Footnotes1. Includes revenue from food
2. Includes revenue from food and accomodation
3. These data are for information only.
4. The level of interaction with the business school; the extent to which purchasers’ ideas were integrated into the programme; and the effectiveness of the business school in integrating its latest research into the programme.
5. The flexibility of the course and the willingness of business schools to complement their own faculty with specialists and practitioners.
6. Contemporary and appropriate teaching materials and a suitable mix of academic rigour and practical relevance.
7. The quality of the teaching and the extent to which teaching staff worked together to present a coherent programme.
8. The relevance of new skills to the workplace, the ease with which they were implemented and the extent to which the course encouraged new ways of thinking.
9. The level of follow-up offered after the course participants returned to their workplace.
10. The degree to which academic and business expectations were met.
11. The quality of food and accommodation.
12. The quality of the teaching accommodation, IT and library facilities.
13. Purchaser’s rating, in terms of value for money, of the course design, teaching materials and food and accommodation.
14. Purchasers were asked to rate the likelihood that they a participant would use the same business school again and if they would or use that business school to do the same programme again.
15. Custom programmes with participants from more than one country.
16. Custom programmes that have been taught in more than one country.
17. Custom programmes developed or taught in conjunction with other business schools.
18. The mix of faculty by nationality and gender.
19. Amalgamates the percentage of clients headquartered outside the business school’s base
country and region (e.g. North America, Europe, South America).
20. The number of individual surveys completed by clients of the business school. Figure in brackets indicates the total number of years of survey data included in the ranking.
These data are provided for information only.
21. Income from customised programmes in 2008 in millions of $US. For schools based outside the US figures are based on average dollar currency exchange rates for 2008.
These data are provided for information only.