FT Executive Education Rankings 2023: Europe on top

European business schools dominate top tiers of FT’s 2023 Mains Open Enrollment Ranking And custom Executive Education Programs – With a few notable exceptions.

Business schools headquartered in Europe offer 11 of the top 12 open programs – headed by Barcelona’s Ise – and nine of the leading 12 custom courses, individually designed for client organizations. But Duke Corporate Education, based in the US, bucked the trend emphatically by securing the top spot in the custom ranking.

Duke of France in custom table comes after CE INSEAD, HEC Paris, Yes And ESMT in Germany. University of Michigan: Ross is ranked sixth in the US, and Fundacao Dom Cabral Brazil is ranked 11th.

Among the top 12 schools in the open-enrollment rankings, Fundacao Dom Cabral United is the only non-European provider in seventh place, while other highly ranked institutions include Oxford: Said, London Business School And imd in Switzerland.

Financial Times Executive Education Ranking 2023

To see twin main ranking Of custom And open registration Executive Education Programs, as well as the Combined Top 50 Table.

European providers, led by HEC Paris, Iese and Insead in France, also top the combined table based on strong performances in the main twin rankings for courses open to all and custom programmes. Duke CE doesn’t offer open enrollment courses, so that’s not a feature here.

Executive education usually consists of shorter, non-degree programs. The FT’s rankings of free enrollment and custom courses are not comprehensive: each lists the top 75 out of a total of 105 schools participating in the process. Some schools did not receive sufficient evaluations from participants and customers to be included, while others, including some schools in the US, declined to participate.

The data reflects the continued diversity and strength of business school executive education providers, despite pressure on employers’ training and development budgets and competition from alternative providers including edtech companies, consultants and coaches.

Andrew Crisp, co-founder of education consultancy CarringtonCrisp, says, “There is a growing interest in execution in schools that often have a strong regional link with businesses.” “In the broader market, lay-offs in the tech sector as well as economic uncertainty are a factor, with training often leading to an initial reduction in corporate spending.”

Courses are often taught across multiple campuses to expose students to different cultures and reflect their geographic spread. For example, the Spanish school Iese has programs taught in the US, Germany and Brazil, and HEC in Qatar and Inseads in Singapore and the UAE, along with their French operations.

Geopolitical tensions around China and Russia have restricted some international events. However, Jiang Bing, dean of the Beijing-based Cheung Kang Graduate School of Business, says domestic demand remains strong, and it is also developing courses focused on “unicorn” businesses in Singapore, South Korea, Dubai, Japan, Italy and the US. “The major driver is our globalization,” he says.

Many executive education courses were badly hit during the pandemic as employers focused on maintaining their businesses, but they have partially recovered as companies explore new strategies to retain and motivate senior employees. Provides training in areas such as recruitment, building teams and upskilling. digital transformation. Topics including leadership, as well as artificial intelligence, managing remote workers, sustainability and diversity, are among the topics most frequently sought by executives.

However, business schools are being disrupted by both the expansion of alternative forms of online provision following the Covid-19 pandemic and the emergence of new technologies including regenerative AI.

Corporate learning consultant Josh Bersin says that some business school executive programs considered to offer “off-the-shelf” training were “losing their luster,” but corporate clients are looking for “specialized, customized leadership programs.” Willing to spend a lot of money”.

While reducing the amount of face-to-face contact, online and hybrid courses have also cut training costs and reduced travel barriers for participants and speakers from around the world.

A range of business schools, some of which did not participate in the FT rankings, continue to expand and adapt, including the Chicago booth, which moved its Asian pillar back to Hong Kong after briefly relocating to Singapore during the pandemic. Transferring in

Corporate clients ‘willing to spend significant sums for expert, customized leadership programs’

Ranked schools must be approved by the US-based accreditation agency AACSB, or EFMD, its European-based counterpart, and based on the ranking, report at least $1 million in revenue in 2022 from its range of custom or open executive education programs Have you done They are rated on a number of criteria, including evaluation of participants on a number of factors including school survey data on curriculum design, follow-up and faculty and student diversity.

In open courses, top-ranked students came first for overall satisfaction; HEC Paris, in second place, came out on top for curriculum design, teaching methods, faculty and follow-up. Five schools, including ISE, reported a 50:50 gender balance. Kozminsky University Poland had the highest proportion of female students at 67 percent; Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad The lowest was 20 percent.

In custom courses, Duke CE was judged by clients first for program design and teaching methods and materials, and Michigan:Ross for the quality of its faculty. INSEAD led in new skills and learning and ESMT in Berlin scored top for goals achieved and value for money.

For open programs, schools offer one or two general management courses of at least three days and one or two advanced management courses of at least five days. For custom courses, each school must have at least 15 customers, at least five of whom must complete an assessment.