Financial Times ranks Executive MBA

While other prominent business media have published their full-time MBA rankings, the Financial Times has ranked executive MBA models worldwide. The British newspaper found in its 2015 survey that business school partnerships were emerging as the dominant model for these programmes.

Executive MBAs that reach out to senior management slowly evolve into flagship programmes for many business schools, according to FT. These programmes reach out increasingly for international partners, as well as online learning. In general two divergent approaches have been embraced by schools; one where schools establish overseas campuses by themselves and another one where schools have formed co-operations with competing schools overseas. INSEAD is the only school which has combined both options, with campuses in France, Abu Dhabi and Singapore and an EMBA partnership with Tsinghua in China.

According to the results of FT’s ranking, the partnership model evolves to be the more successful approach as the top five programmes in the EMBA table are all partnerships. The INSEAD and Tsinghua EMBA was ranked at the top followed by partnerships between Kellogg and HKUST Business School at number 2 and Trium: HEC Paris, LSE and New York University’s Stern on number 3. The partnership between Columbia and London Business School as well as UCLA’s cooperation with the National University of Singapore made the fourth and fifth spot.

1    Tsinghua University / Insead (China, France)
2    Kellogg / HKUST Business School (US, China)
3    Trium: HEC Paris / LSE / New York University: Stern (France, Great Britain, US)
4    Columbia / London Business School (US, Great Britain)
5    UCLA: Anderson / National University of Singapore (US, Singapore)
6    Washington University: Olin, US
7    Insead, France
8    IE Business School, Spain
9    University of Oxford: Saïd, Great Britain
10    Nanyang Business School,    Singapore
10    Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai, China
12    University of Chicago: Booth, US
13    ESCP Europe, France
14    University of Pennsylvania: Wharton, US
15    Iese Business School, Spain
16    Ceibs, China
17    Duke University: Fuqua, US
18    IMD, Switzerland
19    London Business School, Great Britain
20    Kellogg / WHU Beisheim, US/Germany

This ranking compares to the bi-annual ranking of the Economist for example, where the top spots were taken by Spain’s IE Business School, Oxford’s Saïd Business School, Kellogg School of Management, the cooperation between UCLA’s Anderson and the National University of Singapore and partnerships of Kellogg with Canada’s Schulich and Germany’s WHU

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http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/executive-mba-ranking-2015