FT top executive MBA programs

Executive MBAs are taken increasingly seriously by employers. Here we summarise the Financial Times research from 2003 across worldwide schools. This year we see an all-US top 5 for the first time since the research started (2001) with the closest contenders the two European Schools, LBS and Empresa. We also see an entry straight into the top 10 from Hong Kong UST Business School.

This year the research has been expanded to cover 75 schools Among the new entrants are: Hong Kong UST as already mentioned at nine, Georgetown (McDonough) at 15, IMD at 19, Toronto (Rotman) at 32. Rice and Concordia. A school from Germany (WHU, Beisheim) makes its first appearance at 43 and we also see schools in Israel (Tel Aviv), Belgium (Vlerick Leuven Ghent), Argentina (IAE) and Mexico (Ipade) appear in the EMBA rankings. INSEAD launched its first EMBA program (in France and Singapore) at the end of 2003 with around 70 students in total at the two campuses. We would expect the school to feature in the research as soon as it is eligible.

1         (1)           Wharton (US)
2         (7)           Chicago GSB (US/Spain/Singapore)
3         (6)           Duke (US)
4         (2)           Columbia (US)
5         (3)           Stern (US)
6         (4)           London Business School (UK)
7         (8)           Kellogg (US)
8         (5)           Instituto de Empresa (Spain)
9         (*)           Hong Kong UST (China)
10       (10)         Emory (US)
11       (9)           GSBA Zurich (Switzerland)
12       (11)         Western Ontario (Ivey) (Canada)
13       (18)         UCLA Anderson (US)
14       (32)         Purdue (Krannert) (US)
15       (*)           Georgetown (US)
16       (19)         Southern California (US)
17       (13)         Illinois (Urbana-Champagne) (US)
18       (12)         Imperial College (UK)
19       (*)           IMD (Switzerland)
20       (20)         Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
21       (21)         Texas at Austin, McCombs (US)
22       (15)         City (Cass) (UK)
23       (16)         IESE (Spain)
24       (14)         Australian GSB (Australia)
25       (44)         Temple (US)
26       (43)         California (Irvine) (US)
27       (33)         Wisconsin-Madison (US)
28       (30)         Boston (US)
29       (35)         Ashridge (UK)
30       (27)         Rochester Simon (US)
31       (28)         North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler (US)
32       (*)           Toronto (Rotman) (US)
33       (24)         Case Western (US)
34       (42)         Ceibs (China)
35       (23)         Warwick (UK)
36       (45)         Washington (Olin) (US)
37       (41)         Henley (UK)
38       (37)         Michigan State (Broad) (US)
39       (*)           Rice (Jones) (US)
40       (*)           Concordia (Molson) (Canada)
41       (31)         SMU (Cox) (US)
42       (38)         Bath (UK)
43       (*)           WHU Beisheim (Germany)
44       (29)         Minnesota (Carlson) (US)
45       (17)         Thunderbird (US)
46       (39)         Queens (Canada)
47       (40)         Notre Dame (Mendoza) (US)
48       (34)         UC Dublin (Smurfit) (Ireland)
49       (36)         Cranfield (UK)
50       (26)         Rotterdam (Netherlands)
51       (48)         Stockholm School Economics (Sweden)
52       (46)         Bradford/NIMBAS (UK/Netherlands)
53       (25)         Baylor (US)
54       (47)         Essec (France)
55       (49)         Wake (Babcock) (US)
56       (*)           Drexel (le Bow) (US)
57       (*)           Pittsburgh (Katts) (US)
58       (*)           Tennessee Knoxville (US)
59       (22)         ESC-EAP (France)
60       (*)           William and Mary (US)
61       (*)           Texas, Dallas (US)
62       (*)           Pepperdine (US)
63       (*)           St Galen (Switzerland)
64       (*)           Tel Aviv (Recanati) (Israel)
65       (*)           Iowa (Tippie) (US)
66       (50)         Tulane (Freeman) (US)
67       (*)           Vleric Leuven Ghent (Belgium)
68       (*)           Georgia State (US)
69       (*)           Vanderbilt (Owen) (US)
70       (*)           Georgia IT (DuPree) (US)
71       (*)           Brigham Young (Marriot) (US)
72       (*)           Athabasca (Canada)
73       (*)           Miami (US)
74       (*)           IAE (Argentina)
75       (*)           Ipade (Mexico)


Key: the first number refers to the school's 2003 rank for their EMBA program and the second its 2002 international ranking
(*) = new entry to FT list