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Executive Education - open - 2010

	Rank '10	Rank '09^[1]	Rank '08^[1]	3 yr. rank^[1]	School	Country	Preparation^[2]	Course design^[3]	Materials^[4]	Faculty^[5]	Participants^[6]	Skills^[7]	Follow-up^[8]	Aims achieved^[9]	Food^[10]	Facilities^[11]	% Women^[12]	Intl. part.^[13]	Growth^[14]	Intl. location^[15]	Partners^[16]	Fac. diversity^[17]	Revenue ($m)^[18]
	1	2	2	2	University of Virginia: Darden	U.S.A.	1	1	1	1	7	1	14	1	1	2	29	31	19	55	44	47	-
	2	5	7	5	Iese Business School	Spain	13	11	10	16	24	2	1	7	10	4	43	6	6	2	1	1	42.8
	3	2	3	3	IMD	Switzerland	5	9	7	8	4	10	8	3	3	1	19	3	12	37	23	2	-
	4	1	1	2	Harvard Business School	U.S.A.	7	6	4	5	2	4	11	2	8	6	21	2	30	30	5	24	101.4^[19]
	5	11	-	-	Thunderbird School of Global Management	U.S.A.	2	2	2	3	1	5	19	6	31	18	50	29	55	1	44	6	-
	6	6	13	8	London Business School	U.K.	3	5	8	7	5	17	5	4	6	5	30	7	48	51	29	7	-
	7	7	6	7	Center for Creative Leadership	U.S.A. / Belgium / Singapore	8	3	5	2	14	7	4	5	14	26	41	27	40	13	39	43	-
	8	10	19	12	MIT: Sloan	U.S.A.	4	7	3	4	3	3	40	9	18	35	17	15	5	48	29	33	13.0^[20]
	9	13	15	12	Fundação Dom Cabral	Brazil	9	4	6	14	30	6	10	11	4	3	30	46	51	22	2	22	4.7^[21]
	10	16	25	17	Essec Business School	France / Singapore	16	21	16	28	17	8	3	16	22	7	46	26	17	8	32	31	-
	10	9	10	10	University of Western Ontario: Ivey	Canada / China	17	13	14	6	21	24	17	13	12	25	36	10	21	6	50	18	-
	12	8	3	8	Stanford Graduate School of Business	U.S.A.	6	16	12	10	6	22	30	8	2	20	27	5	60	31	9	33	-
	13	17	26	19	HEC Paris	France	25	26	13	12	15	9	29	10	42	36	31	9	4	13	15	5	-
	13	15	13	14	Northwestern University: Kellogg	U.S.A.	14	14	9	13	12	12	34	12	5	21	37	19	28	52	23	36	-
	15	4	5	8	IE Business School	Spain	21	25	32	21	23	13	2	20	30	9	35	17	11	18	8	11	11.3^[21]
	15	28	41	28	University of Oxford: Saïd	U.K.	23	17	17	11	10	16	20	14	23	11	19	12	32	17	16	19	6.5^[21]
	17	19	16	17	Insead	France / Singapore	19	24	21	17	9	27	26	15	37	12	19	1	29	28	9	3	-
	18	11	8	12	Columbia Business School	U.S.A.	24	10	15	15	11	25	28	17	26	32	31	4	57	20	11	13	-
	19	13	12	15	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	U.S.A.	18	22	19	19	8	26	16	19	9	16	33	21	45	43	25	39	-
	20	22	11	18	University of Chicago: Booth	U.S.A. / U.K. / Singapore	11	19	23	18	13	21	15	23	11	29	20	20	43	40	12	30	-
	21	-	-	-	ESMT European School of Management and Technology	Germany	28	31	11	22	26	44	12	22	32	8	17	29	3	38	29	12	6.0^[21]
	21	23	27	24	University of Michigan: Ross	U.S.A.	22	12	18	9	18	18	18	25	25	37	31	21	56	11	25	46	-
	23	26	32	27	Esade Business School	Spain	29	32	34	34	34	19	6	30	17	10	35	28	14	7	3	21	11.9^[20]
	24	19	20	21	Ceibs	China	20	36	29	29	27	23	23	37	36	23	29	36	7	33	6	8	16.8
	24	18	8	17	UCLA: Anderson	U.S.A.	12	15	20	25	16	15	33	18	20	34	38	41	59	55	50	31	-
	26	30	-	-	FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração	Brazil	10	8	22	30	43	14	25	36	33	13	46	56	9	55	44	52	11.3^[21]
	26	21	17	21	Queen's School of Business	Canada	26	29	26	26	28	39	9	26	15	27	34	54	15	16	35	14	-
	28	31	29	29	Cranfield School of Management	U.K.	30	30	33	27	25	32	7	24	28	19	27	35	52	44	44	45	-
	28	34	21	28	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	15	18	24	23	35	11	49	21	21	58	48	48	53	25	35	36	-
	30	25	18	24	SDA Bocconi	Italy	41	28	31	33	42	30	13	35	29	15	37	41	34	49	20	15	12.5^[21]
	31	36	27	31	ESCP Europe	France / U.K. / Germany / Spain / Italy	46	35	38	46	37	29	35	28	45	24	38	18	13	19	13	16	-
	31	31	32	31	IAE Business School	Argentina	32	39	41	35	44	37	31	32	19	14	23	15	37	12	7	25	6.2^[21]
	33	37	35	35	Henley Business School	U.K.	40	38	40	36	22	28	46	29	40	43	36	41	10	3	50	48	-
	33	29	30	31	Wisconsin School of Business	U.S.A.	35	23	30	20	36	34	27	27	13	46	25	56	35	54	50	59	-
	35	35	23	31	Ipade	Mexico	33	42	47	45	39	20	21	33	38	31	17	45	23	9	16	52	-
	36	47	-	-	Incae Business School	Costa Rica	48	47	42	42	19	31	47	41	46	22	36	21	26	5	50	17	-
	36	37	34	36	Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School	Belgium	27	33	35	38	41	35	37	39	34	40	30	48	16	42	42	25	10.6^[21]
	38	41	43	41	MBS - Mt. Eliza Executive Education	Australia	49	34	36	24	29	41	22	31	41	55	31	33	24	55	33	44	6.8^[20]
	39	42	42	41	Ashridge	U.K.	36	43	44	39	20	51	32	44	35	42	35	25	49	47	50	3	6.9^[20]
	40	52	-	-	Edhec Business School	France	42	46	37	43	38	36	24	42	55	17	19	11	41	3	50	57	2.6
	40	33	31	35	Universität St.Gallen	Switzerland	31	40	28	40	33	42	38	38	39	48	21	37	46	15	19	41	13.6
	42	-	-	-	Insper - Ibmec São Paulo	Brazil	44	20	27	32	56	43	44	47	24	41	38	59	39	44	25	40	2.0
	43	44	49	45	NHH	Norway	50	27	50	47	54	38	39	34	7	45	30	47	27	10	44	49	4.6
	44	42	39	42	York University: Schulich	Canada	45	41	39	37	32	47	57	52	27	56	42	41	42	32	4	8	-
	45	-	-	-	Boston University School of Management	U.S.A.	34	37	25	31	31	56	54	43	49	57	39	24	54	35	50	19	-
	46	48	45	46	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	38	45	48	44	58	46	36	40	43	53	50	50	25	26	42	54	11.5
	47	46	39	44	Aalto University School of Economics	Finland / S. Korea / Singapore	37	44	45	50	46	33	45	45	44	47	59	59	58	55	50	60	3.6
	48	40	37	42	EM Lyon Business School	France	51	48	43	48	48	48	48	46	59	28	29	32	22	39	16	27	4.9
	49	50	46	48	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	39	50	51	52	57	40	41	48	56	49	17	56	2	50	39	50	10.9^[20]
	50	-	-	-	Grenoble Graduate School of Business	France	59	56	54	55	47	53	50	49	48	30	37	13	1	28	22	35	-
	50	49	38	46	University of Pretoria: Gibs	South Africa	47	55	49	54	49	50	53	50	16	33	38	52	31	36	35	38	-
	52	50	44	49	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	43	51	52	53	50	54	42	56	47	38	45	39	36	41	35	55	5.1^[21]
	53	-	-	-	Wits Business School	South Africa	53	52	46	49	45	49	60	53	53	54	42	34	20	34	20	28	11.2^[21]
	54	53	48	52	Lagos Business School	Nigeria	55	54	53	51	53	52	43	51	52	51	24	52	8	44	25	41	3.8^[21]
	55	-	-	-	Universidad de los Andes	Columbia	52	53	55	56	55	55	51	55	51	39	40	14	47	20	14	56	-
	56	54	47	52	Australian School of Business: AGSM	Australia	54	49	56	41	40	59	52	54	50	60	35	39	44	24	50	8	-
	57	55	50	54	University of Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business	South Africa	57	57	57	57	51	57	59	57	54	59	38	38	17	27	44	58	-
	58	-	-	-	Centrum Católica	Peru	58	58	58	58	52	45	58	59	58	52	26	50	50	55	50	22	-
	59	-	-	-	Tilburg University: TiasNimbas	Netherlands	56	60	59	60	59	58	56	58	57	44	29	54	33	53	39	50	14.9^[21]
	60	-	-	-	Eada	Spain	60	59	60	59	60	60	55	60	60	50	30	7	38	23	33	28	6.0^[20]
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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 280 points separate the top school from the school ranked number 60. The top 17 schools, from University of Virginia: Darden to Insead, form the elite group of providers of open enrolment programmes. The second group runs from Columbia Business School to Ibmec São Paulo, ranked 42. Eighty points separate these two schools. The third group is headed by NHH.

Footnotes

1. These data are for information only and do not form part of the final ranking.

2. The provision of advanced information on programme content and the participant selection process.

3. The flexibility of the course and appropriateness of class size, structure and design.

4. Contemporary and appropriate teaching materials and a suitable mix of academic rigour and practical relevance.

5. The quality of the teaching and the extent to which teaching staff worked together to present a coherent programme.

6. The extent to which other participants were of the appropriate managerial/ academic level, the international mix of the class and the interaction between course participants.

7. 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.

8. The level of follow-up offered after participants returned to their workplace and networking opportunities with other participants.

9. The degree to which participant and company expectations were met.

10. The quality of food and accommodation.

11. The quality of teaching accommodation and IT and library facilities.

12. The percentage of female participants.

13. Amalgamates the percentage of participants from outside the business school’s base country and region (e.g. North America, Europe, Asia etc.).

14. Amalgamates growth in income and percentage of repeat business.

15. Programmes run outside the business school’s base country and region.

16. The quantity and quality of programmes taught in conjunction with other business schools.

17. The mix of faculty by nationality and gender.

18. Income from open programmes in 2009 in millions of $US. For schools based outside the US figures are based on average dollar currency exchange rates for 2009.
These data are given for information only and do not form part of the final ranking.

19. Aggregate total for open and customised programmes.

20. Includes revenue from food and accommodation

21. Includes revenue from food

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