European Business School Rankings 2017

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EMBA salary increase (%) [1]

International Faculty (%) [2]

Executive Education 2017

Executive Education 2017

EMBA salary today ($) [1]
MBA salary increase (%)

Masters in Management

Masters in Management

Masters in Management
Executive MBA 2017 [1]

Custom programmes -

Faculty with doctorate

Female Faculty (%) [2]
MBA salary today ($)
3 year average rank

Open programmes -
Full time MBA 2017

salary increase (%)

Business School

salary today ($)

Rank 2017

Rank 2016

Rank 2015

Country

(%) [2]
2017
1 1 1 1 London Business School UK 3 154,567 92 11 (1) (3) 222,466 (319,032) (254,208) 55 (78) (86) 4 85,262 63 6 4 24 85 100

2 2 2 2 HEC Paris France 7 132,073 99 4 328277 52 2 99,145 73 8 5 19 71 100

3 4 5 4 IE Business School Spain 4 168,923 108 9 243273 52 3 91,189 78 9 - 38 63 98

4 5 4 4 University of St Gallen Switzerland 19 119,861 66 22 182226 47 1 114,449 67 14 19 16 80 100

5 3 3 4 Insead France 1 167,657 95 5 (2) 281,892 (316,057) 48 (58) - - - 4 6 18 95 98

6 6 7 6 SDA Bocconi Italy 9 129,064 120 33 163053 44 9 75,423 57 16 3 39 33 97

7 8 8 8 Iese Business School Spain 5 147,596 133 8 261150 72 - - - 2 1 27 79 100

8 6 5 6 Esade Business School Spain 6 146,127 116 20 208950 34 8 74,869 74 7 15 37 39 92

9 10 13 11 Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Netherlands 11 120,625 98 26 (17) 134,538 (209,717) 61 (69) 10 79,248 40 29 31 22 52 100

10 9 9 9 IMD Switzerland 8 154,511 81 15 273151 49 - - - 1 2 14 95 100

11 13 14 13 University of Cambridge: Judge UK 2 164,462 107 10 217072 78 - - - 12 24 22 73 96

12 11 10 11 University of Oxford: Saïd UK 12 139,235 87 6 242985 75 - - - 3 14 17 59 100

13 12 11 12 ESCP Europe FR / GB / DE / ES / IT - - - 7 234080 62 6 78,215 50 13 13 38 76 98

14 14 25 18 Edhec Business School France 23 113,502 77 45 122408 39 15 68,708 47 19 11 39 47 90

15 19 18 17 Mannheim Business School Germany 18 113,829 73 (23)** (24) (189,172) (161,120) (48) (49) 11 93,478 59 - 9 34 24 85

15 22 19 19 Warwick Business School UK 15 112,702 74 13 159464 92 20 60,970 84 - 23 34 80 100

15 26 21 21 City University: Cass UK 13 127,110 85 14 179463 75 17 71,201 95 - 28 25 80 94

18 21 16 18 ESMT Berlin Germany 20 108,360 68 16 189046 53 - - - 5 7 21 79 100

19 15 15 16 Vlerick Business School Belgium 30 97,960 72 38 124769 59 35 62,633 45 17 16 29 32 95

20 16 12 16 Imperial College Business School UK 16 112,865 72 21 144411 58 13 66,276 63 - 33 31 95 100

21 17 20 19 Grenoble Ecole de Management FR / RU / GE 28 101,596 76 28 141696 69 27 59,376 44 31 32 42 44 90

22 20 29 24 EMLyon Business School France 34 94,692 54 42 137433 33 23 67,059 39 27 20 34 47 95

23 18 16 19 Essec Business School France - - - 24 161120 49 5 89,067 54 11 8 31 55 99

24 29 36 30 University College Dublin: Smurfit Ireland 23 113,094 71 36 128552 51 14 68,905 34 24 - 37 52 100

25 23 28 25 Nova School of Business and Economics Portugal 20 118,442 88 43 136687 60 16 56,067 53 28 29 35 33 100

26 23 26 25 Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics Portugal 20 118,442 88 43 136687 60 31 46,592 62 22 21 36 43 95

27 28 26 27 Stockholm School of Economics SE / RU / LV - - - 32 130153 50 21 65,854 47 15 18 27 35 99

28 27 24 26 Eada Business School Barcelona Spain 37 95,814 76 53 92100 50 30 65,565 52 23 27 26 58 77

29 23 23 25 Tias Business School Netherlands 32 86,636 63 52 120579 38 47 54,471 49 30 30 23 43 90

30 30 21 27 Cranfield School of Management UK 17 123,773 77 - - - 40 54,175 56 18 10 31 64 95

31 37 35 34 Henley Business School UK - - - 27 158879 58 53 54,452 76 10 17 46 50 87

32 31 32 32 Aalto University Finland - - - 38 137471 40 37 61,363 49 20 25 35 24 97

33 35 41 36 BI Norwegian Business School Norway - - - 51 (19) 142,261 (203,381) 25 (90) 65 63,618 38 34 26 27 25 75

34 34 31 33 University of Strathclyde Business School UK 26 98,105 95 29 166970 66 54 49,727 62 - - 36 49 81

35 38 40 38 NHH Norwegian School of Economics Norway - - - 46 127132 41 55 67,544 43 24 38 26 30 99

35 55 60 50 Frankfurt School of Finance and Management Germany - - - 47 143778 34 34 88,223 32 35 37 17 24 100

37 32 37 35 WHU Beisheim Germany - - - 12 211075 58 7 106,172 58 - - 25 31 100

38 41 38 39 Nyenrode Business Universiteit Netherlands 35 76,100 58 - - - 48 65,342 56 24 35 28 15 95

39 39 39 39 Alliance Manchester Business School UK 10 130,535 108 - - - 75 43,755 40 - 22 36 44 90

40 33 30 34 Kedge Business School France - - - 18 195447 94 42 54,356 37 - 41 28 49 96

41 42 45 43 Politecnico di Milano School of Management Italy 39 75,922 43 54 114393 42 72 42,734 55 36 36 37 9 77

42 44 45 44 Antwerp Management School Belgium - - - 40 160318 35 25 61,164 50 - 40 33 38 98

42 45 44 44 HEC Lausanne Switzerland - - - 35 132716 29 18 74,710 52 - - 25 80 100

44 43 43 43 WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Austria - - - 30 171240 33 12 71,005 40 - - 38 28 96

45 48 53 49 Lancaster University Management School UK 14 114,220 101 - - - 62 44,148 51 - - 31 54 95

46 50 53 50 Neoma Business School France - - - 41 136556 54 33 58,506 44 - - 44 56 89

47 49 50 49 Durham University Business School UK 25 104,321 75 - - - 38 54,306 76 - - 37 67 97

48 40 33 40 HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Germany 38 86,316 63 - - - 19 99,047 44 - - 20 17 100

48 50 55 51 University of Edinburgh Business School UK 27 102,804 67 - - - 43 52,744 60 - - 41 62 94

50 52 48 50 Ashridge Executive Education at Hult UK - - - - - - - - - 21 12 38 57 62

51 35 34 40 Copenhagen Business School Denmark 36 92,940 36 - - - 31 68,965 46 - - 33 39 86

51 47 49 49 Toulouse Business School France - - - 49 116696 47 39 58,809 40 - - 40 43 90

53 63 - - ESC Rennes France - - - 50 121843 22 46 54,689 36 - - 34 91 91

53 56 52 54 Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management Belgium - - - - - - 36 58,491 51 32 - 25 38 94

55 58 56 56 University of Bath School of Management UK 31 100,824 61 - - - 63 47,040 51 - - 32 64 100

56 53 56 55 Leeds University Business School UK 32 79,728 76 - - - 51 42,842 54 - - 41 44 86

St Petersburg State University Graduate School of

57 64 60 60 Russia - - - 56 81988 5 21 57,935 82 - - 54 4 90
Management

58 57 59 58 Skema Business School France - - - - - - 29 62,188 46 - 39 40 44 80

59 62 62 61 Porto Business School Portugal - - - 55 81447 33 - - - 33 34 31 8 85

60 60 63 61 Audencia Business School France - - - - - - 24 70,050 55 - - 46 47 87

61 59 58 59 Iéseg School of Management France - - - - - - 26 54,129 44 - - 46 86 100

Maastricht University School of Business and

62 60 63 62 Netherlands - - - - - - 27 65,516 39 - - 23 56 99
Economics

62 72 65 66 University of Zurich Switzerland - - - 30 146918 38 - - - - - 11 87 100

64 45 45 51 Kozminski University Poland - - - 34 167100 60 - - - - - 38 19 87

65 67 66 66 Koç University Graduate School of Business Turkey - - - 37 179444 51 - - - - - 46 25 96

66 67 74 69 IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management France - - - - - - 41 53,464 43 - - 37 18 92

67 67 68 67 Montpellier Business School France - - - - - - 44 50,145 37 - - 47 53 98

67 66 72 68 ICN Business School France - - - - - - 45 52,663 34 - - 45 50 88

69 73 70 71 Birmingham Business School UK 29 99,765 80 - - - - - - - - 36 45 93

70 67 66 68 Télécom Business School France - - - - - - 49 56,154 28 - - 48 51 75

71 65 69 68 Louvain School of Management Belgium - - - - - - 50 57,321 26 - - 38 22 100

71 71 73 72 Essca School of Management France - - - - - - 52 53,457 35 - - 38 53 92

71 75 75 74 Sabanci University School of Management Turkey - - - 48 153338 37 - - - - - 47 28 100

71 78 76 75 University of Cologne Faculty of Management Germany - - - - - - 56 76,680 35 - - 21 8 100

75 76 79 77 EM Normandie France - - - - - - 57 50,824 42 - - 47 31 76

76 74 - - Université Paris-Dauphine France - - - - - - 58 56,985 24 - - 41 21 94

76 81 76 78 Hanken School of Economics Finland - - - - - - 61 51,772 33 - - 35 18 92

76 82 79 79 Corvinus University of Budapest Hungary - - - - - - 60 45,632 69 - - 44 8 83

76 83 82 80 Warsaw School of Economics Poland - - - - - - 58 48,090 89 - - 44 1 98

80 - - - ISCTE Business School Portugal - - - - - - 72 39,738 48 37 - 47 9 98

81 76 71 76 La Rochelle Business School France - - - - - - 64 50,690 37 - - 56 50 69

82 - - - Brunel Business School UK - - - - - - 66 44,623 61 - - 34 56 95

82 83 - - EM Strasbourg Business School France - - - - - - 68 49,552 38 - - 59 23 77

82 83 42 69 University of Bradford School of Management UK - - - - - - 67 41,990 44 - - 44 28 86

85 79 83 82 Burgundy School of Business France - - - - - - 69 47,876 31 - - 44 40 75

86 87 - - University of Exeter Business School UK - - - - - - 71 48,152 43 - - 34 49 86

86 88 81 85 University of Economics, Prague Czech Republic - - - - - - 70 38,542 70 - - 45 7 85

88 92 - - DCU Business School Ireland - - - - - - 74 46,013 34 - - 49 13 80

88 90 - - Tilburg University Netherlands - - - - - - 76 55,838 33 - - 19 41 83

90 94 - - Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow UK - - - - - - 77 33,822 59 - - 40 60 73

90 86 84 87 ESC Clermont France - - - - - - 78 46,942 32 - - 58 34 68

92 - - - Nottingham Business School at NTU UK - - - - - - 79 32,316 30 - - 46 32 60

93 - - - Luiss University Italy - - - - - - 80 44,827 69 - - 26 11 49

94 - - - KU Leuven Faculty of Economics and Business Belgium - - - - - - 81 45,894 24 - - 38 9 88

95 - - - ISC Paris France - - - - - - 82 45,961 26 - - 47 26 79

Table notes
# Figure in brackets refers to data from separate joint-programme for schools with more than one programme ranked.

†Salary increase from graduation.

‡ Data are provided for information only. Most recently published data are given

*School was ranked outside the final ranking table in 2017.

**School participated in this ranking on the basis of a joint programme only. Underlying score based on proportion of total score.



The heavier horizontal lines denote the pattern of clustering among the schools, based on significant differences in ranking scores. Around 200 points separate London Business School at the top from the school r
anked number 95.The top 12 business schools, from LBS to University of Oxford: Saïd form the top group. The second group is headed by ESCP Europe include 68 schools. The remaining 15 schools in the third group are head
ed by La Rochelle Business School.

Footnotes
1. # Figure in brackets refers to data from additional joint-programmes for schools with more than one ranked programme.
2. ‡ Data are provided for information only. Most recently published data are given.

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