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Executive Education - Open - 2020

	Rank in 2020	Rank in 2019	Rank in 2018	Three-year average rank	School	Country	Preparation^[1]	Course design^[2]	Teaching^[3]	Faculty^[4]	Participants^[5]	Skills^[6]	Follow-up^[7]	Aims achieved^[8]	Food^[9]	Facilities^[10]	Female participants (%)	Intl. part.^[11]	Growth	Intl. location^[12]	Partner schools^[13]	Fac. diversity^[14]
	1	1	1	10	IMD Business School	Switzerland / Singapore	73	44	13	20	42	39	83	44	21	35	27	60	290	375	436	53
	2	6	2	31	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	52	31	43	31	21	54	33	33	173	93	36	92	350	3625	162	716
	3	5	5	42	Insead	France / Singapore / Abu Dhabi	105	82	51	61	31	171	101	63	84	50	33	43	312	211	264	40
	3	4	6	42	University of Michigan: Ross	US	41	11	21	10	80	21	205	21	114	11	57	321	3838	201	307	428
	5	1	7	43	Stanford Graduate School of Business	US	31	131	61	52	10	42	156	10	10	64	33	100	423	568	369	537
	6	3	8	64	University of Chicago: Booth	US / Hong Kong / UK	21	74	121	72	71	76	143	105	31	40	32	183	1845	244	2112	324
	7	10	12	102	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	60	92	102	92	50	94	96	110	71	74	36	116	201	293	159	332
	8	11	14	111	HEC Paris	France	194	154	113	184	113	61	14	132	2013	810	44	81	126	12	71	60
	9	8	11	90	ESMT Berlin	Germany	10	105	85	80	100	205	121	53	42	21	29	298	578	4214	2213	3810
	10	6	3	62	Iese Business School	Spain / US	220	200	263	222	180	115	20	160	163	141	49	121	452	21	10	10
	11	9	22	142	Columbia Business School	US	207	114	134	45	61	168	2416	95	406	2011	35	53	2511	293	497	111
	12	22	16	172	UCLA Anderson School of Management	US	146	214	910	105	1410	110	1317	198	510	1311	44	262	6711	3213	4918	666
	13	14	19	151	Fundação Dom Cabral	Brazil	92	60	35	111	510	104	162	77	104	1712	36	362	4137	132	1910	463
	14	12	32	19	Washington University: Olin	US	84	54	75	126	174	193	306	81	95	1110	57	713	5247	731	497	5112
	15	16	21	171	Esade Business School	Spain	151	178	187	171	270	84	41	144	2511	485	49	204	3212	113	147	214
	16	21	23	203	Essec Business School	France	246	259	1512	3210	160	128	111	219	225	166	47	163	1751	82	51	180
	17	14	15	150	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	125	161	193	151	201	147	315	174	63	104	53	613	705	481	2720	162
	17	18	25	204	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	164	121	141	167	264	181	172	122	260	398	46	405	3919	162	610	590
	19	26	27	242	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	214	2210	229	204	120	315	294	235	154	242	37	154	448	697	497	90
	20	27	33	272	Western University: Ivey	Canada / China	188	1410	2017	138	357	3011	1913	157	194	158	41	6524	4722	72	2312	297
	21	16	13	174	London Business School	UK / UAE	3912	304	287	236	134	3913	219	307	4315	236	30	75	664	1416	32	34
	22	27	18	221	Henley Business School	UK	285	184	213	261	285	151	255	222	238	383	52	382	4818	359	496	388
	22	30	39	307	Hult Ashridge Executive Education	UK	380	1910	1614	145	92	2614	186	245	3610	378	38	175	681	5124	497	4314
	24	29	34	294	Kaist College of Business	South Korea	135	249	175	216	196	214	52	297	543	123	19	7011	5548	63	4934	754
	25	23	28	253	SDA Bocconi School of Management	Italy	291	313	304	350	215	221	62	310	294	211	47	242	501	629	1723	281
	26	24	28	261	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	113	296	246	311	561	336	280	203	132	183	33	395	712	261	497	302
	27	34	51	377	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	263	265	236	2810	404	134	264	183	531	422	31	6012	1120	644	3212	714
	27	-	31	-	Queen's University: Smith	Canada	30	33	27	25	38	24	37	27	18	29	46	59	74	14	49	25
	29	19	17	221	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	178	2813	2512	3911	308	2313	76	4015	4625	226	30	681	651	5411	497	672
	29	30	30	303	Ceibs	China / Switzerland / Ghana	232	352	383	409	341	381	235	445	337	250	38	2828	2346	229	454	121
	31	39	40	372	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	378	387	333	3014	456	257	272	364	289	331	38	485	592	610	372	472
	32	37	36	352	Cranfield School of Management	UK	332	237	353	1910	244	3713	414	257	371	497	25	423	750	752	497	5430
	32	38	45	387	Gordon Institute of Business Science at UP	South Africa	277	453	364	298	461	285	472	394	3210	1917	52	500	218	5215	457	631
	34	33	41	365	NHH Norwegian School of Economics	Norway	360	213	321	271	741	291	3211	282	127	518	45	635	443	468	497	516
	34	40	44	394	AGSM at UNSW Business School	Australia	476	324	340	246	423	4110	701	352	2111	5424	49	543	615	698	497	1721
	34	44	48	427	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	3514	3913	4013	3610	221	453	352	543	4219	3129	32	140	3339	4916	200	190
	37	35	25	325	IE Business School	Spain	401	345	492	446	399	4010	398	430	301	4114	41	135	5311	345	1814	144
	37	45	60	47	WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management	Germany	2510	2714	3115	3417	556	527	332	3214	389	285	22	253	367	437	497	605
	39	36	35	371	Incae Business School	Nicaragua / Costa Rica	532	656	556	571	156	436	382	557	481	447	66	21	622	42	913	21
	39	40	37	390	Edhec Business School	France	571	501	440	552	3310	277	221	383	515	275	10	39	3423	95	352	386
	41	51	37	435	ESCP Business School	France / UK / Spain / Italy / Germany / Poland	5411	4122	5414	609	2912	358	348	4113	581	509	42	225	2616	108	474	138
	42	32	23	323	Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU	US / Russia / Switzerland / UAE	5220	4914	4315	4815	255	5811	456	5117	505	5213	66	332	968	31	482	101
	42	43	48	442	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	316	371	421	430	493	3410	621	330	356	669	42	351	467	267	1313	457
	44	53	57	515	Universidad de los Andes School of Management	Colombia	507	552	399	533	4711	3213	401	607	412	353	52	412	2252	2516	4128	574
	45	40	43	431	York University: Schulich	Canada	555	488	507	415	375	624	515	450	314	675	36	435	616	264	83	83
	46	48	45	461	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	643	511	587	563	596	420	4810	571	651	564	43	13	3743	3922	40	265
	47	47	54	491	University of British Columbia: Sauder	Canada	608	548	575	509	360	670	582	535	243	4312	53	584	303	665	497	233
	47	57	57	543	Nova School of Business and Economics	Portugal	585	434	372	387	623	6113	654	567	563	4620	46	453	2830	3818	442	4915
	49	52	67	56	Rutgers Business School	US	461	403	562	463	413	4915	4318	528	523	716	52	733	86	400	494	701
	50	61	72	618	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	433	521	5311	661	522	552	6016	473	473	4711	53	302	541	676	3818	737
	50	53	-	-	University of Arizona: Eller	US	348	3622	2926	3322	319	5317	713	4921	551	753	36	348	1413	120	497	204
	52	50	47	505	Ipade Business School	Mexico	453	594	690	595	642	446	428	501	451	454	18	526	4912	194	21	616
	52	55	61	563	Tias Business School, Tilburg University	Netherlands	487	447	452	511	682	486	522	3710	4415	725	44	641	6910	2310	4228	311
	54	65	59	592	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	655	5811	4712	458	3217	609	6114	4820	619	627	34	312	5836	741	497	241
	55	49	64	563	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	India	421	422	637	422	651	365	725	705	142	4012	23	624	246	681	254	744
	55	66	71	644	IAE Business School	Argentina	566	638	735	546	671	5711	673	5813	3410	3610	30	4614	39	448	109	477
	55	69	-	-	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	329	4721	4630	6416	709	476	662	2626	571	7325	53	567	5438	521	491	502
	58	57	66	603	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	India	518	601	527	372	661	542	593	642	273	3010	20	556	5127	726	497	725
	59	71	-	-	Florida Atlantic University College of Business	US	4422	539	419	4912	238	649	6416	420	687	746	59	745	733	463	497	353
	60	57	68	621	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	752	662	517	695	507	460	569	623	704	551	41	233	439	174	125	150
	61	56	42	536	Aalto University	Finland	628	615	622	672	633	699	500	592	496	536	54	445	71	4510	111	624
	62	-	-	-	Moscow School of Management Skolkovo	Russia	41	73	75	61	58	73	44	72	64	32	39	57	1	5	33	43
	63	57	55	581	Alberta School of Business	Canada	6711	464	614	525	571	684	576	6111	594	709	45	745	6331	553	3321	353
	64	72	65	673	EMLyon Business School	France / Morocco / China / India	724	6811	666	706	4815	5011	466	4620	755	611	41	194	1935	182	2913	2719
	65	75	73	712	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	5910	5710	4815	5815	751	5916	752	3430	665	3434	63	537	1366	4126	497	564
	66	70	79	72	Audencia Business School	France	685	6410	673	653	439	656	4910	676	734	632	42	216	1612	3124	497	416
	67	67	78	71	Irish Management Institute	Ireland	731	564	593	633	612	630	733	663	399	582	51	495	4023	639	497	551
	67	74	75	722	American University in Cairo School of Business	Egypt	4915	702	721	4715	6011	726	5510	733	608	577	50	694	1556	6519	3917	353
	69	73	69	700	Lagos Business School	Nigeria	665	696	6011	687	693	6610	3619	695	623	641	35	6611	27	507	3120	653
	70	-	-	-	McGill University: Desautels	Canada	63	67	64	62	53	74	74	68	63	26	48	51	27	59	40	34
	71	64	73	69	Kedge Business School	France	691	751	714	729	447	567	534	638	720	685	63	674	107	594	497	582
	72	63	50	6210	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	6117	726	704	733	712	705	6310	742	690	658	49	272	6438	334	2413	215
	73	68	63	683	Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management	Belgium	703	716	654	743	544	511	688	6516	741	691	35	470	5633	6910	497	6412
	74	79	77	770	Politecnico di Milano School of Management	Italy	719	628	689	717	735	718	5412	714	718	5912	40	723	6012	584	497	686
	75	76	69	732	Porto Business School, University of Porto	Portugal	742	743	740	752	722	752	691	752	670	6010	49	3715	7258	5615	286	694
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Table notesFootnotes All categories show rank numbers except "Female participants (%)", which shows the percentage. Some 300 points separate the top school from the school ranked number 75. The schools are divided into three groups, indicated by bold lines. The difference in score between schools ranked consecutively is greater within groups one and three than in group two. The top 14 schools, from IMD to Washington University: Olin form the elite group of providers of open-enrolment programmes. The second group spans 52 places from Esade Business School to Audencia Business School. The third group of 9 schools is headed by Irish Management Institute.

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1. The provision of advanced information on content, and the participant selection process.

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

3. The extent to which teaching methods and materials were contemporary and appropriate, and included a suitable mix of academic rigour and practical relevance.

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

5. The extent to which other participants were of the appropriate managerial and academic standard, the international diversity of participants, and the quality of interaction among peers.

6. 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.

7. The level of follow-up offered after participants returned to their workplaces, and networking opportunities with fellow participants.

8. The extent to which personal and professional expectations were met, and the likelihood that participants would recommend the programme.

9. Rating of the quality of food and accommodation.

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

11. Amalgamation of the percentage of participants from outside the business school’s base country and region.

12. The extent to which programmes are run outside the school’s base country and region.

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

14. The diversity of faculty according to nationality and gender.

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