallen has the largest faculty for business administration within Switzerland, Germany and Austria. It is considered to be one of the leading business schools in Europe. Recently, the Financial Times ranked the University of St. Gallen's Master's program in Management (SIM) 1st worldwide and its Master's program in Finance (MBF) 12th worldwide.  The University of St. Gallen is a member of the CEMS and APSIA networks. It is EQUIS and AACSB accredited

History

The University of St. Gallen was founded as a "business academy" in 1898 and offered its first lectures in 1899, making it one of the oldest universities of its kind in the world.
In autumn 2009, there were about 6,500 students, 80 tenured professors, 60 assistant professors and senior lecturers, and over 300 lecturers and 300 assistants. The University is financed by the Canton of St. Gallen and other Swiss cantons. The laws of the Canton of St. Gallen give the university far-reaching research autonomy

Rankings

In the Financial Times Executive Education Ranking 2009, the University of St. Gallen is ranked 30th globally and 13th within Europe. Within the German speaking area, St. Gallen takes the lead. The St. Gallen EMBA is ranked 60 worldwide and ranked 21 within Europe. St. Gallen was ranked 26th among the Global Top 200 Business Schools in QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2010 ranking. The Masters of Arts program in Strategy and International Management (SIM) has been ranked 1st and the Masters of Arts program in Banking and Finance (MBF) has been ranked 12th globally by Financial Times in the 2011 ranking. Bloomberg Businessweek has included St. Gallen MBA as one of the Top 23 programs outside the US. The Wall Street Journal has ranked St. Gallen MBA 13th globally for accelerated MBA program. Handelsblatt, a German business newspaper, has ranked the University of St. Gallen 2nd in Business Administration in 2009 and 9th in Economics in 2011 for its research output among universities in Germany, Austria, and the German speaking part of Switzerland. According to a 2009 ranking by the Centre for Higher Education Development, a German think tank, the University of St. Gallen belongs to a top group of only six universities in Europe that provide an outstanding overall study situation for Master's and doctoral students in Economics. In 2011, the program Strategic International Management (SIM) of the University of St.Gallen was ranked 1st worldwide, leaving its peer programs from Harvard Business School and Wharton Business School on second resp. third rank.

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