In the 2020 Master in Finance ranking announced by Financial Times (FT) on June 15th, 2020, the Master of Finance (MF) Program at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) achieved another success by staying on the top spot in Asia for the third time.
Since its inaugural publication in 2011, the FT ranking has been considered one of the most hailed benchmarks in the world. It rates business schools and their MF programs on 17 criteria in two key domains. The career progression domain, involving 7 metrics and weighing 58% in total, is derived from a survey among alumni after three years of graduation. The other domain focuses on the diversity of business schools and their MF programs, which covers 10 metrics collected from survey questionnaires, weighting 42%.
SAIF distinguishes itself in the following rankings this year: "Faculty with Doctorates" (No.1 in the world), “Salary Today” (No.4 in the world), "Salary Percentage Increase" (No.5 in the world and No.1 in Asia) and "International course experience” (No.25 in the world and No.1 in Asia). Overall, SAIF MF is ranked No. 13 among all 55 listed business schools and stays on the top spot in Asia for the third time. Among 5 Asian schools in the ranking, SAIF is followed by Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (No.15) and Guanghua School of Management of Peking University (No.17).
