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European Business School Rankings 2017

	Rank 2017	Rank 2016	Rank 2015	3-year rank	Business School	Country	Full time MBA 2017	MBA sal ($)^[1]	MBA sal inc (%)^[2]	Executive MBA 2017^[3]	EMBA Sal ($)^[3]	EMBA sal inc (%)^[3]	Masters in Management 2017	MiM Sal ($)	MiM sal inc (%)	Open ExecEd '17	Custom ExecEd '17	Female Faculty (%)^[4]	International Faculty (%)^[4]	Faculty with doctorate (%)^[4]
	1	1	1	10	London Business School	UK	3	154,567	92	11 (1) (3)	222,466 (319,032) (254,208)	55 (78) (86)	4	85,2627,106	63	6	4	243	851	1000
	2	2	2	20	HEC Paris	France	7	132,073	99	4	328277	52	2	99,1459,352	73	8	5	190	712	1000
	3	4	5	40	IE Business School	Spain	4	168,923	108	9	243273	52	3	91,1899,698	78	9	-	380	631	980
	4	5	4	41	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	19	119,861	66	22	182226	47	1	114,44912,947	67	14	19	161	800	1000
	5	3	3	40	Insead	France	1	167,657	95	5 (2)	281,892 (316,057)	48 (58)	-	-	-	4	6	182	950	981
	6	6	7	61	SDA Bocconi	Italy	9	129,064	120	33	163053	44	9	75,4235,441	57	16	3	392	333	972
	7	8	8	80	Iese Business School	Spain	5	147,596	133	8	261150	72	-	-	-	2	1	271	793	1000
	8	6	5	61	Esade Business School	Spain	6	146,127	116	20	208950	34	8	74,8697,059	74	7	15	372	391	920
	9	10	13	110	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	11	120,625	98	26 (17)	134,538 (209,717)	61 (69)	10	79,2485,884	40	29	31	222	523	1000
	10	9	9	90	IMD	Switzerland	8	154,511	81	15	273151	49	-	-	-	1	2	142	950	1000
	11	13	14	136	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	2	164,462	107	10	217072	78	-	-	-	12	24	222	7311	962
	12	11	10	111	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	12	139,235	87	6	242985	75	-	-	-	3	14	171	591	1000
	13	12	11	120	ESCP Europe	FR / GB / DE / ES / IT	-	-	-	7	234080	62	6	78,2154,623	50	13	13	383	763	981
	14	14	25	181	Edhec Business School	France	23	113,502	77	45	122408	39	15	68,7087,570	47	19	11	393	476	901
	15	19	18	171	Mannheim Business School	Germany	18	113,829	73	(23)** (24)	(189,172) (161,120)	(48) (49)	11	93,47810,768	59	-	9	342	240	850
	15	22	19	191	Warwick Business School	UK	15	112,702	74	13	159464	92	20	60,9707,352	84	-	23	342	803	1000
	15	26	21	211	City University: Cass	UK	13	127,110	85	14	179463	75	17	71,20112,600	95	-	28	251	800	940
	18	21	16	181	ESMT Berlin	Germany	20	108,360	68	16	189046	53	-	-	-	5	7	211	791	1000
	19	15	15	161	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	30	97,960	72	38	124769	59	35	62,633885	45	17	16	292	3210	951
	20	16	12	162	Imperial College Business School	UK	16	112,865	72	21	144411	58	13	66,2765,745	63	-	33	311	952	1000
	21	17	20	192	Grenoble Ecole de Management	FR / RU / GE	28	101,596	76	28	141696	69	27	59,3761,464	44	31	32	422	443	907
	22	20	29	243	EMLyon Business School	France	34	94,692	54	42	137433	33	23	67,0597,015	39	27	20	343	471	952
	23	18	16	193	Essec Business School	France	-	-	-	24	161120	49	5	89,0673,702	54	11	8	311	552	990
	24	29	36	303	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	23	113,094	71	36	128552	51	14	68,90510,528	34	24	-	371	524	1000
	25	23	28	251	Nova School of Business and Economics	Portugal	20	118,442	88	43	136687	60	16	56,0675,352	53	28	29	352	332	1000
	26	23	26	250	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	20	118,442	88	43	136687	60	31	46,5921,603	62	22	21	366	433	950
	27	28	26	270	Stockholm School of Economics	SE / RU / LV	-	-	-	32	130153	50	21	65,8545,173	47	15	18	271	350	990
	28	27	24	261	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	37	95,814	76	53	92100	50	30	65,5656,761	52	23	27	269	583	776
	29	23	23	252	Tias Business School	Netherlands	32	86,636	63	52	120579	38	47	54,4712,983	49	30	30	232	433	900
	30	30	21	273	Cranfield School of Management	UK	17	123,773	77	-	-	-	40	54,175	56	18	10	313	6411	951
	31	37	35	342	Henley Business School	UK	-	-	-	27	158879	58	53	54,4525,996	76	10	17	461	502	871
	32	31	32	321	Aalto University	Finland	-	-	-	38	137471	40	37	61,3634,646	49	20	25	350	243	970
	33	35	41	362	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	-	-	-	51 (19)	142,261 (203,381)	25 (90)	65	63,6185,384	38	34	26	272	254	751
	34	34	31	331	University of Strathclyde Business School	UK	26	98,105	95	29	166970	66	54	49,7271,300	62	-	-	361	493	811
	35	38	40	381	NHH Norwegian School of Economics	Norway	-	-	-	46	127132	41	55	67,5446,515	43	24	38	262	301	994
	35	55	60	50	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	-	-	-	47	143778	34	34	88,223	32	35	37	171	244	1000
	37	32	37	351	WHU Beisheim	Germany	-	-	-	12	211075	58	7	106,1727,812	58	-	-	252	312	1000
	38	41	38	393	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	35	76,100	58	-	-	-	48	65,3424,047	56	24	35	282	152	950
	39	39	39	391	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	10	130,535	108	-	-	-	75	43,7553,141	40	-	22	361	441	901
	40	33	30	343	Kedge Business School	France	-	-	-	18	195447	94	42	54,3564,174	37	-	41	282	495	964
	41	42	45	431	Politecnico di Milano School of Management	Italy	39	75,922	43	54	114393	42	72	42,734590	55	36	36	372	93	770
	42	44	45	440	Antwerp Management School	Belgium	-	-	-	40	160318	35	25	61,1645,468	50	-	40	336	385	986
	42	45	44	440	HEC Lausanne	Switzerland	-	-	-	35	132716	29	18	74,71010,263	52	-	-	251	800	1000
	44	43	43	430	WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)	Austria	-	-	-	30	171240	33	12	71,0057,057	40	-	-	381	282	960
	45	48	53	490	Lancaster University Management School	UK	14	114,220	101	-	-	-	62	44,1485,652	51	-	-	310	540	951
	46	50	53	500	Neoma Business School	France	-	-	-	41	136556	54	33	58,5065,099	44	-	-	440	561	890
	47	49	50	492	Durham University Business School	UK	25	104,321	75	-	-	-	38	54,3062,264	76	-	-	373	670	971
	48	40	33	405	HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management	Germany	38	86,316	63	-	-	-	19	99,04711,247	44	-	-	202	171	1000
	48	50	55	518	University of Edinburgh Business School	UK	27	102,804	67	-	-	-	43	52,7443,013	60	-	-	411	624	943
	50	52	48	501	Ashridge Executive Education at Hult	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	12	3810	5721	6224
	51	35	34	402	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	36	92,940	36	-	-	-	31	68,9653,876	46	-	-	330	391	864
	51	47	49	494	Toulouse Business School	France	-	-	-	49	116696	47	39	58,8094,146	40	-	-	400	431	902
	53	63	-	-	Rennes School of Business	France	-	-	-	50	121843	22	46	54,6891,020	36	-	-	341	916	919
	53	56	52	542	Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management	Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	58,4913,323	51	32	-	254	383	940
	55	58	56	562	University of Bath School of Management	UK	31	100,824	61	-	-	-	63	47,0406,836	51	-	-	322	641	1002
	56	53	56	551	Leeds University Business School	UK	32	79,728	76	-	-	-	51	42,8421,037	54	-	-	413	444	863
	57	64	60	602	St Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management	Russia	-	-	-	56	81988	5	21	57,9354,405	82	-	-	544	41	901
	58	57	59	581	Skema Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	62,1887,906	46	-	39	407	444	801
	59	62	62	610	Porto Business School	Portugal	-	-	-	55	81447	33	-	-	-	33	34	311	81	856
	60	60	63	611	Audencia Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	70,0507,900	55	-	-	463	477	876
	61	59	58	592	Iéseg School of Management	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	54,1294,353	44	-	-	461	861	1000
	62	60	63	621	Maastricht University School of Business and Economics	Netherlands	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	65,5164,538	39	-	-	231	566	990
	62	72	65	662	University of Zurich	Switzerland	-	-	-	30	146918	38	-	-	-	-	-	113	872	1000
	64	45	45	517	Kozminski University	Poland	-	-	-	34	167100	60	-	-was 74,664	-	-	-	384	193	873
	65	67	66	661	Koç University Graduate School of Business	Turkey	-	-	-	37	179444	51	-	-	-	-	-	463	252	964
	66	67	74	693	IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	41	53,4644,294	43	-	-	377	183	922
	67	67	68	671	Montpellier Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	44	50,1454,261	37	-	-	471	531	987
	67	66	72	682	ICN Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	45	52,6632,446	34	-	-	453	502	883
	69	73	70	710	Birmingham Business School	UK	29	99,765	80	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	364	451	931
	70	67	66	684	Institut Mines-Télécom Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	49	56,1544,720	28	-	-	481	517	755
	71	65	69	681	Louvain School of Management	Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	50	57,321176	26	-	-	383	222	1000
	71	71	73	72	Essca School of Management	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	52	53,4571,501	35	-	-	382	532	921
	71	75	75	740	Sabanci University School of Management	Turkey	-	-	-	48	153338	37	-	-	-	-	-	472	2818	1000
	71	78	76	751	University of Cologne Faculty of Management	Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	56	76,6805,972	35	-	-	211	81	10012
	75	76	79	77	EM Normandie	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	57	50,8245,155	42	-	-	471	316	764
	76	74	-	-	Université Paris-Dauphine	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	58	56,9854,993	24	-	-	411	211	943
	76	81	76	781	Hanken School of Economics	Finland	-	-	-	-	-	-	61	51,7722,029	33	-	-	353	181	921
	76	82	79	791	Corvinus University of Budapest	Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	60	45,632137	69	-	-	440	82	833
	76	83	82	801	Warsaw School of Economics	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	58	48,0902,716	89	-	-	440	10	983
	80	-	-	-	ISCTE Business School	Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	72	39,738	48	37	-	47	9	98
	81	76	71	762	La Rochelle Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	64	50,6904,196	37	-	-	561	502	694
	82	-	-	-	Brunel Business School	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	66	44,623	61	-	-	34	56	95
	82	83	-	-	EM Strasbourg Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	68	49,5524,259	38	-	-	594	231	771
	82	83	42	698	University of Bradford School of Management	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	67	41,9903,152	44	-	-	441	285	863
	85	79	83	82	Burgundy School of Business	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	69	47,8762,296	31	-	-	443	406	756
	86	87	-	-	University of Exeter Business School	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	71	48,1523,263	43	-	-	342	491	864
	86	88	81	853	University of Economics, Prague	Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	70	38,542203	70	-	-	457	72	852
	88	92	-	-	DCU Business School	Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	74	46,013	34	-	-	49	13	80
	88	90	-	-	Tilburg University	Netherlands	-	-	-	-	-	-	76	55,8385,900	33	-	-	191	411	838
	90	94	-	-	Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	77	33,822	59	-	-	40	60	73
	90	86	84	87	ESC Clermont	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	78	46,9421,023	32	-	-	580	3410	684
	92	-	-	-	Nottingham Business School at NTU	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	79	32,316	30	-	-	46	32	60
	93	-	-	-	Luiss University	Italy	-	-	-	-	-	-	80	44,827	69	-	-	26	11	49
	94	-	-	-	KU Leuven Faculty of Economics and Business	Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	81	45,894	24	-	-	38	9	88
	95	-	-	-	ISC Paris	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	82	45,961	26	-	-	47	26	79
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Table notes# Figure in brackets refers to data from separate joint-programme for schools with more than one programme ranked. †Salary increase from graduation. ‡ Data are provided for information only. Most recently published data are given *School was ranked outside the final ranking table in 2017. **School participated in this ranking on the basis of a joint programme only. Underlying score based on proportion of total score. The heavier horizontal lines denote the pattern of clustering among the schools, based on significant differences in ranking scores. Around 200 points separate London Business School at the top from the school ranked number 95.The top 12 business schools, from LBS to University of Oxford: Saïd form the top group. The second group is headed by ESCP Europe include 68 schools. The remaining 15 schools in the third group are headed by La Rochelle Business School.

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1. Average MBA alumni salary three years after graduation, US$ by purchasing power parity (PPP). Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, where available.

2. Percentage increase in average alumni salary pre-MBA to today, three years after graduation. Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, if available.

3. # Figure in brackets refers to data from additional joint-programmes for schools with more than one ranked programme.

4. ‡ Data are provided for information only. Most recently published data are given.

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