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Not to be confused with Matthew Symonds.

Matt Symonds (born 9 December 1968) is a British entrepreneur and author.


Career

Symonds is founder of the QS World MBA Tour, an international organiser of business school events in over 40 countries, managing director of the graduate education consultancy SymondsGSB, and a co‑founder of the MaKi Business Media Conference series.[1] He is co‑author with Alain de Mendonca of the bestselling guide to business schools, ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge, sponsored by Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Co.

In 1995, he founded the business school event Euro MBA Tour, organising a Paris fair to introduce business schools to prospective MBA applicants. In 1998, he partnered with Nunzio Quacquarelli, editor of the TopMBA Career Guide, to create the QS World MBA Tour, later forming part of QS Quacquarelli Symonds, publishers of the QS World University Rankings.[2][3]

The Euro MBA Tour operates in over 40 countries, attracting more than 60,000 visitors each year to meet with 380 business schools. Participating institutions include UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Cambridge Judge Business School, CEIBS, Chicago GSB, Columbia Business School, Cornell S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Duke Fuqua School of Business, EM Lyon, ESADE, Harvard Business School, HEC, HKUST, IE, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, London Business School, New York University Stern School of Business, Oxford Saïd Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, Tuck School of Business, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, University of Virginia Darden School, Wharton School, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Yale School of Management.

Following his work at QS, Symonds founded BlueSky Education in 2008, an international communications and consulting agency specialising in higher education and business schools.[2] He subsequently acted as an editorial consultant to Times Higher Education during the launch of the THE World University Rankings in 2009 and later collaborated with Times Higher Education and The Wall Street Journal on business school initiatives.[2]

Symonds is also Editor‑in‑Chief of BlueSky Thinking, an online publication covering higher education, business schools and management research,[4][3] and a co‑founder of Fortuna Admissions, a graduate admissions consultancy.[5][6]

Publications

Symonds contributes to a number of international publications on business education and management, including The Economist,[7] BusinessWeek,[8] Forbes,[9] The Times,[10] Handelsblatt,[11] and The Independent.[12]

References

  1. ^ “Gaining Global PR Perspective”. Beetle Press. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  2. ^ a b c “Matt Symonds – Meet the team”. BlueSky Education. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  3. ^ a b “Matthew Symonds – Reinventing Higher Education”. IE Business School. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  4. ^ “symondsgsb, Author at BlueSky Thinking”. BlueSky Thinking. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  5. ^ “Matt Symonds – Founder”. Fortuna Admissions. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  6. ^ “Matt Symonds – Consultant”. Poets&Quants. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  7. ^ “Not all bad”. The Economist. 29 June 2009.
  8. ^ “Startups for Upstarts – BusinessWeek”. www.businessweek.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-01.
  9. ^ “Can Executive Education Survive The Downturn? – Forbes.com”. Forbes. 23 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ^ “The Times & The Sunday Times”.
  11. ^ “Böse Überraschung: Führerlose Business Schools”.
  12. ^ “Swots are back on top: The backlash against corporate figures as deans”. Independent.co.uk. 28 February 2014. Archived from the original on 2022-05-12.