Financial Times EMBA Ranking

2012

1. Kellogg / Hong Kong UST Business School
2. Columbia/London Business School
3. Trium: HEC Paris / LSE / New York University: Stern
4. Insead
5. University of Chicago: Booth

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    The Financial Times has been publishing Business School rankings since 1999. The objectives are "to produce a listing of business schools that are producing the global managers for the 21st century". They are publishing five different rankings spread out over the whole year:

    • Global MBA-Ranking (January)
    • Executive Education Ranking (May)
    • European Master's in Management Programme Ranking (September)
    • Executive MBA Ranking (October)
    • European Business School Ranking (December)

    Except for its latest ranking, the Master's in Management Programme, which ranks pre-experience (Bologna Master) programmes, the programmes covered are continuous and executive education programmes . There are some 15-20 criteria used in the different rankings, addressing the overarching goal of customer satisfaction. The ranking criteria vary, but they are mostly based on four general aspects:

    • Career progress of alumni
    • International focus of the programmme
    • Research strength of the faculty
    • Gender diversity with regard to participants, faculty and board

    FT rankings are highly selective. Only business schools with a strong international orientation and a high reputation are eligible. The rankings are mostly global in its scope, some of them are european. The published rankings are dominated by English-speaking business schools, which is also due to some cultural biases embedded in the ranking methodology. This can be seen in the overriding importance given to salary-related criteria (40% of the weight) and the required publication in a selected group of 40 English language journals (10%).