The US-American business school stood out amongst the 65 tested programmes for pre-MBA salary, quality of faculty, rating of culture and classmates, while the helpfulness of its alumni network was also thought of highly by students according to the Economist.

Some of the highly successful programmes in the top ten are run jointly by schools in different countries, or continents showcasing how global executive education has become. Examples are UCLA Anderson School of Management and National University of Singapore; Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany; and Kellogg's joint programme with York University's Schulich School of Business in Canada.

Ranking of executive MBA programmes, 2018

1 Yale School of Management, United States

2 UCLA/NUS Business School, United States/Singapore

3 Northwestern (Kellogg)/WHU (Beisheim), United States/Germany

4 University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business, United States

5 IMD - International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland

6 University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, United States

7 University of Oxford – Saïd Business School, Britain

8 Northwestern (Kellogg)/York (Schulich), United States/Canada

9 Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, United States

10 University of Warwick – Warwick Business School, Britain

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