ESADE ranked 4th best business school in Europe by The Financial Times
For the third year in a row, ESADE is among Europe’s five best business schools, this time weighing in at 4th in The Financial Times' European Business School Ranking, published today. The annual list is a consolidation of the rankings of various FT rankings published during 2014 (Master in Management, MBA, Executive MBA, Executive Education — Open and Custom varieties). Its purpose is to give an overview of business schools.
The latest result confirms ESADE’s steady rise in the rankings over the last seven years. The School is now among the top five business schools in Europe — a select group that includes other leaders such as London Business School, HEC, and INSEAD.
The Dean of the ESADE Business School, Josep Franch, says "ESADE’s steady rise in the European rankings reflects the School’s excellence in all its programmes, its ability to adapt to changes in the business setting, and the institution’s efforts to help students achieve their goals.
International mobility and career development
ESADE´s programmes are among the best in Europe: the MBA is ranked 8th; the Master in Management (MIM), 5th; the Executive MBA, 11th. The School’s Executive Education programmes are ranked 5th and 4th (for the Open and Custom formats, respectively).
The most highly-rated aspects are: (1) international work mobility and career development; (2) the international nature of its courses (programme design, the range of students experience and their diverse geographical origins, graduates international mobility); (3) companies' perception that ESADE is excellent at meeting today’s market needs.
Internationalisation — the common denominator
ESADE is highly-rated for the number of international client companies and foreign students in classrooms. This is a clear vindication of ESADE’s multi-culturalism, the rising importance of programmes catering to a wide range of managers, and of its courses taught abroad.
Here, one should note that the FT ranks ESADE’s Global Executive MBA 4th in the world. This result stems directly from the methodology used in the programme and the multi-cultural profile of the student body. The Master’s programme has over 40 students drawn from 15 countries (The United States, South Africa, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Jordan, The United Arab Emirates (UAE), France, Spain, El Salvador, Brazil, Switzerland, China, Bulgaria, Russia, Mexico).
Among the world’s top business schools
The Financial Times ranks several ESADE programmes in the Top 10 worldwide — Master of Finances (2nd); Executive Education (5th); Master in International Management (MIM) (6th); Executive Education (Custom Programmes) (6th).
