Executive MBA Rankings

FT Ranking 

According to the Financial Times ranking of the world’s best EMBA programs, the joint Executive MBA program offered by Northwestern University Kellogg school of management and Hong Kong University of Science and technology is unbeaten and ranks at the top. For 9 out of the last 18 times this program has been included in this list and amongst the Top EMBA courses in the world.

Now there is a new name on the list – the 2019 EMBA ranking by the Financial Times has a new winner- The HEC Paris international MBA.

This course is offered in both France and Qatar. Climbing almost 5 places up and it now ranks along with the Kellogg/HKUST program as the best around the globe.

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HEC Paris mainly benefited on the back of excellent career progress scores, according to the Financial Times. The score for work experience of candidates has also risen for the course which adds to its popularity. From 39th position last year to whopping 5th this year, HEC is now the prime program. 2 years back it wasn’t even ranked by FT!

The Executive MBA programs offered by single schools as the sole domain is often considered as inferior or less desirable than the Partnership programs. In Financial Times’ list of best EMBA’s, partnership programs like Kellogg and HKUST always tend to dominate. 10 out of 25 programs listed in FT are mostly the partnership of two or more schools.

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MIT Sloan School of management ranks first in the US and is the best EMBA option in the country. With its wide popularity and a global rank of 15 MIT is  the best EMBA course in the USA.

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Apart from it, Yale school of management ranked 17^th which makes it the current year’s highest-ranked newbie. Yale recorded the biggest boost in salary after graduation, jumping up to 123% on average. Chicago’s Booth School of Business also ranks 21st globally.

The Top programs this year:

1. HEC PARIS
2. KELLOGG/HKUST
3. TRIUM- another EMBA program, which is a three-way partnership of HEC Paris, London School of economics, and New York university’s – Stern school of business.
4. Another partnership among – Columbia business school, Hong Kong university, and London business school
5. Last but not least, fifth place is bagged by CEIBS’ Global Executive MBA program in China, with Switzerland and Ghana

Generally, international schools perform better and rank well in FT rankings as the methodology and weightage is skewed towards international parameters such as international faculty – almost 18% of the score weightage is given to such international credentials.

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Out of 18%, international faculty holds 5%, 5 % is kept for for international students and about 5% for course experience. The remaining is dedicated to the international board (2%) and having at least some portion of course in a different language other than English (1%). The methodology really aids HEC Paris as 69% of its faculty staff and about 81% of EMBA students are not from France.

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SALARIES THREE YEARS AFTER GRADUATION LOOMS LARGE IN THE RANKING

There are 16 different metrics and basis which FT considers for ranking, but the majority of it is based on just two measures. Around 40% of it is based on – Salaries after three years after graduation and the % increase in salary or pay of alumni compared with pre-EMBA salaries. Senior executives are kept in mind and solely the reason for that heavy emphasis is placed on the compensation aspect.

Kellogg/HKUST program has done well over the years on this aspect. This program again leads among all schools when it comes to compensation after three years of graduation – with an average pay of of $513,014! Also, the increase in salary for students of about 63% makes it 26th best of the 100 schools in the list.

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But there’s a catch, the above-mentioned data tends to favor students coming from countries with high rates of poverty. Because the compensation numbers are adjusted by FT for the PPP (Purchasing power parity), a factor that favors China as well. About six of the highly ranked schools have a connection to China.

This is the reason why some of the best executive MBA programs in the world fail to perform in Financial times ranking. Often regarded among the top three U.S. EMBAs, Chicago Booth ranks 21st, While Kellogg and Columbia business school bags 32nd and 36th place respectively. But wait, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, with its both east and west coast campuses, doesn’t even count in the ranking list as the school declined to follow the norms and cooperate with ranking!

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About 136 programs took part in the ranking process in the year 2019, which includes 15 joint EMBA programs delivered by more than one school. About 6 new EMBA programs made the top 100, including the prominent Indian school of business, it was a debut for ISB at a rank of 52nd. Georgia state university finished at the 83rd position.

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THE BIG RANKING WINNERS & LOSERS

The biggest jump was seen by the Arizona state university joint EMBA with the Shanghai national accounting institute among 25 ranked programs. The program escalated 13 places to take 12th place, far from the rank of 25 last year. The partnership between Columbia business school’s global Americas EMBA partnership with LBS jumped eight places to finish in sixth place. Change of seven places can be seen with both Oxford and Cambridge respectively, finishing at 10th and 18th.

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London Business School also fared well, rising six places to rank eighth, its first top ten finish ever. The FT attributed the improvement to a big boost in alumni salaries to $292,023 this year from $243,250 in 2019. “There has also been a rise in the percentage salary increase, from 68% last year to 78% now,” according to the FT. “Other strong factors are increases in career progression, from 24th last year to 12th position, and research, from 17th to 10th over the same time frame.”. LBS performed really well in the ranking with a shift of six places and ending in eighth place. Alumni salaries had a positive impact and FT led to the improvement from $243,250 to $292,023 this year.

Among 25 EMBA programs, 4 of them suffered and dropped half a dozen places. While INSEAD’s two programs declined by six spots, on the other hand, its partnership with Tsinghua suffered and fell from third place to ninth place.

The standalone EMBA fell from 16th place in 2018 to 22nd. The partnership of the National University of Singapore and Anderson school of management declined to 22nd place, while the Executive MBA offering by the Warwick business school fell from 18th to 24th place.

There is, however, plenty of inconstancies, excluding the 13 programs that made to the list this year without having their name placed on the 2018 ranking.

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Financial Times 2019 Executive MBA Ranking

As is typical in this quirky ranking Partnership programs are dominating the list in this table of rankings. The big news: After three consecutive turns at the top. Kellogg’s partnership with Hong Kong University of Science & Technology drops to second place behind HEC Paris.

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• Executive MBA Guide: Admissions
• Executive MBA Guide: Executive Assessment
• Executive MBA Guide: Fee and Scholarships
• Executive MBA Guide: ROI
• Executive MBA Guide: MBA for Working Professionals
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