Top accounting school in Asia-Pacific
15th November 2004
The University of New South Wales has been ranked first in a study of accounting schools in the Asia-Pacific. Based on research performance, the study ranks UNSW as equivalent to Columbia University.
Accounting schools of more than 100 Asia-Pacific universities were ranked in the study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. It covers a period of 12 years, from 1991 to 2002, and measures the research productivity in 18 accounting journals as well as a sub-set of five top journals.
The top five universities over this period are UNSW, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Nanyang Technological University, the University of Sydney and City University of Hong Kong. HKUST replaces UNSW as the first ranked university in the period 1997-2002, but UNSW retains the top position overall.
The Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Professor Greg Whittred, said:
“This outstanding result confirms the Faculty’s position as a leading business school in the Asian region. A number of the Faculty’s schools have now been ranked as among the top three in Asia.
“It is particularly pleasing to see that the research performance of the leading Asia-Pacific accounting programs compares favourably with our North American counterparts,” Professor Whittred said.
He also congratulated the Head of UNSW’s School of Accounting, Professor Wai Fong Chua, and Scientia Professor Ken Trotman who were ranked in the top five most productive authors over the period.
UNSW was recently ranked among the world’s top 50 universities by the UK’s prestigious Times Higher Education Supplement.
For more information: Faculty of Commerce and Economics website.
Media contact: Judy Brookman, UNSW Media Office +61 2 9385 3249, mob. 0421 061 251
Study authors are Kam C. Chan, from Western Kentucky University, Carl R. Chen, from the University of Dayton and Louis T.W. Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Accounting schools of more than 100 Asia-Pacific universities were ranked in the study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. It covers a period of 12 years, from 1991 to 2002, and measures the research productivity in 18 accounting journals as well as a sub-set of five top journals.
The top five universities over this period are UNSW, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Nanyang Technological University, the University of Sydney and City University of Hong Kong. HKUST replaces UNSW as the first ranked university in the period 1997-2002, but UNSW retains the top position overall.
The Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Professor Greg Whittred, said:
“This outstanding result confirms the Faculty’s position as a leading business school in the Asian region. A number of the Faculty’s schools have now been ranked as among the top three in Asia.
“It is particularly pleasing to see that the research performance of the leading Asia-Pacific accounting programs compares favourably with our North American counterparts,” Professor Whittred said.
He also congratulated the Head of UNSW’s School of Accounting, Professor Wai Fong Chua, and Scientia Professor Ken Trotman who were ranked in the top five most productive authors over the period.
UNSW was recently ranked among the world’s top 50 universities by the UK’s prestigious Times Higher Education Supplement.
For more information: Faculty of Commerce and Economics website.
Media contact: Judy Brookman, UNSW Media Office +61 2 9385 3249, mob. 0421 061 251
Study authors are Kam C. Chan, from Western Kentucky University, Carl R. Chen, from the University of Dayton and Louis T.W. Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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