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	Rank '09	Rank '08^[5]	Rank '07^[5]	3 yr. rank^[5]	School name	Country	Prog. name	Salary today (US$)^[6]	Weighted sal. ($)^[7]	Value^[8]	Careers^[9]	Aims achieved^[10]	Placements^[11]	Employment^[12]	Wom. faculty^[13]	Wom. students^[14]	Wom. board^[15]	Intl. faculty^[16]	Intl. students^[17]	Intl. board^[18]	Intl. mobility^[19]	Intl. course^[20]	Languages^[21]	PhD Faculty^[22]	Fees^[23]	Prog. length^[24]	Enrolments^[25]	Degree^[26]	Internships^[27]
	1	3	2	2	Cems	See footnote^[1]	Masters in International Management	61,106	61,003	2^[3]	29	81	28	95 (46)	34	49	29	98	94	97	1	4	2	79	0	12	720	-	100
	2	1	1	1	HEC Paris	France	Master of Science in Management	72,443	72,105	20	11	80	7	89 (56)	28	43	11	57	28	30	7	5	2	99	€20,900	18	555	-	100
	3	2	4	3	ESCP Europe	France, U.K., Germany, Spain, Italy	Master in Management^[2]	66,256	65,542	22	8	81	6	90 (65)	30	46	23	58	64	41	4	2	2	91	€16,800	20	716	-	100
	4	4	2	3	London School of Economics and Political Science	U.K.	MSc in Management	71,262	71,262	8	31	83	32	93 (70)	31	57	36	66	98	7	2	31	0	96	£18,048	12	60	-	16
	5	6	5	5	Essec Business School	France	MSc Strategy and Management of International Business	62,652	62,395	23	6	84	1	95 (81)	27	36	5	41	41	55	19	16	2	91	€15,500	14	111	-	100
	6	7	6	6	EM Lyon Business School	France	MSc in Management	54,285	54,300	35	10	78	23	98 (83)	27	59	12	42	40	71	9	1	2	95	€15,800	24	545	-	100
	7	5	7	6	Grenoble Graduate School of Business	France	Master in International Business	57,449	57,449	9	5	81	45	94 (69)	37	45	47	39	89	40	5	15	1	74	€12,600	12	298	-	93
	8	10	15	11	Mannheim Business School	Germany	MSc in Business Administration	72,702	72,702	1	26	79	11	93 (84)	20	41	0	13	19	0	31	17	1	81	€2,000	48	121	-	97
	9	16	11	12	Esade Business School	Spain	Master in International Management	55,933	55,302	6	25	77	3	89 (94)	28	52	8	17	72	85	21	12	2	81	€21,790	10	190	Yes^[4]	97
	10	8	10	9	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	MSc in International Management	56,041	55,485	14	23	73	17	100 (69)	15	54	30	34	59	33	38	3	2	100	€2,348	18	59	Yes^[4]	100
	11	9	12	11	Edhec Business School	France	Master in Management^[2]	55,088	55,409	38	18	75	21	86 (75)	29	50	20	33	13	80	6	9	2	81	€17,800	24	730	-	100
	12	12	9	11	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden	MSc in Business and Economics	66,042	62,191	4	42	84	8	98 (67)	13	47	33	17	2	0	15	29	1	99	0	24	301	-	0
	13	11	8	11	Audencia Nantes	France	Master in Management^[2]	50,684	50,100	41	13	76	12	86 (73)	28	55	0	40	14	25	12	14	3	78	€16,500	24	509	-	100
	14	13	18	15	Solvay Business School	Belgium	Master in Business Engineering	51,576	51,903	17	39	76	2	91 (96)	18	31	4	37	9	14	14	20	2	98	€1,518	24	185	Yes^[4]	95
	15	15	17	16	City University: Cass	U.K.	MSc in Management	54,289	54,289	30	14	79	40	84 (46)	24	55	38	61	87	54	16	33	0	91	£17,000	12	156	-	0
	16	18	34	23	WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)	Austria	International Business Administration	52,852	52,728	13	27	75	50	94 (72)	36	48	35	15	26	76	30	6	2	91	0	48	46	Yes^[4]	95
	17	14	-	-	ESC Lille	France	International Master in Management^[2]	47,106	47,106	46	9	78	38	84 (90)	48	61	12	34	24	8	3	7	2	59	€16,644	24	84	-	100
	18	17	24	20	ESC Toulouse	France	Masters in Management	51,574	51,201	32	4	69	31	90 (58)	35	54	30	30	22	20	27	10	2	75	€12,700	20	612	-	100
	19	26	24	23	Reims Management School	France	Master in Management^[2]	49,043	49,145	44	12	72	9	96 (64)	49	47	32	46	34	26	24	18	2	70	€16,800	24	582	-	100
	20	27	16	21	Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School	Belgium	Master in General Management	53,162	53,163	10	37	77	15	95 (100)	37	28	17	22	3	100	23	37	0	98	€8,750	10	118	-	100
	21	28	20	23	IAG-Louvain School of Management	Belgium	Master in Business Engineering	51,216	51,074	18	35	73	27	94 (89)	18	28	0	15	7	14	22	11	2	100	€1,533	24	110	Yes^[4]	100
	22	22	20	21	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	Master of Science in General Management	58,065	58,073	5	36	76	47	91 (93)	30	43	18	24	36	0	33	32	0	89	0	24	537	Yes^[4]	8
	23	20	13	19	Rouen Business School	France	Master in Management^[2]	48,481	48,694	40	24	72	16	90 (69)	51	50	20	31	23	25	26	13	2	66	€15,000	24	530	-	100
	23	29	-	-	Ceram Business School	France	MSc in Management^[2]	48,004	48,268	43	3	72	29	88 (61)	43	59	19	25	21	33	18	19	1	76	€16,000	24	501	Yes^[4]	100
	23	-	-	-	HEC Montreal	Canada	MSc in Administration	54,980	54,980	15	19	82	18	91 (76)	27	46	5	34	34	32	40	45	1	86	C$ 2,960	16	274	Yes^[4]	0
	26	23	22	24	Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management	France	Master in Management	43,440	43,690	47	17	69	39	90 (81)	23	47	19	40	43	6	8	8	2	86	€15,300	24	482	-	100
	27	20	26	24	Universiteit Antwerpen Management School	Belgium	Master of Global Management	47,309	47,309	16	22	78	19	97 (83)	23	58	14	3	63	100	34	42	0	100	€5,800	10	134	-	72
	27	32	-	-	University of Strathclyde Business School	U.K.	Master of Business and Management	44,064	44,064	36	2	81	42	90 (84)	37	40	33	33	95	53	10	41	0	65	£12,000	12	60	-	8
	29	25	28	27	Maastricht University	Netherlands	MSc in International Business	55,622	55,847	3	40	77	36	87 (25)	17	38	27	44	63	55	11	43	0	76	€1,565	12	586	-	0
	30	18	13	20	Aston Business School	U.K.	MSc in International Business	48,308	48,308	19	1	73	35	67 (65)	35	45	46	43	91	38	36	35	0	79	£8,500	10	101	-	0
	31	36	27	31	Helsinki School of Economics	Finland	MSc in Economics and Business Administration	53,432	53,892	12	30	75	37	96 (83)	31	48	40	8	6	0	42	28	2	73	€128	24	455	-	8
	32	31	-	-	Bem Bordeaux Management School	France	MSc in Management	47,867	48,091	42	7	69	30	92 (43)	31	42	18	39	31	6	17	23	2	69	€15,160	24	521	-	100
	33	-	-	-	Imperial College Business School	U.K.	MSc in Management	51,143	51,143	39	49	84	26	82 (65)	19	49	36	74	89	55	20	50	0	94	£19,250	12	156	-	0
	34	40	30	35	University of Bath School of Management	U.K.	MSc in Management	42,147	42,147	25	47	77	20	93 (66)	32	62	25	47	93	19	35	27	0	97	£8,400	12	120	-	0
	35	33	34	34	NHH	Norway	MSc in Economics & Business Administration	55,201	54,161	11	41	74	10	99 (33)	19	33	55	21	11	0	46	30	1	92	NKr 1,800	22	469	Yes^[4]	13
	36	-	-	-	Kozminski University	Poland	Master in Management	41,568	41,568	37	16	80	22	86 (89)	30	46	11	22	30	67	44	25	2	81	Zloty 16,600	21	82	-	9
	37	-	-	-	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Antai	China	Master of Science in Management	43,036	43,036	29	21	85	25	100 (98)	29	35	5	2	0	40	47	22	1	79	Rmb 24,500	30	34	-	100
	38	38	40	39	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	MSc in International Business / Management	46,164	46,164	21	48	75	44	100 (94)	33	37	16	46	25	56	29	46	0	96	€11,500	12	57	-	0
	39	36	33	36	University of Cologne, Faculty of Management	Germany	Master of Science in Business Administration	59,934	59,037	7	38	69	49	72 (91)	31	41	20	4	15	10	43	34	1	60	€2,800	24	623	Yes^[4]	72
	40	44	37	40	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	Master of Science in Management	51,006	50,200	50	32	79	14	71 (50)	29	31	0	27	11	67	39	36	0	88	€24,000	16	123	-	100
	41	29	32	34	ICN Business School	France	Master in Management^[2]	44,546	44,439	45	20	67	13	72 (64)	40	38	13	31	5	4	13	26	1	53	€14,616	24	319	-	100
	42	39	39	40	ESC Tours-Poitiers (ESCEM)	France	Master in Management^[2]	42,429	42,579	49	15	65	34	97 (62)	27	51	6	24	22	33	37	21	2	64	€16,000	24	638	-	100
	43	34	23	33	Durham Business School	U.K.	MA in Management	44,087	44,087	24	44	74	48	82 (83)	24	55	35	64	74	35	45	49	0	85	£8,000	12	69	-	0
	44	43	36	41	Corvinus University of Budapest	Hungary	MSc in Business Administration	42,476	42,278	27	33	72	43	94 (61)	41	56	5	5	2	38	41	40	1	78	Ft 640,000	20	645	Yes^[4]	0
	44	-	-	-	Manchester Business School	U.K.	MSc in International Business and Management	40,617	40,617	28	50	79	24	78 (75)	34	53	14	39	89	43	25	47	0	82	£8,070	12	88	-	0
	46	46	-	-	ESC Clermont	France	Master in Management^[2]	39,935	40,416	48	28	66	33	83 (67)	35	44	8	22	8	15	32	24	2	68	€13,300	21	381	-	100
	47	47	-	-	National Chengchi University	Taiwan	MSc in International Business	42,301	42,301	33	43	66	5	100 (100)	28	50	0	16	3	40	50	38	1	97	T$ 125,568	24	40	-	44
	48	48	-	-	BI Norwegian School of Management	Norway	MSc in Business and Economics	52,461	52,382	26	34	70	46	91 (83)	25	32	38	17	7	0	48	39	0	55	NKr 115,200	24	145	Yes^[4]	0
	48	49	-	-	National Sun Yat-Sen University	Taiwan	Master of Business Administration	42,042	42,042	31	46	68	4	100 (98)	21	33	45	11	0	18	49	44	1	95	T$ 108,710	24	82	-	0
	50	45	38	44	Bradford University School of Management	U.K.	MSc in Management	37,192	37,193	34	45	70	41	90 (34)	34	37	33	35	93	8	28	48	0	79	£7,200	12	180	-	0
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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 190 points separate the top programmes, Cems, from the school ranked number 50. The top 8 participants, from Cems to Mannheim Business School, form the top group of Masters in Management providers. The second group, headed by Esade Business School, spans schools ranked 9th to joint 23rd, a range of some 51 points in total. Differences between schools are small within this group. The 11 Schools within the third group are similarly close together. The Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management, which heads this group, is some 30 points above Kozminski University, the last school in the third group. The remaining 14 schools make up the fourth group.

Footnotes

1. The Cems programme was taught in 17 different countries in 2006.

2. Grande École programme

3. Average fee for Cems participant schools used in calculating 'value for money' criterion.

4. Limited access at masters level. Undergraduate degree in management, business or economics required.

5. These data are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

6. An average of salaries three years after graduation. The figure shown is in US Dollars. It is NOT used in the ranking.
These data are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

7. The ‘salary today’ figure adjusted for salary variations between industry sectors. The figure shown is in US Dollars.

8. The rank is calculated using alumni salaries three years after graduation and course costs. The length of the course is also taken into consideration.

9. The career status of alumni three years after graduation. Progression is measured according to level of seniority and the size of company in which they are employed.

10. The extent to which alumni fulfilled their goals or reasons for doing a Masters in Management. This is measured as a percentage of total returns for a school.

11. Alumni who used the careers service at their business school were asked to rank its effectiveness in their job search.

12. The percentage of the most recent graduating class that were in employment three months after graduation. The figure in brackets shows the percentage of the class for which the school was able to provide employment data.

13. Percentage of female faculty.

14. Percentage of female students.

15. Percentage of female members of the advisory board.

16. Percentage of faculty whose citizenship differs from their country of employment.

17. Percentage of students whose citizenship differs from the country in which they are studying

18. Percentage of the board whose citizenship differs from the country in which the business school is based.

19. A measure based on changes in the country of employment of alumni between graduation and today.

20. Weighted average of four criteria that measure international exposure during the Masters programme.

21. Number of additional languages required on graduation from the Masters programme.

22. Percentage of faculty with a doctoral degree.

23. The minimum programme fees in the currency of the country where the school is based. This includes all fees required to complete the programme but for the Masters portion only.
These data are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

24. The length of the Masters programme.
These data are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

25. The number of students who enrolled on the first year of the Masters programme in the past year (September 1, 2008 - September 1, 2009).

26. Indicates whether an undergraduate degree in management, business or economics is required to enter the Masters programme.
These data are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

27. The percentage of the last graduating class that completed company internships as part of the Masters programme.
These data are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

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