The list of eminent alumni springing from Bond University may not be a who’s who of the platinum AMEX card-carrying crowd, but the small private institution on the Gold Coast has produced more business leaders as a proportion of its alumni than any other Australian university.
However, two of Australia’s smallest universities – Bond University and the University of New England – produce more business leaders per head of their alumni population. “I started two and a half years after it opened. There was a lot of flexibility – I was able to shape my degree to the things I was interested in. I had a passion for investment banking and the university made it happen for me,” Mr Baxby said.
On the flip side, Bond’s reputation as being a teaching-focused, small university would have been beneficial in attracting students who had clear notions about their future, as would its big scholarship program.Forbes list of the world’s top 1000 companiesLike resume.io, that analysis named the University of NSW as the institution that produced the most chief executives in Australia, followed by Australian National University, Macquarie University and the University of South Australia.