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Executive MBA Ranking 2019

	2019	2018	2017	Three-year average rank	School name	Country	Programme name	Salary ($)^[1]	Salary growth (%)^[2]	Careers^[3]	Work exp.^[4]	Aims achieved	Female faculty (%)	Female students (%)	Women on board (%)	Intl. faculty^[5]	Intl students (%)	Intl. board^[6]	Intl. course^[7]	Languages^[8]	PhD faculty^[9]	Research^[10]	CSR rank
	1	6	-	-	HEC Paris	France / Qatar / China	HEC Paris International EMBA	406,14984,106	8921	12	534	806	182	306	4229	691	812	8316	100	10	1000	217	930
	2	1	1	10	Kellogg/HKUST Business School	China	Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA	513,0145,522	633	6330	128	792	272	226	292	761	708	830	371	10	991	187	3623
	3	2	5	30	Trium: HEC Paris/LSE/NYU: Stern	France / UK / US / China	Trium Global EMBA	451,766108,796	633	336	10	811	281	259	3011	591	809	4938	10	10	921	222	543
	4	4	2	3	EMBA-Global Asia: Columbia/HKU/LBS	US / China / UK	EMBA-Global Asia	338,72530,885	9822	365	4318	851	231	2113	241	560	777	441	23	10	970	158	779
	5	5	14	83	Ceibs	China / Switzerland / Ghana	Ceibs Global EMBA	446,49581,917	732	710	1819	782	272	374	3613	775	598	573	182	10	1000	4818	8010
	6	14	4	81	EMBA-Global: Columbia/LBS	US / UK	EMBA-Global Americas & Europe	317,32063,866	8614	2535	359	830	221	297	240	671	821	462	80	10	971	64	7012
	7	6	7	71	Washington University: Olin	US / China	Washington University — Fudan EMBA	371,8243,326	674	5416	2413	731	260	498	690	891	155	880	398	10	974	77	5146
	8	14	18	134	London Business School	UK / UAE	EMBA	292,02348,773	7810	1212	275	791	273	244	455	842	874	764	292	10	990	107	356
	9	3	3	52	Tsinghua University/Insead	China/ Singapore/ France/ Abu Dhabi	Tsinghua-Insead Dual Degree EMBA	372,8087,072	573	3514	34	812	270	3015	131	471	682	696	120	20	970	351	135
	10	17	9	120	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	University of Oxford EMBA	290,59436,434	8926	415	84	851	220	252	400	661	870	7710	342	10	1000	3712	328
	11	8	6	81	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	SJTU Antai EMBA	410,56566,372	1171	5911	5619	781	341	331	130	30	12	284	772	10	940	804	649
	12	9	12	110	Iese Business School	Spain / US	Global EMBA	281,54111,260	692	935	100	752	290	394	283	852	924	910	42	10	1000	404	21
	12	25	39	256	Arizona State University: Carey	China	Carey / SNAI EMBA	377,608118,422	9610	1934	7512	742	272	4410	141	951	00	298	871	10	861	285	2155
	14	11	10	121	ESCP Europe	FR / GB / DE / ES / IT / LB	EMBA	249,71010,802	7813	43	257	841	380	3010	395	802	753	4511	52	20	1001	741	120
	15	10	11	12	MIT: Sloan	US	MIT EMBA	352,7299,049	612	5223	74	820	243	313	221	423	320	554	871	10	1001	43	505
	16	12	13	142	IE Business School	Spain	Global EMBA	281,91410,426	573	832	20	744	411	297	503	694	900	966	74	20	1002	549	171
	17	-	-	-	Yale School of Management	US	Yale MBA for Executives	285,000	123	99	98	74	26	35	22	43	30	42	85	1	100	25	3
	18	25	15	191	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	The Cambridge EMBA	250,06321,873	8816	211	303	822	201	3012	5015	674	713	334	702	10	971	423	5223
	19	13	8	135	Insead	France	Global EMBA (GEMBA)	285,5086,406	396	5121	62	781	191	305	385	933	890	883	170	21	971	134	61
	20	21	29	233	IMD Business School	Switzerland	IMD EMBA	278,3364,682	577	4312	41	772	181	201	210	980	872	830	130	21	1000	609	86
	21	24	15	202	University of Chicago: Booth	US / UK / China	EMBA	286,65319,326	546	2838	382	780	171	218	151	764	741	1818	411	10	961	110	7227
	22	16	22	205	UCLA: Anderson/National University of Singapore	US / Singapore	UCLA - NUS EMBA	302,7982,358	514	4217	1610	773	272	184	181	521	6210	123	60	10	940	1413	4012
	23	23	18	212	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	The NUS EMBA	329,11638,274	522	975	141	780	285	263	294	612	806	299	252	10	901	2015	267
	24	18	25	220	Warwick Business School	UK	EMBA	185,45915,223	852	53	595	791	406	259	337	792	493	222	672	10	1000	297	277
	24	29	32	285	CUHK Business School	China	EMBA	296,72329,233	590	2014	332	770	273	326	500	533	261	1000	529	10	990	3414	274
	26	31	28	282	City, University of London: Cass	UK / UAE	EMBA	201,09912,376	717	1814	5117	801	295	3911	500	832	764	570	530	10	932	455	3113
	27	38	20	281	Korea University Business School	South Korea	EMBA	344,72983,649	9811	4937	726	811	61	160	355	90	00	5424	511	20	1000	851	951
	27	29	38	314	BI Norwegian Business School / Fudan University School of Management	China	BI-Fudan MBA	237,88813,882	1075	2414	836	781	321	613	183	681	51	5621	361	10	861	735	793
	29	25	21	253	Duke University: Fuqua	US	The Duke MBA — Global Executive	208,06513,781	544	7654	7118	801	233	331	212	431	382	561	34	10	972	31	2410
	29	47	67	488	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	EMBA	164,93219,851	5720	955	392	813	262	402	566	780	3011	312	322	10	990	80	3015
	31	37	42	371	Imperial College Business School	UK	EMBA	167,0424,986	7812	347	743	793	262	251	463	950	6611	776	3722	21	1000	365	1440
	32	34	26	313	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	Kellogg EMBA	263,24014,007	522	538	460	770	261	315	313	436	373	231	570	10	992	117	2115
	33	32	27	315	Kellogg/York University: Schulich	Canada	Kellogg-Schulich EMBA	174,9183,283	630	4732	364	772	260	301	251	821	733	741	160	10	991	192	334
	34	28	23	282	Kellogg/WHU Beisheim	Germany	Kellogg-WHU EMBA	204,08713,714	526	169	209	811	251	1311	283	771	702	821	260	10	991	237	4522
	34	51	43	43	Yonsei University School of Business	South Korea	EMBA	336,93095,279	9117	6450	8116	735	114	216	4624	111	00	7710	620	20	1000	820	253
	36	40	40	393	Columbia Business School	US	EMBA	239,09112,554	7214	8122	1001	781	181	353	171	551	357	350	802	10	951	24	6013
	37	18	30	286	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore	Singapore	Nanyang EMBA	270,0701,084	438	237	421	742	350	248	377	680	880	3723	4325	20	990	464	4120
	38	39	31	361	ESMT Berlin	Germany	ESMT's EMBA	212,46627,455	557	148	3410	770	193	245	250	717	650	5012	220	10	1000	449	71
	39	36	37	375	Kedge Business School	France/China	EMBA	201,7204,240	875	386	867	731	310	4821	500	520	121	460	2316	10	982	773	341
	40	42	-	-	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	EMBA	189,850298	530	65	5011	811	294	4918	152	420	168	232	461	10	1000	244	4212
	41	35	43	400	The University of Hong Kong	China	HKU-Fudan MBA (International)	221,5019,174	1062	446	991	720	250	611	2513	341	10	2513	871	20	980	510	744
	42	49	48	463	UCLA: Anderson	US	EMBA	215,22312,071	5211	3111	826	802	241	304	172	371	272	103	549	10	1000	96	295
	43	33	36	37	University of Michigan: Ross	US	EMBA	290,03217,350	5012	3213	4010	742	252	271	115	351	195	61	871	10	932	174	971
	44	55	45	481	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	EMBA HSG	175,6761,092	556	1339	4117	823	171	263	500	805	6113	500	549	20	1000	681	41
	45	47	47	460	Essec Business School/Mannheim Business School	France / Germany	Essec & Mannehim EMBA	169,0387,689	490	3919	210	760	311	3810	5017	433	7213	506	110	10	990	611	574
	46	52	49	491	Cornell University: Johnson	US	Cornell EMBA Metro NY	212,36812,734	512	2222	5824	803	251	272	195	440	238	438	830	10	940	1611	936
	47	-	-	-	UCT Graduate School of Business	South Africa	MBA specialising in Executive Management	278,976	45	10	49	72	32	33	40	55	21	27	87	1	81	92	5
	48	45	58	501	WU Vienna: Executive Academy/University of Minnesota: Carlson	Austria / US	Global EMBA	179,06612,225	3314	7912	910	791	360	2020	361	542	807	9167	130	10	921	479	496
	49	62	60	573	Western University: Ivey	Canada	Ivey EMBA	176,6589,866	6520	1539	482	740	203	326	190	581	202	260	601	10	990	384	910
	50	57	-	-	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	The CBS EMBA	194,3389,001	507	8413	2213	731	332	304	279	445	415	90	402	10	961	3313	446
	51	44	35	437	OneMBA: FGV/XMU/EGADE/RSM/MBS	BR / CN / MX / NL / US	OneMBA: FGV / XMU / Egade / RSM / MBS	194,7369,573	573	8958	321	731	270	429	165	343	251	2916	190	10	931	628	686
	52	-	-	-	Indian School of Business	India	PGP In Management For Senior Executives (PGPMAX)	353,666	43	74	28	65	15	12	5	15	9	62	27	1	98	71	98
	53	56	50	532	Cornell University: Johnson/Queen's University: Smith	US / Canada	EMBA Americas	190,9312,173	521	4516	5213	751	261	247	270	440	3811	412	351	10	910	397	925
	54	59	51	550	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	The Netherlands	EMBA	141,88811,242	564	3017	876	780	251	2511	238	572	570	2310	630	10	1000	304	558
	55	63	83	6711	EMLyon Business School	France	EMBA	133,806126	363	83	193	783	341	3610	384	553	1810	857	440	20	981	673	191
	56	52	62	570	University of Pittsburgh: Katz	US / Brazil	Katz EMBA	180,0365,654	4410	5537	447	763	332	3312	195	526	279	116	272	10	921	434	176
	56	72	57	624	University of Washington: Foster	US	EMBA	189,79013,307	439	718	891	773	353	3310	214	301	177	52	843	10	921	52	820
	58	66	60	61	Melbourne Business School	Australia	EMBA (EMBA)	198,37121,629	554	6119	5715	730	300	305	195	721	1622	257	794	10	961	594	820
	59	52	46	52	Mannheim Business School/Tongji University	Germany / China	Mannheim & Tongji EMBA	189,5927,862	411	7044	554	795	363	372	3912	121	289	225	80	10	950	781	871
	60	61	76	661	Koç University Graduate School of Business	Turkey	EMBA	225,4546,985	604	7711	931	741	530	252	161	240	146	634	851	10	940	870	4610
	61	74	68	683	Kozminski University	Poland	EMBA	214,16029,547	638	872	652	792	380	371	150	170	173	620	709	11	882	991	585
	62	49	62	584	Incae Business School	Costa Rica	EMBA	156,21114,220	4714	7223	9414	752	242	332	202	7814	7515	780	150	20	973	942	4312
	62	60	54	591	Grenoble Ecole de Management	Georgia / Russia	Executive Part-Time MBA	145,0609,946	881	951	951	752	430	278	530	471	51	730	3011	10	892	721	477
	62	85	80	769	Antwerp Management School	Belgium/ Russia	International EMBA	184,40823,392	5016	9039	777	703	364	4222	292	361	253	712	210	20	980	972	106
	65	84	66	723	SDA Bocconi School of Management	Italy	EMBA	195,71029,492	464	5737	627	672	390	254	4419	384	63	7811	730	20	991	263	6118
	66	68	65	662	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden	SSE MBA Executive Format	129,918378	463	6227	170	772	261	4013	401	394	471	302	241	10	990	662	2326
	66	68	74	698	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	Smurfit EMBA	150,44712,228	629	4017	768	772	332	335	356	4010	262	595	871	10	991	6910	694
	68	58	52	597	Henley Business School	UK	Henley EMBA	152,174984	551	367	613	753	490	348	360	573	2112	360	871	10	914	913	3714
	69	80	86	78	Edhec Business School	France	Edhec EMBA	130,08812,325	451	5830	2916	740	346	326	432	552	332	871	451	20	953	831	155
	70	73	-	-	Hult International Business School	US / UK / UAE	EMBA	176,8475,939	5215	6013	4722	712	402	381	274	8732	925	645	871	10	631	1000	185
	70	78	70	738	HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne	Switzerland	EMBA	138,8255,232	328	784	132	784	261	299	290	831	711	430	784	10	1000	638	566
	72	75	75	742	Emory University: Goizueta	US	Goizueta Business School, EMBA	200,0112,581	406	1723	4511	771	331	351	170	230	319	00	764	10	880	529	9813
	73	75	84	774	Vanderbilt University: Owen	US	The Vanderbilt EMBA	161,2632,479	657	2719	8414	751	260	386	101	172	131	60	584	10	964	564	7628
	74	-	58	-	University of Zurich	Switzerland	EMBA University of Zurich	156,252	41	75	31	79	13	21	50	90	31	50	49	2	100	49	86
	74	80	64	736	University of Minnesota: Carlson	US	Carlson EMBA	181,3835,725	458	7334	5437	781	300	338	300	221	81	162	800	10	823	127	942
	76	71	81	76	Neoma Business School	France	Global EMBA	134,4482,846	429	5013	237	731	423	2011	500	695	2924	7512	425	20	991	901	1122
	77	96	90	881	Texas A & M University: Mays	US	Texas A&M University-EMBA	221,98317,696	397	2169	1117	741	322	151	163	192	1710	00	871	10	754	274	386
	78	88	73	805	SMU: Cox	US	SMU Cox EMBA	180,598208	567	686	669	771	293	210	111	342	2319	62	743	10	921	657	663
	79	82	81	811	Michigan State University: Broad	US	Broad EMBA	150,6584,514	552	4640	900	780	320	258	320	260	82	00	871	10	880	411	2011
	80	-	76	-	Queen's University: Smith	Canada	EMBA, National Program	157,626	47	37	69	73	26	44	30	44	22	40	67	1	88	64	84
	80	93	92	881	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	EMBA	150,8943,379	432	665	6011	770	180	3310	201	315	571	302	871	10	1002	587	7111
	82	67	87	793	Gordon Institute of Business Science at UP	South Africa	Modular / PT EMBA	225,77211,315	3821	9418	6331	713	508	5113	3315	194	185	175	630	10	755	963	169
	83	-	-	-	Georgia State University: Robinson	US	EMBA	165,450	43	67	53	74	31	33	28	32	12	16	69	1	85	32	88
	84	89	91	886	Rutgers Business School	US	Rutgers EMBA	188,6331,821	527	2639	918	791	220	314	152	180	119	1313	800	10	771	571	4818
	85	65	55	6814	University of Strathclyde Business School	UAE/ Switzerland/ Greece/ Singapore/ Malaysia/ Bahrain/ Oman	Strathclyde EMBA	162,1476,006	6214	883	961	665	341	321	290	961	357	430	871	10	812	930	3913
	86	98	88	91	NHH Norwegian School of Economics	Norway	EMBA	142,4708,934	502	5627	675	760	251	344	369	396	85	189	5013	20	961	812	8539
	87	87	71	822	Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller	US	EMBA	179,0023,576	415	4839	7312	733	262	335	278	282	146	102	630	10	761	3112	673
	88	86	69	811	National Sun Yat-sen University	Taiwan	EMBA	184,9102,434	563	9619	6423	713	282	286	389	175	85	444	6619	10	1000	984	7811
	89	-	99	-	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	BI EMBA	149,008	42	91	15	74	31	27	63	28	50	0	20	1	80	75	90
	90	-	-	-	Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Business School	Ireland	Trinity EMBA	126,044	32	29	97	79	45	32	35	52	30	35	72	1	86	79	75
	91	82	78	847	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	EMBA	131,2894,166	3922	1147	851	771	290	216	60	373	252	390	3210	20	972	861	653
	92	93	78	8811	Aalto University	Finland	Aalto EMBA	136,8269,520	303	8210	267	712	375	429	4314	303	91	4343	8745	10	952	507	6332
	93	-	-	-	Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University	China	EMBA programme of Lingnan College	263,234	57	100	92	62	25	26	22	2	3	21	61	2	98	84	81
	94	-	95	-	Sabanci Business School	Turkey	Sabancı EMBA	182,246	42	98	79	67	36	27	64	36	7	18	46	1	100	88	62
	95	100	96	974	Toulouse Business School (TBS)	France	EMBA	103,21212,281	3511	8011	701	774	470	225	405	535	2717	279	303	10	930	893	734
	96	-	-	-	Lancaster University Management School	UK	EMBA	141,768	45	69	88	68	33	30	35	57	14	18	87	1	96	70	96
	97	90	98	95	Rennes School of Business	France	EMBA	91,09613,304	3210	8548	7826	726	333	487	455	893	6111	5517	560	10	884	954	8973
	98	97	97	976	University of Utah: Eccles	US	EMBA	157,7764,714	433	9221	686	760	331	292	312	282	72	71	591	10	785	531	5912
	99	-	89	-	Baylor University: Hankamer	US	Baylor University EMBA	149,437	48	86	80	72	38	41	17	9	16	0	74	1	78	76	53
	100	-	93	-	University of Rochester: Simon	US / Switzerland	Simon EMBA	147,028	40	65	37	76	18	26	7	37	22	20	46	1	72	55	98
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Table notesAlthough the headline ranking figures show annual changes in the data, the pattern of clustering among the schools is equally significant. Some 220 points separate the top programme, HEC Paris, from the school ranked 100th. The top participants from HEC Paris to EMBA-Global Asia: Columbia/LBS form the top group. The second group spans from Washington University Olin at 7 down to the programme by University of St Gallen at 44th. The third group is headed by Essec Business School/Mannheim Business School down to Texas A& M University: Mays at 77. Finally, the bottom 23 schools headed by SMU: Cox make up the fourth group. * Programme not fully available in English ‡ No data

Footnotes

1. The average alumni salary three years after graduation. (The 2019 EMBA ranking is based on data for alumni graduating in 2016.) 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 percentage of faculty whose citizenship differs from their country of employment

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

7. 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.

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

9. The percentage of faculty with a doctoral degree

10. This is calculated according to the number of faculty publications in 50 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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