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Executive Education - Customised - 2015

	2015	2014	2013	3 year average	School	Country	Preparation^[1]	Prog. design^[2]	Teaching	Faculty^[3]	Skills^[4]	Follow-up^[5]	Aims achieved^[6]	Facilities^[7]	Value^[8]	Future use^[9]	Intl. clients^[10]	Intl. part.^[11]	Intl. progs.^[12]	Partner schools^[13]	Fac. diversity^[14]	Total Responses	Custom Revenue ($m)
	1	3	3	2	Iese Business School	Spain	22	30	51	41	61	72	40	64	34	96	31	51	53	30	10	39 (3)	-
	2	2	2	2	HEC Paris	France	11	10	20	30	21	31	10	3012	76	60	210	101	237	2819	51	37 (3)	-
	3	1	1	2	Duke Corporate Education	US / UK / South Africa	109	53	1312	1413	139	4027	1411	1410	97	149	91	30	15	20	131	39 (3)	-
	4	9	17	10	London Business School	UK	48	141	123	51	97	225	58	418	814	812	102	82	21	213	60	49 (3)	73.5***
	5	12	-	-	Mannheim Business School	Germany	146	166	14	16	413	15	29	4916	24	21	637	260	178	3539	659	13 (2)	-
	6	5	6	6	IMD Business School	Switzerland	123	114	71	71	111	1210	64	126	121	2010	132	61	281	5934	20	48 (3)	-
	7	11	15	11	SDA Bocconi	Italy	38	68	83	1110	101	41	126	119	54	512	342	353	441	137	211	37 (3)	-
	8	4	5	6	Center for Creative Leadership	US / Belgium / Singapore / Russia	83	137	30	132	52	166	102	32	183	100	3115	10	292	7143	270	26 (3)	-
	9	9	8	9	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	US	62	40	91	22	32	321	33	44	12	113	784	3813	510	740	481	29 (3)	21.7**
	10	7	8	8	Cranfield School of Management	UK	72	71	100	122	183	158	160	5014	166	195	262	123	43	70	395	44 (3)	-
	11	21	22	18	Insead	France / Singapore	2210	2214	206	154	1614	3117	173	160	257	372	11	71	1114	3111	30	39 (3)	-
	12	6	4	7	Esade Business School	Spain	298	283	286	274	266	111	337	177	233	120	80	92	84	43	80	33 (3)	-
	13	13	12	13	Ipade Business School	Mexico	52	23	43	90	11	706	72	21	61	73	422	686	804	7425	761	36 (3)	-
	13	15	17	15	University of Chicago: Booth	US / UK / Singapore	130	101	192	255	154	252	157	74	101	311	174	2912	4515	4133	4719	40 (3)	-
	15	-	-	-	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	21	17	6	10	54	2	31	37	4	1	54	63	62	26	79	11 (1)	-
	16	-	-	-	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	19	18	23	22	14	5	18	13	15	13	14	54	48	23	26	19 (1)	-
	17	19	23	20	Edhec Business School	France	91	84	152	64	71	1023	96	52	135	414	845	690	574	740	771	26 (3)	-
	18	18	13	16	Harvard Business School	US	172	258	142	84	203	5610	81	84	143	230	116	166	2423	500	4115	65 (3)	165.4***
	18	31	55	35	MIT: Sloan	US	1112	1214	1114	1620	816	2740	1315	1012	1728	4410	54	458	5220	480	590	30 (3)	21.1
	20	22	19	20	Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU	US	18	26	17	20	23	20	19	47	19	40	4	13	10	61	9	42 (3)	-
	21	17	34	24	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	162	154	182	198	120	1829	252	217	1110	342	4433	267	3518	114	4527	26 (3)	5.1*
	22	16	11	16	Ashridge Executive Education at Hult	UK	241	203	223	305	293	141	262	258	413	364	322	20	31	4526	142	46 (3)	33.3**
	23	23	19	22	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	151	91	162	171	171	2911	112	437	294	454	4613	208	180	680	4310	50 (3)	25.4**
	24	19	7	17	Babson Executive Education	US	236	214	254	237	211	213	232	313	224	151	167	621	401	100	547	31 (3)	-
	25	25	32	27	Essec Business School	France / Singapore	286	243	372	353	195	196	274	345	313	316	376	283	122	222	235	33 (3)	-
	26	40	39	35	Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza	Australia	267	2713	2113	269	3014	91	3010	368	2719	569	4929	561	1512	1525	372	31 (3)	-
	27	51	30	36	ESMT Berlin	Germany	2018	2321	2628	289	3224	4312	2021	232	2823	3313	576	1112	451	3040	2410	47 (3)	-
	28	56	38	41	ESCP Europe	France / UK / Germany / Spain / Italy	3727	3327	3924	3821	3321	3337	3518	3517	3916	3516	301	40	161	2714	161	43 (3)	-
	29	50	44	41	Henley Business School	UK	3815	343	2716	3612	2824	68	3615	3924	3713	592	72	430	385	5122	4618	35 (3)	-
	30	39	29	33	IAE Business School	Argentina	3010	4510	3010	372	532	4821	468	16	495	2815	159	2210	3423	2533	4212	34 (3)	-
	31	29	31	30	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	4712	325	383	474	496	5210	221	421	343	4216	434	3317	93	14	615	33 (3)	-
	32	33	53	39	University of Michigan: Ross	US	532	534	293	185	375	282	282	2715	2615	267	2913	601	426	5314	567	27 (3)	-
	33	27	16	25	Fundação Dom Cabral	Brazil	251	193	344	321	223	269	404	4825	452	220	692	470	605	381	311	38 (3)	-
	34	34	-	-	Ceibs	China	337	3011	424	488	351	3015	455	585	245	254	241	642	693	6224	103	38 (2)	-
	35	47	56	46	Emory University: Goizueta	US	3121	3721	3512	218	251	4211	296	269	2115	4713	8040	1515	8024	749	732	17 (3)	-
	36	32	24	31	University of Virginia: Darden	US	367	357	339	240	341	6522	247	1512	203	512	6812	575	318	336	727	43 (3)	-
	37	43	49	43	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	274	2914	510	3313	2416	666	349	205	507	6712	482	198	217	664	404	40 (3)	5.7*
	38	36	26	33	UCLA: Anderson	US	451	384	327	414	315	3915	417	458	351	5815	5318	448	254	249	3412	33 (3)	-
	38	47	58	48	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	3211	3612	316	3910	274	239	555	226	307	2114	629	702	723	7429	758	41 (3)	-
	40	55	63	53	Incae Business School	Costa Rica / Nicaragua	567	515	496	514	4211	4629	574	1813	595	411	61	3915	5912	704	41	24 (3)	-
	41	28	40	36	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	5222	4224	5810	5828	3920	4925	3215	337	4712	3817	333	310	194	85	5210	21 (3)	-
	42	37	28	36	Columbia Business School	US	423	4117	537	341	363	5716	4310	5213	5810	549	206	2311	6412	914	1918	26 (3)	-
	43	38	43	41	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	461	391	445	442	406	4711	397	591	422	247	474	174	2716	4226	4919	54 (3)	8.3
	44	-	-	-	Peking University: Guanghua	China	40	52	24	31	47	8	21	53	32	63	74	66	63	39	81	5 (1)	-
	45	45	33	41	Western University: Ivey	Canada / China	446	314	461	291	514	7612	448	320	385	5010	399	467	782	677	185	34 (3)	-
	46	44	24	38	Boston University: Questrom	US	509	5712	544	402	381	6711	371	4613	461	554	129	181	333	1712	5512	22 (3)	-
	47	26	21	31	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	557	599	5022	4317	5729	7233	4223	283	5412	4619	237	217	201	62	507	38 (3)	-
	48	62	-	-	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	4116	4916	4715	6013	4818	2414	539	2911	558	3927	181	580	8012	742	3315	28 (3)	-
	49	52	36	46	Insper	Brazil	395	477	4812	537	4118	458	543	910	337	490	551	826	6425	6450	5732	29 (3)	-
	50	41	27	39	EMLyon Business School	France	542	554	404	566	444	689	475	779	565	187	384	2510	72	6523	152	32 (3)	-
	51	61	54	55	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	5110	608	556	499	5010	447	526	447	527	2717	457	3214	3017	2036	2212	52 (3)	5.3
	52	30	51	44	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	US	4316	409	367	422	5820	6314	4910	559	3622	5338	3610	4020	5519	554	583	29 (3)	-
	53	53	52	53	Gordon Institute of Business Science at UP	South Africa	3421	439	457	540	4612	626	504	5113	535	1618	516	414	3913	3619	676	45 (3)	-
	54	59	45	53	AGSM at UNSW Business School	Australia	352	461	521	465	609	172	515	845	6512	697	5220	5511	3238	57	112	21 (3)	-
	55	24	41	40	Washington University: Olin	US	4931	4837	4320	4530	4530	7826	3824	2411	4024	2922	8315	619	7424	7220	802	19 (3)	4.1**
	56	64	65	62	University of Cape Town: Graduate School of Business	South Africa	4810	568	657	648	565	592	6113	714	607	1711	253	5012	4514	143	329	22 (3)	-
	57	-	-	-	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	India	59	58	57	52	43	64	60	38	51	43	21	83	49	34	85	22 (2)	4.1**
	58	54	41	51	Aalto University	Finland / Singapore	655	545	411	503	5211	551	484	561	434	728	672	5112	2215	740	701	39 (3)	6
	59	58	48	55	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	US	584	504	562	551	555	719	594	5411	481	615	2810	743	550	297	645	33 (3)	-
	60	60	-	-	Imperial College Business School	UK	578	445	645	577	611	5423	563	659	690	6528	6629	245	5018	7453	73	20 (2)	-
	61	66	66	64	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	616	655	592	625	626	537	629	8210	578	522	509	364	713	448	309	40 (3)	-
	62	42	46	50	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	6226	6329	6029	6127	5914	6026	5829	644	4418	8426	591	736	804	526	366	18 (3)	-
	63	70	-	-	QUT Business School	Australia	645	6110	636	650	706	6919	706	408	824	730	4012	5221	582	583	1714	32 (3)	5.4*
	64	69	68	67	Irish Management Institute	Ireland	704	681	661	690	730	341	694	7415	730	576	5612	534	2616	320	387	54 (3)	-
	65	79	70	71	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	6811	727	6811	726	6314	4124	6611	579	6314	743	712	595	1314	1924	6012	46 (3)	-
	66	67	47	60	Tias Business School	Netherlands	662	621	705	685	641	506	651	816	611	326	772	3018	415	4713	519	36 (3)	-
	67	-	-	-	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	72	69	77	79	67	51	72	66	75	71	2	49	35	18	29	18 (1)	-
	68	72	56	65	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	694	664	619	671	663	732	684	803	680	772	2735	144	6430	7465	2724	49 (3)	-
	69	73	-	-	Nova School of Business and Economics	Portugal	743	703	622	638	696	834	636	602	6212	620	408	487	8017	609	629	33 (2)	2.3*
	70	77	-	-	Alberta School of Business	Canada	606	6414	735	5911	772	613	735	6110	675	801	734	846	674	687	355	25 (2)	5.4*
	70	63	59	64	Porto Business School	Portugal	634	676	715	665	714	3615	769	739	777	6012	7915	7714	7614	124	8414	89 (3)	-
	72	-	-	-	Sun Yat-sen Business School	China	67	74	69	71	72	13	78	68	64	78	82	76	35	37	62	20 (1)	9.4
	73	78	-	-	Wits Business School	South Africa	717	716	723	737	753	774	6415	791	665	3048	643	809	5441	5630	191	11 (2)	5.0*
	73	68	64	68	USB Executive Development	South Africa	771	773	754	751	795	379	757	195	719	484	7028	8525	7711	731	7119	29 (3)	-
	75	75	62	71	Universidad Adolfo Ibanez	Chile	753	761	762	783	760	583	715	722	801	681	198	6746	7018	570	6810	27 (3)	-
	76	65	50	64	Politecnico di Milano School of Management	Italy	7813	7812	796	7412	7411	3818	7714	755	7418	7514	6029	713	5318	4911	781	42 (3)	-
	77	76	-	-	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	732	752	743	761	684	7546	741	760	724	798	8112	725	730	545	4424	48 (3)	10.6**
	78	71	67	72	NHH Norwegian School of Economics	Norway	766	731	671	704	787	8219	672	7070	704	768	8519	750	613	4311	730	22 (3)	-
	79	-	-	-	Lagos Business School	Nigeria	82	79	78	77	82	79	82	62	76	64	35	78	80	63	66	10 (1)	2.2*
	80	74	60	71	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	792	815	815	806	8010	8012	799	694	838	839	583	347	148	1628	254	57 (3)	5.0*
	81	-	-	-	Kedge Business School	France	81	83	84	82	84	85	83	63	79	66	76	42	6	74	52	19 (2)	-
	82	-	69	-	Esan	Peru	84	82	80	81	81	35	81	85	78	70	75	81	79	74	69	11 (2)	3.2
	83	-	-	-	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	India	85	85	83	83	65	84	80	67	81	81	61	79	75	46	82	5 (1)	3.4**
	84	80	-	-	Skema Business School	France	833	844	855	845	855	742	844	833	844	822	647	3719	4311	4024	1212	28 (3)	-
	85	-	-	-	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	80	80	82	85	83	81	85	78	85	85	72	65	68	74	83	12 (1)	-
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Table notes† These data are provided for information only. For schools whose main headquarters are outside the US, figures are based on average dollar currency exchange rates for 2014. *Includes revenue from food. **Includes revenue from food and accommodation. ***Aggregate total for open and customised programmes. Although the headline ranking figures show changes in the data year to year, the pattern of clustering among the schools is equally significant. About 350 points separate the top school, Iese Business School, from the school ranked number 85. The top 10 business schools, from Iese to Cranfield School of Management, form the top group of custom providers. The second group is lead by Insead and the third by Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. The top and bottom schools in the second group are separated by 175 points; in the third group there is a 85-point gap between top and bottom.

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1. The level of interaction between client and school, the extent to which purchasers’ ideas were integrated into the programme, and the effectiveness of the school in integrating its latest research.

2. The flexibility of the course and the willingness of schools to complement their own faculty with specialists and practitioners.

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

4. The relevance of skills gained to the workplace, the ease with which they were implemented, and the extent to which the course encouraged new ways of thinking.

5. The extent and effectiveness of follow-up offered after the course participants returned to their workplaces.

6. The extent to which academic and business expectations were met, and the quality of feedback from individual participants to purchasers.

7. Rating of the learning environment’s quality and convenience, and of supporting resources and facilities.

8. Purchasers’ rating of the programme’s design, teaching and materials in terms of value for money.

9. The likelihood that clients would use the same school for future customised programmes, and whether they would use the school for the same programme.

10. The percentage of clients with headquarters outside the business school’s base country and region.

11. The extent to which customised programmes have participants from more than one country.

12. The international reach of the school’s customised programme teaching.

13. The quantity and quality of programmes developed or taught in conjunction with other business schools.

14. The mix of faculty by nationality and gender.

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