Rankings

The newest Financial Times ranking doesn’t change much amongst the top positions. On the losing end is CEIBS in Shanghai.

Kellog School of Management successfully defended its first place in BusinessWeek’s biennal Executive MBA Ranking followed by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Third comes Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The top slots in the worldwide Financial Times (FT) ranking of Executive MBA (EMBA) programs have once again gone to programs involving the cooperation of several business schools.

British business magazine The Economist has named the Iese in Barcelona the best business school in the world. IMD, last year’s winner, came in second place, followed by the Haas School of Business and the Booth School of Business in Chicago. The Mannheim Business School managed a formidable jump up in the ranking.

Most MBA programs in the US still last two years. In contrast, shorter programs dominate in Europe. But the Americans are increasingly discovering the advantage of the condensed education. Now the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has published its first ranking of the “accelerated MBA programs.”

With the London Business School (LBS), a European school is at the top of the worldwide rankings from the Financial Times (FT) for the first time – even though it has to share first place with the Wharton School from Philadelphia. Other European and Asian schools were also able to improve.

The European Business School (EBS) is proud of its placement in a worldwide ranking from Eduniversal. EBS Director Axel Schumacher isn’t just on the scientific committee there – he even considers the ranking a “great start”. But this is more than questionable.

There are no big changes in the top ten in the ranking of the best American full-time programs that is published every two years by Business Week. Chicago is ahead of Harvard and Kellogg. In the separately rated international schools, the Spanish school Instituto de Empresa landed in second place ahead of Insead.

Just at the time Business Week has releases its newest MBA rankings, management professor Frederick P. Morgeson has published a study intended to prove how flawed magazine’s ranking is.

A new ranking of Indian business schools was the top story on the evening news on CNBC-TV18, India’s leading business news channel. The winners are the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Lucknow. The Indian School of Business in Hyderabad did not make the top ten.

The Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad was represented in the Financial Times (FT) ranking for the first time in January and landed in 20th place worldwide. But the school did not fulfill the requirements for participation in the ranking. Now the school is surprising critics with a simple explanation.

The non-profit organization Net Impact offers an overview of the green and socially-responsible MBA programs with its “Business as unusual” study.

The Kellogg School of Management and the Wharton School are significantly ahead of their competitors and scored particularly well with companies in the first Executive MBA ranking from the Wall Street Journal.

The joint Global EMBA from the Columbia Business School and the London Business School occupies the top spot in the new worldwide Financial Times ranking. The best program with German participation is once again the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA in 12th place.

IMD’s full-time program landed in first place in the new “Global Ranking” of the British magazine Economist, followed by the Spanish business school IESE and the University of Chicago. A German school is represented on the renowned ranking for the first time with the Mannheim Business School in 51st place.

Three German schools have managed to land among the top 50 in the new global ranking from the Latin American economics magazine América Economía.