The University of Sydney is very pleased to rank 27^th in the new (UK) Financial Times ranking of management masters. Apparently, business school dean Greg Whitwell thinks the result is “thrilling,” not least because the school is first in Australia for the sixth time, this year it is the only local in the list. However, UniSyd is also fifth in the Asia-Pacific, behind a French-Singapore JV (3), Shanghai Jia Tong (18) and three Indian biz schools. The first 50 consists of mainly Euro institutions – the top North American entry is the University of British Columbia at 49. The one year (UniSydney’s is 1.15 FT) management master course is very much a Euro-alternative to the MBA.