Footnotes1. These data are provided for information only and do not form part of the 2011 ranking.
2. These data are included for information only and do not form part of the final ranking.
3. 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.
4. The flexibility of the course and the willingness of business schools to complement their own faculty with specialists and practitioners.
5. Contemporary and appropriate teaching materials and a suitable mix of academic rigour and practical relevance.
6. The quality of the teaching and the extent to which teaching staff worked together to present a coherent programme.
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 the course participants returned to their workplaces.
9. The degree to which academic and business expectations were met, and the feedback from individual participants.
10. The quality of the teaching, accommodation, IT and library facilities.
11. Purchasers’ rating, in terms of value for money, of the course design, teaching materials and food and accommodation.
12. Purchasers were asked to rate the likelihood that they would use the same business school again, and whether they would use that business school to do the same programme again.
13. This criterion amalgamates the percentage of clients with headquarters outside the business school’s base country and region (for example, North America, Europe or Latin America).
14. Customised programmes with participants from more than one country.
15. Customised programmes that have been taught in more than one country.
16. Customised programmes developed or taught in conjunction with other business schools.
17. The mix of faculty by nationality and gender.
18. The number of individual surveys completed by clients of the business school. Figures in brackets indicate the total number of years of survey data included in the ranking.
These data are provided for information only.
19. Income from customised programmes in 2010 in $m. Figures are based on average dollar currency exchange rates for 2010.
These data are provided for information only.