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	Current rank	Rank 2010	Rank 2009	3 year average	School name	Country	Programme name	Salary ($)^[1]	Salary growth^[2]	Careers^[3]	Work exp.^[4]	Aims achieved^[5]	Wom. faculty^[6]	Wom. students^[7]	Wom. board^[8]	Intnl. faculty^[9]	Intl. students^[10]	Intl. board^[11]	Intl. course^[12]	Languages^[13]	PhD faculty^[14]	PhD rank^[15]	Research^[16]
	10	1	1	10	Kellogg / Hong Kong UST Business School	China	Kellogg-HKUST EMBA	419,41627,340	636	610	31	20	211	172	123	940	64	945	396	10	961	1712	142
	21	3	2	21	Trium: HEC Paris / LSE / New York University: Stern	France / UK / US	Trium Global EMBA	307,8086,665	5813	714	14	10	231	269	130	900	40	760	20	10	990	1810	241
	31	2	3	31	Columbia/London Business School	US / UK	EMBA Global Americas & Europe	259,83345,473	8524	134	3512	63	191	212	130	627	246	423	81	10	981	2311	125
	40	4	5	41	Insead	France / Singapore / U.A.E.	Insead Gemba	219,4417,639	6015	317	40	31	140	182	225	901	161	7010	12	10	972	612	110
	50	5	4	50	University of Chicago: Booth	US / UK / Singapore	EMBA	219,73616,897	7013	232	172	147	150	180	141	790	184	362	2813	10	961	412	30
	63	9	10	84	Duke University: Fuqua	US	MBA - Global Executive	254,5645,796	541	575	122	714	171	288	111	423	449	443	61	10	990	281	20
	71	8	5	71	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	MBA for Executives	220,7047,236	626	3415	670	1214	201	247	112	334	388	560	703	10	1000	10	10
	81	7	7	71	IE Business School	Spain	EMBA	177,0267,786	1539	3925	7812	5312	321	261	241	542	400	811	816	10	954	660	576
	9	-	-	-	UCLA / NUS	U.S.A / Singapore	UCLA-NUS EMBA	232,928	72	21	15	85	24	21	19	70	17	20	5	1	97	45	31
	104	6	8	80	London Business School	UK / U.A.E.	EMBA	180,4094,079	7911	94	334	50	213	197	173	841	51	705	170	10	991	371	71
	117	18	26	184	Ceibs	China	International EMBA	267,06217,973	729	244	213	559	130	365	177	625	4220	500	336	10	982	n/a0	692
	1112	23	23	193	Kellogg / York University: Schulich	Canada	Kellogg-Schulich EMBA	182,96921,175	6616	1454	83	2623	220	356	170	871	35	701	120	10	960	2612	150
	1313	26	16	186	Iese Business School	Spain	Global EMBA	206,27638,460	708	44	137	213	213	257	261	514	864	870	91	20	1001	6817	568
	144	10	19	141	Chinese University of Hong Kong	China	EMBA	275,8669,934	577	8317	1110	8411	212	339	500	8232	281	1000	303	11	962	555	7430
	153	18	12	152	Washington University: Olin School of Business/Fudan University School of Management	US / China	Washington-Fudan EMBA	237,8476,847	524	5917	52	575	211	385	141	911	3416	1000	335	10	983	793	201
	164	12	14	141	IMD	Switzerland	EMBA	213,92913,581	5813	1912	21	223	177	193	124	980	103	756	141	20	1000	n/a0	6511
	173	14	18	161	Kellogg / WHU-Otto Beisheim School	Germany	Kellogg-WHU EMBA	163,6286,361	794	312	2221	200	190	153	111	790	309	815	222	10	951	2013	181
	173	20	17	181	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	EMBA	238,15518,973	522	304	207	330	201	242	80	450	2610	82	816	10	941	100	91
	198	27	11	190	National University of Singapore School of Business	Singapore	Asia Pacific EMBA	219,57125,377	582	5010	189	1530	301	222	143	614	10	2912	102	10	942	5810	534
	208	28	41	307	Arizona State University: Carey	China	Carey / SNAI EMBA	239,6221,330	663	670	4127	687	251	275	110	961	983	00	816	10	871	327	271
	214	17	15	181	New York University: Stern	US	EMBA	193,39019,155	596	1223	798	312	160	292	100	481	4116	160	441	10	1000	33	86
	229	13	13	162	UC Berkeley / Columbia	US	Berkeley-Columbia EMBA	204,2444,538	5013	5521	438	48	193	286	100	561	396	280	705	10	980	86	61
	23	-	-	-	Korea University Business School	South Korea	EMBA	234,006	93	96	100	43	7	13	0	10	98	0	24	2	100	15	66
	2311	34	31	294	Imperial College Business School	UK	EMBA	149,25023,324	795	220	736	113	271	243	404	801	206	505	514	10	941	313	458
	2510	15	9	165	Columbia Business School	US	EMBA	203,2398,669	5312	272	872	3219	171	377	100	611	565	350	705	10	970	92	168
	262	24	-	-	Cornell University: Johnson	US	EMBA	226,04017,519	663	7037	6417	4813	250	172	248	321	451	243	563	10	912	577	264
	264	22	27	250	OneMBA: CUHK/RSM/UNC/FGV São Paulo/EGADE	China / Netherlands / US / Brazil / Mexico	OneMBA	184,6151,004	551	3212	142	3823	210	199	144	773	142	8528	71	10	941	3411	5512
	281	29	29	294	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	One-Year MBA for Executives	155,1683,513	537	3321	102	466	261	316	410	711	217	530	816	10	980	1212	103
	293	32	-	-	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	EMBA	191,1685,456	661	531	1617	1021	132	104	354	551	133	380	7014	10	970	334	461
	2919	10	21	205	City University: Cass	UK	EMBA	156,726979	7525	1612	583	4019	280	194	430	7416	121	570	217	10	951	298	582
	3116	15	25	244	ESCP Europe	France / UK / Germany / Spain / Italy	European EMBA	138,65714,441	7212	76	2411	2516	352	253	382	681	94	412	41	20	910	752	960
	321	31	20	282	University of Michigan: Ross	US	EMBA	202,25610,282	550	773	3812	2921	242	184	183	333	624	123	816	10	840	22	40
	331	32	21	293	Essec / Mannheim	France / Germany	Essec & Mannheim EMBA	151,28213,576	736	104	2515	1637	250	223	40	650	2211	782	110	11	961	4414	671
	341	35	35	352	Warwick Business School	UK	EMBA	131,4796,973	776	1141	837	836	391	291	145	604	3313	145	5223	10	970	78	448
	3511	46	37	390	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	EMBA	184,39822,390	679	81	696	5140	204	2812	120	3814	485	151	441	10	1006	n/a0	345
	367	29	30	322	University of Western Ontario: Ivey	Canada / China	EMBA	182,9928,302	628	543	284	9016	242	301	162	593	328	280	563	10	987	302	331
	371	38	28	342	UCLA: Anderson	US	EMBA	196,5053,171	466	5620	2656	355	160	253	191	374	8137	111	335	10	1008	383	172
	38	-	41	-	WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)/University of Minnesota: Carlson	Austria	EMBA Global	146,414	56	20	6	39	34	34	20	45	29	46	13	1	88	73	51
	3915	24	31	314	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	EMBA	143,41265	687	409	363	2313	161	251	251	370	253	210	335	20	1000	119	364
	401	41	39	402	Rice University: Jones	US	MBA for Executives	176,4615,368	567	2845	657	451	210	232	201	230	3523	40	794	10	930	n/a0	133
	410	41	37	404	Emory University: Goizueta	US	Weekend EMBA	180,8384,452	544	263	566	4210	242	254	153	190	6310	43	593	10	941	714	233
	413	44	41	422	University of Pittsburgh: Katz	US / Brazil / Czech Republic	EMBA Worldwide	172,1123,549	504	4431	555	610	291	287	61	711	436	30	1510	10	911	639	392
	4322	21	24	299	Purdue / TiasNimbas / CEU / GISMA	US / Netherlands / Hungary / Germany	International Masters in Management	141,1992,468	5111	1816	391	361	192	127	141	4852	215	2971	21	10	990	4614	546
	4411	55	-	-	Cornell University; Johnson/Queen's School of Business	US / Canada	Cornell-Queen's EMBA	152,73212,768	6414	3645	450	2419	271	134	211	352	156	2520	542	10	881	691	416
	458	37	40	411	National Taiwan University - College of Management	Taiwan	NTU EMBA	209,6886,767	4710	9215	322	8910	210	283	70	180	980	330	816	21	980	52	896
	457	52	55	513	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	US	EMBA	151,11014,666	512	2216	8011	1923	281	172	122	271	367	20	593	10	860	271	194
	473	44	33	411	Cranfield School of Management	UK	EMBA	136,0364,944	640	3513	273	277	324	276	212	484	192	363	441	10	867	534	873
	4812	36	50	45	University of Maryland: Smith	US	EMBA	166,1496,351	4815	9319	4717	6947	260	223	170	290	8920	42	816	10	971	400	54
	4923	72	-	-	Vanderbilt University: Owen	US	EMBA	162,10426,579	636	4922	712	7920	133	2910	102	2316	4734	30	702	10	1000	802	378
	50	-	44	-	Henley Business School	UK	EMBA	140,008	69	47	63	17	36	19	15	32	23	15	28	1	71	70	91
	5124	75	55	605	Villanova School of Business	US	EMBA	175,62114,045	578	6234	4413	1829	322	2218	174	113	761	52	441	10	846	n/a0	794
	529	43	54	501	Temple University: Fox	US	EMBA	155,97910,386	517	6524	508	8816	260	316	266	352	2712	508	175	10	814	3611	637
	539	62	55	574	Aalto University School of Economics	Finland / S. Korea / Singapore / Poland	EMBA	134,91413,050	513	2561	316	7619	301	236	433	796	757	862	335	10	760	242	789
	548	62	-	-	Texas A & M University: Mays	US	EMBA	170,47119,103	458	854	236	4144	337	181	240	161	835	00	816	10	822	657	292
	541	53	48	521	National Sun Yat-Sen University	Taiwan	EMBA	141,6564,883	615	823	9815	946	273	423	294	82	972	4318	304	10	950	214	952
	5617	39	34	436	Tongji University/ENPC	China	Shanghai International MBA (Simba)	147,316816	708	8021	741	991	371	413	170	30	941	580	816	10	790	136	7516
	5714	71	-	-	Yonsei University GSB	South Korea	Corporate MBA	151,81920,456	664	6420	908	654	145	232	400	102	952	400	816	20	1000	494	835
	573	54	65	591	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	EMBA	124,6941,100	604	5815	5315	584	241	333	172	422	490	544	816	10	970	488	6818
	579	66	61	614	FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração	Brazil	International EMBA	195,21418,540	3020	523	71	7225	182	172	361	93	9135	438	3013	20	1000	1910	981
	60	-	-	-	Georgia Institute of Technology	US	Global EMBA	154,178	42	75	97	28	10	28	7	29	60	2	15	1	90	51	25
	6123	84	-	-	Euromed Management	France / China	World Med Part-time MBA	138,58218,973	562	954	814	5229	304	5116	202	421	6716	132	2524	10	891	n/a0	827
	6211	51	-	-	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	US / Singapore	EMBA	146,0909,246	605	696	7219	974	280	2312	113	702	371	70	816	10	811	672	594
	622	64	52	591	Ashridge	UK	Part-Time EMBA	141,9704,921	6010	7914	6612	632	391	4016	143	360	716	143	414	10	539	n/a0	841
	6414	78	65	69	Georgia State University: Robinson	US	EMBA	153,2196,969	4813	893	572	7710	311	323	131	274	524	131	4411	10	824	504	526
	65	-	-	-	University of Florida: Hough	US	EMBA	141,483	47	37	49	73	22	15	29	18	77	2	77	1	94	42	30
	6515	50	53	565	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	MBA Executive	130,16610,990	493	7429	292	4911	175	232	330	584	573	00	414	10	954	165	703
	67	-	-	-	Fordham University GBA	US	EMBA	156,418	56	17	96	100	26	31	30	29	54	32	44	1	86	n/a	76
	67	-	-	-	University of Pretoria: Gibs	South Africa	Masters in Business Administration	180,836	56	46	88	93	25	29	44	29	74	11	50	1	58	82	88
	67	-	-	-	SDA Bocconi	Italy	EMBA	138,488	50	86	42	92	38	18	33	27	81	67	59	2	89	22	64
	703	73	46	6311	Rutgers Business School	US	EMBA	158,1082,244	382	2919	3726	4413	202	3916	1912	162	9225	00	598	10	743	3524	611
	708	78	76	755	SMU: Cox	US	EMBA	167,0151,875	385	6627	401	5911	291	217	110	242	799	31	593	10	921	n/a0	470
	7215	57	63	64	Koç University GSB	Turkey	EMBA	135,7714,949	567	5121	992	6742	431	255	200	168	935	730	816	10	954	n/a0	6217
	7325	48	36	5212	University of Alberta/University of Calgary: Haskayne	Canada	Alberta / Haskayne EMBA	138,5913,119	487	684	620	7447	260	1711	161	541	8533	91	703	10	882	7217	321
	741	75	64	711	Tulane University: Freeman	US	EMBA	167,4587,866	549	1000	191	9633	353	1814	92	323	714	261	560	10	884	6213	722
	7515	60	-	-	University of Georgia: Terry	US	EMBA	147,85617,186	434	9715	770	4711	281	321	143	161	6520	00	593	10	884	593	421
	7629	47	58	602	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	EMBA	119,4103,138	411	4332	91	5431	310	244	180	293	503	00	7042	10	905	141	601
	7612	64	51	6412	University of Texas at Dallas	US	EMBA	131,56911,642	406	881	3421	8610	232	328	202	562	664	149	412	10	801	476	220
	782	80	-	-	Incae Business School	Costa Rica	Global EMBA	161,19034,335	4513	9927	5915	5640	100	125	130	505	118	805	274	10	902	n/a0	971
	7819	59	46	616	Universität St.Gallen	Switzerland	EMBA	129,4149,516	507	52	543	135	112	138	117	665	5521	5647	404	20	5248	618	8513
	807	73	69	748	Ohio State University: Fisher	US	EMBA	151,2285,874	363	4828	6810	7812	272	134	120	211	6813	40	774	10	833	4310	213
	8120	61	61	687	Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School	Belgium	Part-time EMBA	116,5091,123	543	4114	700	3719	275	96	205	234	5917	1000	5511	21	923	741	814
	827	75	84	80	Auburn University	US	Auburn EMBA	147,7928,542	483	3840	305	6245	221	1914	192	72	861	30	692	10	961	777	865
	831	84	80	821	University of Washington: Foster	US	EMBA	152,8579,554	286	8711	4626	915	292	4213	191	181	8011	134	816	10	902	411	2810
	8415	69	65	730	Queen's School of Business	Canada	EMBA	120,780426	377	723	513	3424	281	250	194	441	460	554	532	10	860	5615	499
	85	-	69	-	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	EMBA	108,488	42	1	82	7	39	45	0	18	58	33	19	1	57	78	99
	854	89	78	842	University of Strathclyde Business School	UK	EMBA	121,8933,030	343	4211	8428	943	318	337	330	10067	311	330	816	10	797	391	712
	87	-	-	-	University of Arizona: Eller	US	EMBA	127,870	46	78	91	98	30	26	16	29	77	2	59	1	91	25	40
	880	88	77	842	University of Utah: Eccles	US	EMBA	133,57010,410	431	906	7511	802	368	106	137	361	843	41	222	10	871	762	437
	892	91	73	840	Baylor University	US	EMBA	131,5827,401	5810	8111	8533	3030	320	212	192	32	7021	82	5910	10	752	n/a0	771
	904	86	-	-	University of Houston: Bauer	US	EMBA	136,3829,136	411	946	768	6617	270	195	243	231	630	210	593	10	847	601	508
	90	-	74	-	University of Rochester: Simon	US / Switzerland	Rochester-Bern EMBA	121,911	46	91	61	50	19	21	12	29	61	18	20	1	81	64	48
	904	86	72	836	Pepperdine University: Graziadio	US	EMBA	168,6524,252	362	7313	6014	6021	221	351	184	60	9637	44	809	10	792	n/a0	902
	9338	55	45	6423	Thunderbird School of Global Management	US	EMBA	146,50813,458	2615	4513	4826	8377	271	212	203	291	535	2311	258	20	901	n/a0	736
	9413	81	71	826	University of Miami School of Business Administration	US	EMBA	128,842950	347	6023	892	7012	262	2614	60	321	7332	00	816	10	950	811	3812
	9526	69	79	818	Bradford School of Management/TiasNimbas Business School	UK / Netherlands / Germany	Executive Part-time MBA	109,9361,517	5011	7621	940	6413	252	235	352	451	695	1016	816	10	861	525	806
	956	89	89	91	Loyola University Maryland: Sellinger	US	MBA Fellows	118,6305,370	557	6111	935	8127	252	301	204	200	712	00	683	10	923	n/a0	940
	971	96	95	961	IAE Business School	Argentina	EMBA	157,40320,231	461	635	952	7513	137	170	52	345	519	383	816	20	572	n/a0	932
	985	93	87	931	Ipade	Mexico	Medex	179,0165,914	515	1524	866	828	63	180	00	88	874	99	816	10	321	n/a0	991
	994	95	85	933	University of Denver: Daniels	US	EMBA	151,2369,775	441	8423	528	953	276	241	124	31	905	44	3323	10	670	n/a0	924
	10017	83	80	88	Michigan State University: Broad	US	Weekend MBA	119,5247,661	393	984	9211	875	291	232	262	223	884	96	816	10	891	5410	358
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Table notesAlthough the headline ranking figures show changes in the data year to year, the pattern of clustering among the schools is equally significant. Some 290 points separate Kellogg / Hong Kong UST Business School at the top, from the school ranked number 100. The first ten business schools,from Kellogg / Hong Kong UST Business School to London Business School, form the top group of schools. The second group is headed by the Ceibs, which would need to increase its score by 5 points in order to move up a group. Top of the third group is the joint programme from Cornell University: Johnson and Queen's School of Business.Some 40 points separate the top and bottom schools in this third group. The fourth group is slightly closer together, separated by 33 points.

Footnotes

1. The average alumni salary three years after graduation. (The 2011 EMBA ranking is based on data for alumni graduating in 2008). This figure includes alumni salary data for the current year and the one or two preceding years, where available.

2. The percentage increase in average alumni salary from before the EMBA to today as a percentage of the pre-EMBA salary. This figure includes data for the current year and the one or two preceding years, where available.

3. This is calculated according to changes in the level of seniority and the size of the company alumni are working in now versus before their EMBA. Data for the current year and the one or two preceding years are included where available.

4. This measures the previous experience of EMBA participants by examining seniority of positions held, number of years in each position, size of company, and any international work experience prior to starting the EMBA.

5. The extent to which alumni fulfilled their most important goals or reasons for doing an EMBA.

6. The percentage of female faculty

7. The percentage of female students

8. The percentage of female members of the advisory board

9. The percentage of faculty whose citizenship differs from their country of employment

10. This combines two pieces of data. The first is the percentage of participants who are resident in the country of the business school but whose citizenship is different to that country. The second is the percentage of participants who are resident outside the country in which the business school is situated.

11. The percentage of the board whose citizenship differs from the country in which the business school is based

12. International course experience: The percentage of classroom teaching hours that are carried out outside the country in which the business school is situated. The data is presented as a rank and the top position is one.

13. Number of languages students are required to speak on graduation.

14. The percentage of faculty with a doctoral degree

15. This is calculated according to the number of doctoral graduates from each business school during the past three years. Additional points are given if these doctoral graduates took up faculty positions at one of the top 50 full-time MBA schools of 2010.

16. This is calculated according to the number of faculty publications in 45 international academic and practitioner journals. Points are accrued by the business school at which the author is currently employed. The total is weighted for faculty size.

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