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Executive Education - Customised - 2011

	Rank '11	Rank' 10^[1]	Rank '09^[1]	3 yr. rank^[2]	School	Country	Preparation^[3]	Prog. design^[4]	Materials^[5]	Faculty^[6]	Skills^[7]	Follow-up^[8]	Aims achieved^[9]	Facilities^[10]	Value^[11]	Future use^[12]	Int. clients^[13]	Intl. part.^[14]	Intl. progs^[15]	Partners^[16]	Fac. diversity^[17]	Total Responses^[18]	Revenue ($m)^[19]
	1	1	1	1	Duke Corporate Education	U.S.A. / South Africa / U.K. / India	1	1	1	3	5	14	3	11	7	5	8	10	2	4	14	30 (3)	39.3
	2	2	2	2	HEC Paris	France	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	14	1	4	20	11	26	9	5	55 (3)	-
	3	8	16	9	Fundação Dom Cabral	Brazil	3	3	5	8	3	2	7	2	2	3	49	41	50	7	37	33 (3)	48.1
	4	3	3	3	Harvard Business School	U.S.A.	5	6	3	2	2	27	2	3	4	10	13	12	47	12	28	44 (3)	121.1***
	5	3	8	5	Esade Business School	Spain	9	4	7	4	15	12	9	12	9	6	7	6	13	13	31	31 (3)	19.1*
	5	5	4	5	IMD	Switzerland	6	13	6	7	11	20	6	6	12	11	10	4	32	39	1	39 (3)	-
	7	15	6	9	Iese Business School	Spain	10	15	13	18	19	8	16	7	19	8	2	9	5	3	2	60 (3)	-
	8	17	32	19	Boston University School of Management	U.S.A.	4	5	4	5	7	16	8	4	3	1	21	38	56	20	23	23 (3)	-
	9	8	5	7	Insead	France / Singapore	15	19	14	16	18	30	13	20	27	19	3	8	16	1	3	33 (3)	-
	10	6	14	10	Center for Creative Leadership	U.S.A. / Belgium / Singapore	21	26	11	9	10	28	4	1	13	7	50	2	30	11	42	30 (3)	-
	11	10	6	9	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	U.S.A.	11	11	17	17	6	17	5	19	11	13	14	21	20	14	40	27 (3)	-
	12	7	13	11	Cranfield School of Management	U.K.	17	21	21	20	28	13	21	35	24	16	16	1	1	2	17	55 (3)	-
	13	11	10	11	Ipade	Mexico	8	12	10	14	4	22	11	9	6	12	19	48	59	48	55	30 (3)	-
	14	13	15	14	Essec Business School	France / Singapore	23	23	20	22	12	5	12	25	18	20	28	22	6	5	15	24 (3)	9.5*
	15	12	11	13	Babson Executive Education	U.S.A.	16	10	8	6	8	25	10	16	10	15	35	43	22	48	41	28 (3)	-
	16	29	17	21	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	U.S.A.	7	8	9	10	16	23	15	5	5	18	64	31	25	48	36	24 (3)	-
	17	25	28	23	Columbia Business School	U.S.A.	12	7	18	13	9	21	14	41	16	32	11	42	35	48	19	21 (3)	-
	17	21	32	23	University of Oxford: Saïd	U.K.	19	14	19	19	13	9	17	29	20	29	12	26	8	27	35	39 (3)	13.5**
	19	18	28	22	IE Business School	Spain	14	17	24	24	17	3	18	30	14	17	47	36	21	23	10	72 (3)	9*
	20	16	11	16	Ashridge	U.K.	26	16	16	23	25	15	19	26	31	27	38	5	7	22	7	40 (3)	35**
	21	24	24	23	Thunderbird School of Global Management	U.S.A.	18	24	22	12	29	65	25	28	8	33	1	47	37	30	8	31 (3)	-
	22	22	19	21	University of Chicago: Booth	U.S.A. / U.K. / Singapore	32	31	28	28	22	19	24	17	17	22	15	13	40	30	51	26 (3)	5.7*
	23	34	44	34	ESMT - European School of Management and Technology	Germany	28	18	26	27	44	11	28	21	33	28	43	23	28	48	16	38 (3)	7.7*
	24	18	-	-	IAE Business School	Argentina	20	28	12	25	26	55	26	8	21	45	6	25	48	17	38	30 (2)	3.8*
	24	13	27	21	Insper	Brazil	13	29	25	30	20	45	27	10	23	2	31	62	44	48	58	23 (3)	-
	26	-	19	-	Wisconsin School of Business	U.S.A.	22	9	15	15	14	6	22	13	26	64	63	60	43	39	54	11 (2)	-
	27	27	21	25	Western University: Ivey	Canada / China	33	27	23	11	39	47	29	15	32	23	45	35	59	48	30	25 (3)	-
	28	25	26	26	Kelley Executive Partners at Indiana University	U.S.A.	34	32	29	32	43	4	36	24	28	36	53	20	24	9	33	21 (3)	-
	29	30	25	28	London Business School	U.K.	43	38	43	38	38	57	30	40	48	14	4	14	4	23	11	28 (3)	21.1
	29	50	35	38	University of Virginia: Darden	U.S.A.	31	37	30	21	31	29	20	18	30	48	59	7	39	30	60	20 (3)	14**
	31	35	47	38	Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM)	Australia	27	40	27	26	35	34	32	23	35	50	52	53	38	36	9	21 (3)	-
	32	27	-	-	ESCP Europe	France / U.K. / Germany / Spain / Italy	24	33	42	37	23	51	34	27	47	46	32	3	31	18	13	35 (2)	-
	32	18	8	19	Northwestern University: Kellogg	U.S.A.	30	22	31	39	21	50	35	36	22	40	56	29	41	48	27	39 (3)	-
	32	42	30	35	Stanford Graduate School of Business	U.S.A.	38	20	34	31	33	59	23	31	46	30	30	33	46	39	18	26 (3)	-
	35	38	37	37	EMLyon Business School	France	25	41	33	36	37	42	43	57	39	26	37	17	9	39	12	25 (3)	-
	36	57	-	-	UCLA: Anderson	U.S.A.	37	35	38	33	24	33	41	32	15	54	23	34	26	39	20	10 (2)	-
	37	23	18	26	SDA Bocconi	Italy	40	39	44	45	34	10	46	60	36	25	26	30	29	14	24	52 (3)	17.6*
	38	40	22	33	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	44	44	46	44	48	18	40	33	37	44	39	19	17	8	59	46 (3)	7.6
	39	-	-	-	FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração	Brazil	35	25	37	41	30	26	48	58	25	41	24	64	59	48	62	13 (3)	14*
	40	-	-	-	Politecnico di Milano School of Management	Italy	29	43	39	43	27	7	33	37	40	53	33	52	49	30	61	18 (2)	7.1
	41	53	52	49	York University: Schulich	Canada	39	34	36	34	47	48	45	51	38	43	48	63	55	36	4	29 (3)	-
	42	32	40	38	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	48	47	32	49	41	40	44	49	45	38	18	15	22	23	45	39 (3)	-
	43	45	54	47	Warwick Business School	U.K.	41	36	41	40	36	36	47	43	51	24	51	55	59	39	29	19 (3)	6.4**
	44	46	-	-	Henley Business School	U.K.	46	30	35	35	40	24	38	50	49	60	27	45	18	48	43	22 (2)	-
	45	43	38	42	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	42	49	45	48	50	39	42	38	41	9	35	46	59	48	49	48 (3)	4.1
	46	47	36	43	Tias	Netherlands	45	42	50	50	42	35	52	47	34	31	60	24	14	36	47	43 (3)	-
	46	52	51	50	Queen's School of Business	Canada	51	52	40	42	51	32	51	34	29	47	44	44	51	30	22	19 (3)	-
	48	40	32	40	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	36	48	48	46	55	49	50	22	54	35	42	37	10	48	34	42 (3)	5.8
	49	51	41	47	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	50	46	47	51	46	61	37	44	42	34	40	16	15	48	32	43 (3)	6.5*
	50	-	22	-	University of Michigan: Ross	U.S.A.	52	54	51	29	45	44	31	42	59	63	9	49	44	39	57	12 (2)	-
	51	36	45	44	Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza	Australia	54	53	52	47	53	37	39	55	52	37	55	50	33	6	25	38 (3)	19.3*
	51	47	43	47	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	U.S.A.	53	50	49	55	32	54	53	39	50	39	22	54	41	23	39	19 (3)	-
	53	49	-	-	University of Cape Town GSB	South Africa	49	45	55	52	54	46	55	65	43	21	29	32	12	20	44	26 (3)	-
	54	33	31	39	MIT: Sloan	U.S.A.	47	56	56	54	52	58	54	59	63	55	5	18	11	39	48	16 (3)	19**
	55	56	53	55	Aalto University	Finland / S. Korea / Singapore	59	57	53	57	49	62	49	53	44	51	54	27	3	48	56	31 (3)	3.8
	56	59	65	60	Ceibs	China	58	58	57	56	59	52	56	54	58	42	17	56	57	27	6	25 (3)	-
	57	58	64	60	Irish Management Institute	Ireland	55	55	61	58	56	43	59	56	56	56	57	28	34	48	45	31 (3)	3.1**
	58	65	59	61	Macquarie Graduate School of Management	Australia	62	51	54	53	62	56	58	52	53	57	25	57	54	48	64	28 (3)	-
	59	55	-	-	Grenoble Graduate School of Business	France	57	63	63	59	60	53	57	45	61	62	46	39	19	19	26	19 (2)	2.4*
	60	59	57	59	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	61	61	60	62	61	41	64	63	60	49	41	40	59	16	21	43 (3)	2.2
	61	61	58	60	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	60	60	58	61	58	63	61	46	57	52	61	58	36	27	52	44 (3)	17.6
	62	54	47	54	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	65	62	59	60	57	60	60	48	62	59	57	51	52	30	50	19 (3)	-
	63	62	63	63	USB Executive Development	South Africa	56	59	65	63	64	38	63	61	55	58	34	65	59	39	63	20 (3)	-
	64	63	59	62	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	63	64	62	65	63	31	62	64	64	61	62	61	58	48	53	27 (3)	9.1**
	65	-	-	-	Porto Business School	Portugal	64	65	64	64	65	64	65	62	65	65	65	59	53	48	65	10 (1)	2.7*
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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 365 points separate the top school, Duke Corporate Education, from the school ranked number 65. The top 15 business schools, from Duke CE to Babson Executive Education, form the top group of custom providers. The second group is lead by UNC:Kenan-Flager and the third by York University:Schulich. The top and bottom schools in the second group are separated by 92 points; in the third group there is a 183 point gap between top and bottom.

Footnotes

1. 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.

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