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	Rank 2014	Rank 2013	Rank 2012	3 year average	School name	Country	Programme name	Salary ($)^[1]	Salary growth^[2]	Careers^[3]	Work exp.^[4]	Aims achieved^[5]	Female faculty (%)	Female students (%)	Women on board (%)	Intnl. faculty^[6]	Intl. students^[7]	Intl. board^[8]	Intl. course^[9]	Languages^[10]	PhD faculty^[11]	PhD rank^[12]	Research^[13]
	1	4	3	30	Trium: HEC Paris / LSE / New York University: Stern	France / UK / US	Trium Global EMBA	307,00324,185	609	3923	10	27	27	18	18	9118	1912	8839	32	10	990	101	155
	2	1	1	10	Kellogg / HKUST Business School	China	Kellogg-HKUST EMBA	403,56013,246	3314	123	30	118	22	16	18	771	1510	821	300	10	994	32	170
	3	2	4	3	Tsinghua University / Insead	China / Singapore / UAE / France	Tsinghua-Insead EMBA	304,8431,821	650	41	42	1211	26	24	7	482	1016	732	100	10	962	41	337
	4	5	5	51	UCLA: Anderson / National University of Singapore	US / Singapore	UCLA-NUS EMBA	279,28435,607	7814	77	124	318	29	14	18	722	185	952	41	10	940	454	412
	5	3	2	30	EMBA-Global: Columbia/LBS	US / UK	EMBA-Global Americas and Europe	252,5394,701	7114	81	294	46	18	17	18	712	92	460	124	10	980	182	71
	6	7	8	70	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	Wharton MBA for Executives	223,8092,592	604	1740	781	250	21	28	13	362	3512	461	804	10	1000	10	10
	7	6	9	73	Washington University: Olin	China	Washington-Fudan EMBA	269,7756,484	5110	496	111	346	20	49	12	902	8422	980	400	10	970	821	113
	8	13	-	-	Nanyang Business School	Singapore	Nanyang EMBA	221,67215,012	710	6226	450	4553	33	21	26	661	145	580	121	20	993	6511	551
	9	11	6	92	Insead	France / Singapore / UAE	Insead Global EMBA	186,2118,830	585	5910	60	161	15	24	14	900	179	812	82	10	961	193	109
	10	10	7	90	Ceibs	China	Ceibs Global EMBA	283,50318,463	475	57	2019	436	11	31	17	702	467	500	203	10	980	931	7114
	11	9	10	102	University of Chicago: Booth	US / UK / China	EMBA	221,5847,455	474	5017	182	4413	16	20	13	770	2311	422	280	10	961	91	32
	12	12	14	130	Iese Business School	Spain	GEMBA	218,4348,238	512	5626	52	2220	18	14	23	583	814	862	66	11	1000	781	431
	13	-	-	-was 12	IE Business School	Spain	Global EMBA	198,40214,971	5060	7011	841	125	35	25	28	561	726	820	778	21	971	713	643
	13	24	23	201	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	Kellogg EMBA	241,0966,675	535	355	361	516	22	24	21	410	9545	2214	6421	10	996	114	80
	15	19	20	180	IMD	Switzerland	EMBA	246,39519,631	464	4620	22	4834	14	17	17	942	22	872	183	10	1000	931	701
	16	25	21	215	ESCP Europe	France / UK / Germany / Spain / Italy	European EMBA	155,0878,256	701	29	3413	80	36	28	35	671	211	529	20	20	950	7314	855
	17	32	-	-	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	EMBA	260,70846,459	819	7322	852	7813	29	26	14	30	964	414	7758	11	902	520	775
	18	17	26	201	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	NUS Asia-Pacific EMBA	244,9119,344	599	894	279	6619	34	23	0	563	132	334	151	10	910	703	650
	19	8	16	144	Duke University: Fuqua	US	Duke MBA - Global Executive	236,1186,859	2919	8623	72	3013	16	16	14	461	446	412	12	10	1000	174	52
	19	21	24	215	Warwick Business School	UK	Warwick EMBA	148,6805,219	946	31	835	2417	35	17	22	775	266	2210	582	10	1001	234	481
	21	23	38	273	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	Oxford EMBA	205,94216,940	552	135	141	137	17	21	46	592	68	7110	350	10	980	3510	5819
	22	15	19	19	Georgetown University / Esade Business School	US / Spain	Global EMBA	217,87017,188	547	6116	1510	3821	30	14	22	661	4011	835	41	10	961	740	5212
	22	18	18	191	Kellogg / WHU Beisheim	Germany	Kellogg-WHU EMBA	176,9982,980	571	4741	2511	72	21	24	16	763	244	671	280	10	995	154	160
	24	13	17	183	CUHK Business School	China	EMBA	271,1387,288	506	888	3816	933	21	36	50	531	5318	1000	360	10	970	778	301
	25	20	15	205	London Business School	UK / UAE	EMBA	172,0284,910	476	213	332	4121	24	17	31	861	12	775	244	10	1001	271	90
	25	30	32	290	Columbia Business School	US	EMBA	197,0291,666	584	2321	876	3243	14	25	13	612	392	350	804	10	970	222	62
	27	43	48	3912	Kedge Business School	France / China	Kedge-SJTU Global MBA	171,05211,680	11218	1172	9515	715	23	45	33	402	710	012	337	10	913	6015	921
	28	22	12	212	Korea University Business School	South Korea	EMBA	229,06012,219	748	3221	896	2625	8	16	18	91	917	187	310	20	1000	4112	733
	29	28	21	263	Arizona State University: Carey	China	Carey / SNAI EMBA	194,79612,999	771	669	4032	7322	25	35	8	961	970	100100	861	10	903	5019	2711
	30	29	40	33	ESMT Berlin	Germany	ESMT EMBA	150,4987,453	556	10	1915	62	27	33	25	820	277	123	242	10	1000	931	5914
	31	39	46	393	Rice University: Jones	US	Rice MBA for Executives	218,34020,668	604	6442	3531	1430	27	14	19	293	292	00	778	10	930	920	233
	32	38	35	35	Fudan University School of Management	China	Fudan EMBA	228,88426,273	755	945	621	5321	31	25	4	72	862	670	861	10	952	246	7514
	33	26	27	298	Kellogg / York University: Schulich	Canada	Kellogg-Schulich EMBA	157,7794,647	3612	5819	172	3713	24	32	19	833	1614	690	162	10	994	135	143
	34	34	30	335	New York University: Stern	US	NYU Stern EMBA	193,32310,055	365	2422	6813	829	19	28	15	531	3211	172	492	10	1000	148	20
	35	40	34	361	University of Michigan: Ross	US	EMBA	215,183666	422	1829	541	367	28	21	23	342	791	82	861	10	872	167	133
	36	-	-	-	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	Cambridge EMBA	192,834	54	27	21	59	12	23	17	69	12	33	48	1	96	57	44
	36	31	35	340	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	EMBA	189,3562,040	587	1621	734	295	28	25	16	321	6310	161	406	10	1000	931	264
	38	27	24	304	OneMBA	Netherlands / US / Brazil / Mexico	OneMBA: RSM/UNC/FGV São Paulo/Egade	167,9877,094	541	5311	322	2715	25	19	21	3053	4224	2831	110	10	970	120	469
	38	33	31	345	Imperial College Business School	UK	EMBA	139,343154	5910	103	7710	3523	30	34	38	904	2519	500	552	10	1003	4412	287
	40	35	32	364	City University: Cass	UK / UAE	EMBA	148,9703,915	603	296	650	4220	30	26	47	803	111	537	4512	10	961	545	4210
	41	42	39	412	UCLA: Anderson	US	EMBA	182,5548,123	424	256	442	180	21	28	19	480	506	121	492	10	1000	341	203
	42	37	35	385	Cornell University: Johnson	US	Cornell EMBA	213,5132,399	425	2243	619	7017	21	21	17	413	4113	352	757	10	913	6822	211
	43	61	-	-	Renmin University of China School of Business	China	EMBA	200,39418,837	5810	983	5310	973	31	25	13	50	941	231	572	20	883	20	885
	44	-	51	-	University of Maryland: Smith	US	Smith EMBA	172,964	38	34	43	28	29	29	17	36	51	9	86	1	98	8	19
	45	36	29	376	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	Rotman EMBA	138,6728,780	2519	437	374	5021	24	32	41	723	3018	530	2758	10	980	62	43
	45	47	46	46	Kozminski University	Poland	EMBA	151,9107,807	8411	3115	927	5616	34	30	18	223	360	640	6449	20	880	613	990
	47	40	45	441	Cornell University: Johnson/Queen's University: Smith	US / Canada	Cornell-Queen's EMBA	159,9407,932	537	2818	6411	551	28	25	19	4725	203	444	611	10	935	557	3110
	48	43	43	454	Western University: Ivey	Canada / China	Ivey EMBA	183,9824,207	460	751	411	8621	26	29	15	643	4912	334	640	10	991	7924	342
	49	51	54	51	University of Hong Kong	China	HKU-Fudan IMBA	123,840	99	76	93	87	29	45	9	37	93	27	86	2	97	47	56
	50	45	41	455	Essec / Mannheim	France / Germany	Essec & Mannheim EMBA	131,0374,246	456	3716	288	209	29	23	15	714	336	621	140	10	991	381	662
	51	64	56	579	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	EMBA HSG	147,2408,840	474	152	1611	58	11	12	50	770	8555	500	331	20	10024	855	6710
	52	63	77	64	Centrum Católica	Peru / Colombia	Global MBA	195,3252,496	457	846	315	7718	18	28	31	581	4337	690	91	20	802	933	982
	53	-	53	-	Henley Business School	UK	Henley EMBA	135,082	60	38	63	10	41	36	36	47	28	36	86	1	84	33	91
	53	57	62	574	University of Pittsburgh: Katz	US / Brazil / Czech Republic	EMBA Worldwide	171,34014,001	374	3616	4613	3344	28	26	10	6211	9246	2219	203	10	922	521	3711
	55	54	-	-	BI Norwegian Business School/ Fudan University School of Management	China	BI-Fudan MBA	151,5765,745	856	486	860	991	27	59	12	224	7816	629	390	10	792	423	796
	56	70	70	651	Yonsei University School of Business	South Korea	Corporate MBA	166,82517,050	6112	934	991	729	12	32	50	111	980	500	725	20	1000	563	871
	57	49	49	526	Emory University: Goizueta	US	Weekend EMBA	177,0999,163	458	406	679	6127	22	20	21	180	7310	31	773	10	922	6413	295
	58	75	63	652	Temple University: Fox	US	Fox EMBA	156,42612,585	489	8311	263	902	28	32	22	351	4524	510	232	10	875	3131	535
	59	55	50	55	Antwerp Management School	Belgium / Russia	EMBA	147,7776,908	515	1910	3913	1960	31	20	20	287	5719	900	242	20	856	931	931
	60	65	58	612	Texas A & M University: Mays	US	Texas A&M EMBA	179,0363,008	425	633	3015	154	29	18	24	212	549	00	861	10	801	692	364
	61	48	41	507	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	EMBA	118,82810,689	447	4520	669	6833	23	21	30	430	511	301	400	20	1000	4313	241
	62	46	51	538	WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)/University of Minnesota: Carlson	Austria	Global EMBA	147,2525,546	3014	7433	91	404	35	16	29	451	3728	911	161	10	903	403	626
	63	77	79	732	SMU: Cox	US	SMU Cox EMBA	177,00110,808	416	267	573	4929	22	23	11	294	684	30	7311	10	921	931	5412
	64	58	-	-	University of Strathclyde Business School	UK / Switzerland / Greece / UAE / Bahrain / Oman	Strathclyde EMBA	121,4221,793	703	5528	7515	8922	36	28	35	9829	2221	4712	861	10	802	583	845
	65	72	63	67	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US	Illinois EMBA	144,111781	423	5121	5628	4622	24	27	21	160	605	20	841	10	947	375	256
	65	72	76	7110	University of Miami School of Business Administration	US	Miami EMBA	168,6401,684	4412	4111	981	912	26	30	12	400	3423	00	861	10	961	7610	472
	67	75	70	715	University of Washington: Foster	US	EMBA	161,122395	367	5234	7426	858	30	31	21	201	767	83	8521	10	910	362	221
	68	79	86	784	Tongji University/ENPC	China	Shanghai International MBA	127,96210,230	8310	954	7210	961	37	42	17	70	8013	580	861	10	873	282	946
	69	81	66	72	Boston University: Questrom	US	Boston EMBA	208,01119,833	283	813	231	977	31	24	10	353	7412	632	582	10	811	894	388
	70	-	-	-	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	Part-Time MBA	100,506	72	90	94	67	43	50	53	44	55	53	20	1	80	32	90
	70	59	66	651	SDA Bocconi	Italy	EMBA	133,7969,451	521	8512	515	9837	37	19	33	270	828	672	360	20	890	261	5010
	70	72	70	710	Rutgers Business School	US	Rutgers EMBA	169,01013,653	495	331	5817	8817	18	30	17	301	662	00	804	10	801	301	684
	73	59	75	699	Cranfield School of Management	UK	Cranfield EMBA	125,7189,988	4211	7122	550	6526	25	43	19	526	322	274	492	20	921	2915	892
	74	56	54	619	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	US	Texas EMBA	149,8532,086	414	444	7019	9259	26	17	11	291	6411	31	645	10	852	206	121
	75	51	63	634	Georgia State University: Robinson	US	EMBA	165,0956,543	4213	670	507	8126	33	24	16	301	5814	216	492	10	802	663	3912
	76	66	73	723	Fordham University: Gabelli	US	Fordham EMBA	161,8982,870	521	781	8817	9515	35	34	24	2814	319	150	4927	10	833	931	722
	77	92	100	90	University of Zurich	Switzerland	Zurich EMBA	125,0113,745	241	6537	134	2127	9	24	17	8515	5213	508	554	20	1000	214	458
	78	-	78	-	Koç University Graduate School of Business	Turkey	EMBA	131,406	51	77	69	83	45	38	18	42	89	82	86	1	94	87	82
	79	97	80	85	University of Minnesota: Carlson	US	Carlson EMBA	147,69511,408	321	6040	4219	6915	29	31	29	240	6922	81	734	10	820	6210	186
	80	70	60	704	University of Pretoria, Gibs	South Africa	Modular & Part-Time MBA	185,9821,097	561	6810	7913	7614	29	40	75	012	10019	011	542	10	7113	901	953
	81	69	-	-	HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management	Germany	Part-Time MBA	109,9633,881	634	64	1000	5247	18	20	10	232	384	154	6457	20	1000	491	1007
	82	86	90	860	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	EMBA	115,9461,248	560	2015	844	5812	29	13	17	247	484	1000	6313	10	901	831	833
	83	68	-	-	National Sun Yat-sen University	Taiwan	EMBA	155,0711,983	532	1004	904	237	25	28	21	70	991	043	7135	21	971	5119	960
	83	99	-	-	University of Houston: Bauer	US	EMBA	141,2983,342	485	7216	804	6011	28	24	18	271	590	51	756	10	850	720	575
	83	85	83	8410	Aalto University	Finland / S. Korea / Singapore / Poland	Aalto EMBA	130,9633,948	465	9228	475	7515	35	27	43	172	707	860	400	10	942	393	813
	86	96	80	872	University of Rochester: Simon	US / Switzerland	EMBA	127,622792	433	6910	481	4717	18	27	11	262	4719	131	193	10	815	4823	351
	87	81	99	895	University of Alberta/University of Calgary: Haskayne	Canada	Alberta-Haskayne EMBA	130,6274,388	451	876	598	6417	26	26	20	513	6715	86	804	10	873	803	407
	88	-	80	-	Tulane University: Freeman	US	EMBA	151,534	34	54	71	80	36	29	11	34	72	27	64	1	87	86	63
	88	98	96	940	Baylor University: Hankamer	US	Baylor EMBA	132,7292,821	586	4226	813	624	33	37	14	41	8713	61	5814	10	790	880	804
	90	89	-	-	Michigan State University: Broad	US	EMBA	130,7302,597	447	3015	910	843	34	25	29	245	8319	08	861	10	882	679	321
	91	84	60	78	EMLyon Business School	France	EMBA	102,5982,076	294	1411	244	1721	33	16	0	501	6118	836	406	20	955	813	780
	91	79	92	875	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	CBS EMBA	113,7128,004	347	8020	5220	5415	33	23	27	394	562	90	3810	10	922	78	6010
	93	87	96	92	HEC Lausanne	Switzerland	EMBA	109,492870	183	7923	101	311	27	24	27	814	419	5510	640	10	1000	4611	865
	94	81	88	8813	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	EMBA	109,6973,044	467	969	4913	637	30	25	20	464	755	4113	861	10	1000	633	7411
	95	99	-	-	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden	SSE MBA	122,9173,866	425	828	2216	571	23	16	7	310	7717	00	3216	10	963	5315	765
	95	-	-	-	University of Utah: Eccles	US	EMBA	138,280	41	93	60	74	31	32	13	30	81	6	47	1	82	59	49
	97	93	86	92	Tias Business School	Netherlands	EMBA	105,3805,594	443	5719	8214	3915	25	18	17	424	6514	00	8617	10	906	254	616
	98	-	-	-	Sabanci University School of Management	Turkey	Sabanci EMBA	117,986	39	91	97	94	43	29	21	27	88	100	46	1	100	91	69
	99	89	92	935	Queen's University: Smith	Canada	Queen's EMBA	123,48810,385	334	9715	7625	7952	33	27	19	5210	6213	506	611	10	9511	7510	5110
	100	-	-	-	Coppead	Brazil	EMBA	134,799	49	99	96	100	44	28	30	19	90	40	86	1	100	84	97
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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 210 points separate Trium at the top, from the school ranked number 100. The first 17 business schools, from Trium to Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai, form the first tier of schools. The second tier is headed by the National University of Singapore Business School, about 90 points above HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management at the bottom of this group. Vlerick Business School heads the third tier.

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1. The average alumni salary three years after graduation. (The 2013 EMBA ranking is based on data for alumni graduating in 2010). This figure includes alumni salary data for the current year and the one or two preceding years, where available.

2. The percentage increase in average alumni salary from before the EMBA to today as a percentage of the pre-EMBA salary. This figure includes data for the current year and the one or two preceding years, where available.

3. This is calculated according to changes in the level of seniority and the size of the company alumni are working in now versus before their EMBA. Data for the current year and the one or two preceding years are included where available.

4. This measures the previous experience of EMBA participants by examining seniority of positions held, number of years in each position, size of company, and any international work experience prior to starting the EMBA.

5. The extent to which alumni fulfilled their most important goals or reasons for doing an EMBA.

6. The percentage of faculty whose citizenship differs from their country of employment

7. This combines two pieces of data. The first is the percentage of participants who are resident in the country of the business school but whose citizenship is different to that country. The second is the percentage of participants who are resident outside the country in which the business school is situated.

8. The percentage of the board whose citizenship differs from the country in which the business school is based

9. International course experience: The percentage of classroom teaching hours that are carried out outside the country in which the business school is situated. The data is presented as a rank and the top position is one.

10. Number of languages students are required to speak on graduation.

11. The percentage of faculty with a doctoral degree

12. This is calculated according to the number of doctoral graduates from each business school during the past three years. Additional points are given if these doctoral graduates took up faculty positions at one of the top 50 full-time MBA schools of 2013.

13. This is calculated according to the number of faculty publications in 45 international academic and practitioner journals. Points are accrued by the business school at which the author is currently employed. The total is weighted for faculty size.

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