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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 370 points separate the top school, Duke Corporate Education, from the school ranked number 65. The top nine business schools, from Duke CE to MIT Sloan School of Management, form the top group of custom providers. The second group is headed by Ashridge Business School and the third by ESCP-EAP European School of Management. The top and bottom schools in the second group are separated by 58 points; in the third group there is a 168 point gap between top and bottom.

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

2. The level of interaction with the business school; the extent to which purchasers' ideas were integrated into the programme; and the effectiveness of the business school in integrating its latest research into the programme.

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

4. Contemporary and appropriate teaching materials and a suitable mix of academic rigour and practical relevance.

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

6. The relevance of new skills 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 workplace.

8. The degree to which academic and business expectations were met and the feedback from individual participants.

9. The quality of food and accommodation.

10. The quality of the teaching accommodation, IT and library facilities.

11. Purchaser's rating, in terms of value for money, of the course design, teaching materials and food and accommodation.

12. Purchasers were asked to rate the likelihood that they would use the same business school again and if they would use that business school to do the same programme again.

13. Amalgamates the percentage of clients headquartered outside the business school's base country and its region (e.g. North America, Europe, South America).

14. Custom programmes with participants from more than one country.

15. Custom programmes that have been taught in more than one country.

16. Custom programmes developed or taught in conjunction with other business schools.

17. The mix of faculty by nationality and gender.

	Rank '07	Rank '06^[1]	Rank '05^[1]	3 yr. rank^[1]	Business school name	Country^[1]	Preparation^[2]	Course design^[3]	Materials^[4]	Faculty^[5]	New skills^[6]	Follow-up^[7]	Aims achieved^[8]	Food^[9]	Facilities^[10]	Value^[11]	Future use^[12]	Intl. clients^[13]	% Intl.^[14]	Intl. progs^[15]	Partners^[16]	Fac. diversity^[17]
	1	1	1	1	Duke Corporate Education	U.S.A. / U.K. / India	1	1	1	8	1	1	3	7	5	9	1	6	1	1	1	14
	2	2	2	2	IMD	Switzerland	15	10	3	6	3	18	4	11	6	26	5	7	5	22	3	1
	3	3	-	-	Harvard Business School	U.S.A.	7	3	2	1	4	34	2	5	1	5	10	24	7	59	17	28
	4	13	8	8	Iese Business School	Spain	20	29	21	15	34	8	13	13	3	25	25	4	6	6	2	2
	5	8	9	7	Babson Executive Education	U.S.A.	28	5	17	2	9	51	7	3	12	2	3	37	35	30	17	27
	6	5	10	7	University of Chicago GSB	U.S.A. / U.K. / Singapore	9	21	22	10	6	22	11	12	4	11	7	30	24	25	17	17
	7	15	6	9	Columbia Business School	U.S.A.	2	2	4	3	5	16	5	17	40	21	22	29	40	59	7	38
	8	7	7	7	Thunderbird School of Global Management	U.S.A. / Russia	5	4	7	5	16	53	8	46	26	17	15	2	44	36	7	4
	9	6	10	8	MIT: Sloan	U.S.A.	6	11	13	4	2	50	10	36	50	33	2	11	8	28	4	44
	10	20	15	15	Ashridge	U.K.	29	31	33	7	25	26	23	14	23	34	31	9	2	2	7	6
	11	9	14	11	HEC Paris	France	3	7	16	21	14	41	6	41	33	15	6	37	30	38	17	12
	12	31	13	19	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	U.S.A.	24	14	8	19	28	10	27	1	2	4	27	51	26	59	17	46
	13	18	21	17	Emory University: Goizueta	U.S.A.	27	9	6	20	7	20	20	25	21	13	30	47	16	49	7	21
	13	17	12	14	Ipade	Mexico	10	16	5	16	17	9	9	15	16	7	24	48	61	54	7	64
	15	9	23	16	Center for Creative Leadership	U.S.A. / Belgium / Singapore	37	30	9	18	19	29	31	20	11	6	23	19	12	23	17	31
	16	27	30	24	IAE Management and Business School	Argentina	26	34	10	23	38	6	17	43	13	14	45	1	20	7	7	19
	17	14	5	12	Insead	France / Singapore	30	38	15	22	20	52	16	26	29	37	12	5	3	13	17	3
	17	35	47	33	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia	12	12	36	38	12	3	12	21	28	28	4	32	41	24	17	55
	17	15	-	-	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	U.S.A.	4	19	14	12	11	55	29	10	9	3	53	24	29	26	7	41
	20	27	41	29	Boston University School of Management	U.S.A.	13	8	12	26	10	57	22	22	22	19	41	16	32	47	17	40
	20	33	39	31	UCLA: Anderson	U.S.A.	11	28	28	33	31	7	35	40	15	22	29	17	33	31	17	11
	22	11	3	12	London Business School	U.K.	21	35	26	11	41	47	18	39	37	40	13	11	9	11	7	10
	23	25	33	27	University of Michigan: Ross	U.S.A.	17	26	19	28	8	25	26	37	45	27	14	24	45	53	17	41
	23	32	20	25	University of Western Ontario: Ivey	Canada / China	16	36	23	27	37	32	24	27	47	30	16	10	13	35	17	20
	25	38	37	33	SDA Bocconi	Italy	25	24	32	25	13	4	14	63	30	20	11	45	42	56	17	16
	26	4	4	11	Stanford University GSB	U.S.A.	34	22	20	14	32	61	28	6	14	24	34	17	36	59	17	23
	27	11	16	18	Cranfield School of Management	U.K.	23	40	30	30	23	27	21	35	42	35	28	24	15	37	4	24
	27	30	25	27	Fundação Dom Cabral	Brazil	14	37	25	32	30	5	43	9	10	29	17	55	53	52	17	49
	29	-	45	-	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	U.S.A.	22	50	11	13	15	2	30	53	34	44	9	32	56	42	17	49
	29	37	42	36	University of Wisconsin-Madison	U.S.A.	32	25	44	31	22	35	45	2	7	1	38	54	59	59	17	63
	31	20	29	27	Kelley Executive Partners at Indiana University	U.S.A.	18	13	29	9	40	44	38	24	18	16	21	63	48	10	17	58
	32	44	46	41	ESCP-EAP European School of Management	France / U.K. / Germany / Spain / Italy	52	27	38	35	29	15	19	48	60	41	18	48	4	12	17	8
	33	38	19	30	Esade Business School	Spain	33	45	31	43	39	19	37	30	24	45	40	14	21	3	7	34
	33	49	-	-	Lancaster University Management School	U.K.	41	18	43	34	24	24	46	32	54	23	36	11	50	4	17	52
	35	57	50	47	Pennsylvania State University: Smeal	U.S.A.	40	33	35	17	36	23	36	8	43	18	35	57	17	16	17	61
	35	22	-	-	University of Maryland: Smith	U.S.A.	8	54	24	42	33	14	58	16	20	8	43	61	46	32	17	39
	37	23	-	-	University of Oxford: Saïd	U.K.	35	6	34	29	26	62	15	28	46	32	49	39	11	27	17	24
	38	35	26	33	University of Virginia: Darden	U.S.A.	36	39	18	24	46	45	25	4	17	12	47	64	25	55	17	61
	39	43	-	-	Vlerick Leuven Gent	Belgium	38	17	48	45	52	65	33	18	32	36	8	22	19	20	17	29
	40	41	31	37	Henley Management College	U.K.	43	15	54	37	18	48	34	34	48	39	20	44	18	44	17	52
	40	33	-	-	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	31	20	39	39	35	37	39	60	25	46	57	19	55	39	17	21
	42	-	-	-	Ibmec São Paulo	Brazil	19	42	41	44	42	28	64	29	19	10	62	40	63	43	17	55
	43	40	38	40	EM Lyon	France	45	47	37	36	21	40	41	55	56	50	33	51	31	19	17	32
	43	27	23	31	Essec Business School	France / Singapore	50	49	40	48	27	11	32	64	58	53	54	32	27	9	17	9
	43	51	-	-	Universität St.Gallen	Switzerland	42	32	27	41	43	21	40	45	64	61	60	42	10	8	17	29
	46	-	-	-	Helsinki School of Economics	Finland / S. Korea / Singapore	44	23	47	46	45	58	42	33	36	31	44	58	38	14	17	65
	47	42	33	41	Arizona State University: Carey	U.S.A.	47	61	58	49	49	46	1	23	31	47	61	32	46	32	17	57
	47	24	17	29	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	56	53	42	50	44	17	53	59	51	58	42	21	14	15	4	24
	49	56	-	-	TiasNimbas, Tilburg University	Netherlands	46	46	49	54	53	56	50	47	27	42	37	61	22	5	17	44
	49	51	-	-	University of Pretoria: Gibs	South Africa	54	51	55	61	61	12	47	31	41	51	26	40	39	21	17	32
	51	-	49	-	York University: Schulich	Canada	39	62	46	52	55	38	52	44	38	48	39	42	64	58	17	13
	52	-	-	-	Catholic University of Portugal	Portugal	49	52	53	40	57	13	59	19	8	64	64	36	43	59	17	58
	52	46	27	42	Hong Kong UST Business School	China	63	44	50	58	62	33	62	49	44	55	48	7	23	51	17	5
	52	44	22	39	IE Business School	Spain	53	56	56	59	63	39	54	38	63	60	50	3	28	18	7	6
	55	50	-	-	Macquarie Graduate School of Management	Australia	55	43	51	51	54	36	51	57	65	52	19	24	60	57	17	43
	56	-	-	-	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	U.S.A.	48	41	64	47	48	60	48	54	49	38	65	23	52	59	17	60
	56	60	35	50	Universidad Adolfo Ibanez	Chile	61	59	45	64	59	30	44	58	55	56	46	15	62	41	17	54
	58	48	27	44	Warwick Business School	U.K.	60	55	62	57	51	43	56	42	53	43	51	58	57	45	17	36
	59	53	-	-	Wits Business School	South Africa	58	48	52	65	47	49	63	50	52	54	55	45	54	46	17	15
	60	59	44	54	Australian Graduate School of Management	Australia	62	63	60	62	56	54	49	52	61	49	52	50	37	29	17	17
	61	58	-	-	Melbourne Business School	Australia	64	57	65	53	50	59	61	56	59	59	56	51	49	50	17	35
	62	47	39	49	Edhec Business School	France	59	64	61	55	60	31	55	65	39	65	32	56	34	17	17	47
	62	-	-	-	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	57	60	57	63	64	42	60	51	62	57	59	58	51	40	17	48
	64	54	31	50	Manchester Business School	U.K.	51	58	63	56	58	63	57	62	57	62	58	30	58	47	17	37
	65	-	48	-	BI Norwegian School of Management	Norway	65	65	59	60	65	64	65	61	35	63	63	65	65	32	17	49
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