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Executive Education - Customised - 2018

	2018	2017	2016	3-year average	School	Country	Preparation^[1]	Prog. design^[2]	Teaching	Faculty^[3]	Skills^[4]	Follow-up^[5]	Aims achieved^[6]	Facilities^[7]	Value^[8]	Future use^[9]	Intl. clients^[10]	Intl. progs.^[11]	Growth	Partner schools^[12]	Fac. diversity^[13]	Total Responses
	1	10	1	10	Iese Business School	Spain	23	43	33	30	11	21	22	70	23	30	10	20	269	21	10	40 (3)
	2	30	3	30	Duke Corporate Education	US / UK / Singapore / South Africa/ India	42	20	23	22	91	53	80	54	37	76	40	32	403	41	111	46 (3)
	3	20	4	31	IMD Business School	Switzerland / Singapore	30	10	10	11	21	1910	10	31	42	11	101	62	533	4722	52	30 (3)
	4	60	5	50	London Business School	UK	11	39	47	43	55	236	57	159	81	190	187	12	3232	82	73	52 (3)
	5	70	2	51	HEC Paris	France	87	65	87	51	32	82	30	128	115	44	243	84	312	182	61	40 (3)
	6	90	8	81	Insead	France / Singapore / UAE	107	105	95	63	143	279	90	113	137	1110	21	127	500	254	31	46 (3)
	7	40	6	60	SDA Bocconi	Italy	76	84	75	105	123	31	114	93	63	166	302	375	375	71	232	33 (3)
	8	130	16	12	Stanford Graduate School of Business	US	56	97	57	96	104	4711	71	12	52	84	344	605	1317	563	552	30 (3)
	9	50	14	93	Harvard Business School	US	95	159	118	76	43	546	42	64	106	123	80	5718	561	436	465	43 (3)
	10	120	13	121	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	US	113	52	61	83	136	5719	61	41	10	141	623	2826	3611	562	430	34 (3)
	11	200	26	197	University of Michigan: Ross	US	1418	138	1412	1312	815	916	1212	2017	126	621	310	4614	110	260	485	35 (3)
	12	170	15	154	Essec Business School	France / Singapore	610	117	1213	1612	611	1718	1412	265	235	1015	253	91	5748	103	212	30 (3)
	13	-	-	-	Renmin University of China Business School (RMBS)	China	19	20	26	27	15	1	28	23	15	2	70	30	1	3	65	14 (1)
	14	160	28	197	Fundação Dom Cabral	Brazil	121	73	137	127	113	265	108	26	166	50	7412	3412	8037	1210	5812	48 (3)
	15	260	17	191	MIT: Sloan	US	1716	2114	159	3412	175	151	256	1613	215	151	111	1410	4922	563	356	31 (3)
	16	100	7	113	Center for Creative Leadership	Americas / APAC / EMEA	1811	2512	179	2012	2512	72	2010	198	197	2013	2811	271	3433	563	294	31 (3)
	16	190	20	181	Ipade Business School	Mexico	131	140	101	115	73	7913	132	100	71	227	8326	732	4529	3524	631	40 (3)
	18	240	27	233	ESCP Europe	France / UK / Germany / Spain / Italy	2416	274	183	1515	1913	5331	1620	3123	322	185	142	45	2525	135	130	23 (3)
	19	80	9	121	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	2011	189	1612	2111	164	62	196	377	97	98	771	5118	2722	5623	8111	27 (3)
	20	140	12	151	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	2810	289	214	184	226	3617	274	141	227	139	218	2923	3047	5123	261	42 (3)
	21	150	-	-	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	155	2217	2714	2815	3716	43	172	172	185	5127	4410	308	2163	2925	624	11 (2)
	22	300	-	-	Emory University: Goizueta	US	163	1216	248	146	1811	119	1823	297	145	454	5912	732	5245	563	7924	10 (2)
	23	110	20	181	ESMT Berlin	Germany	239	168	199	175	289	143	2413	137	3114	433	298	394	6346	176	5634	40 (3)
	24	400	39	348	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	2910	3018	2015	2910	2416	1027	295	259	3513	3022	150	268	5530	2810	3315	28 (3)
	25	230	19	221	Ashridge Executive Education at Hult	UK	323	336	234	225	269	4517	263	326	340	313	206	1912	2420	378	226	36 (3)
	26	260	23	251	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	273	191	221	251	3811	2012	151	485	363	266	172	174	8634	563	3014	44 (3)
	27	220	29	263	Edhec Business School	France	214	170	4010	192	202	258	3010	2217	292	259	533	3513	6222	563	6025	30 (3)
	28	360	45	36	University of Tennessee: Haslam	US	2219	2416	2513	2610	352	1811	2216	88	2513	355	7511	558	95	563	854	20 (3)
	29	250	32	293	Incae Business School	Costa Rica / Nicaragua	254	297	2810	353	232	655	420	3617	272	606	61	187	6819	536	44	39 (3)
	30	290	18	266	Esade Business School	Spain	352	352	345	323	331	388	3310	3813	387	381	133	4034	648	53	258	32 (3)
	31	210	10	217	Cranfield School of Management	UK	3310	262	4119	232	3612	5112	3211	509	372	536	227	76	1234	62	206	31 (3)
	31	460	36	385	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	314	542	3610	436	2915	1211	4012	1810	3313	5812	317	6312	1765	563	423	20 (3)
	33	180	11	2110	Mannheim Business School	Germany	343	322	2913	3113	3010	3119	236	2718	3915	2721	521	1110	2010	141	7612	30 (3)
	34	-	-	-	University of Arizona: Eller	US	26	31	33	24	39	43	36	33	24	46	57	23	38	56	16	7 (1)
	35	380	30	341	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	367	456	374	403	420	2124	418	476	281	4812	372	142	4217	10	522	47 (3)
	36	420	37	381	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	305	239	3212	304	276	4120	216	4320	625	3720	433	2019	5115	427	400	41 (3)
	37	520	55	4810	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	448	4014	4618	5013	416	1631	4314	4120	4016	4010	72	4922	7844	1113	171	28 (3)
	38	280	31	320	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	4014	3411	3011	4110	216	336	3914	2415	209	3921	6017	664	850	3814	693	26 (3)
	39	500	-	-	Warwick Business School	UK	3916	443	4317	448	447	2919	458	350	2623	709	488	252	222	563	6739	16 (2)
	39	320	24	327	Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU	US	4113	3812	5821	367	315	5620	5419	5916	5515	568	93	7113	2855	496	154	19 (3)
	39	310	40	371	University of Virginia: Darden	US	426	373	312	3711	324	527	3412	5814	173	5715	6122	6415	2212	3211	7413	27 (3)
	42	450	41	433	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	511	523	446	544	496	326	501	513	473	332	122	245	611	2711	284	47 (3)
	43	440	42	432	EMLyon Business School	France	471	5512	3911	339	472	407	535	3027	5912	2115	660	168	417	563	311	24 (3)
	44	330	33	371	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	435	391	426	5114	5014	462	4412	4210	447	247	451	1010	7557	2313	472	53 (3)
	44	550	61	535	Aalto University	Finland / Singapore	4516	4115	3517	4213	4015	2823	359	3424	3021	5014	728	132	7765	524	6913	37 (3)
	46	-	-	-	Audencia Business School	France	46	59	62	49	43	13	47	44	54	29	84	59	3	56	45	14 (1)
	46	350	33	386	Henley Business School	UK	388	4711	4916	5611	4818	3418	4618	6317	4210	6112	53	417	2355	4415	4420	30 (3)
	48	610	50	532	Columbia Business School	US	632	4216	3817	476	3415	768	3114	2810	709	725	168	589	714	563	182	18 (3)
	49	530	49	501	Western University: Ivey	Canada / China	545	495	615	385	524	815	493	536	511	548	279	477	1555	2212	195	41 (3)
	50	470	35	448	Melbourne Business School	Australia	587	505	471	536	531	221	512	690	585	478	392	7347	5419	4637	147	31 (3)
	51	410	45	460	Gordon Institute of Business Science at UP	South Africa	3717	367	508	455	555	6613	370	5216	4312	3221	7119	4313	663	2412	779	36 (3)
	52	580	54	553	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	534	4310	4513	528	453	4410	592	6610	564	447	564	2248	7411	1526	324	42 (3)
	53	340	22	3613	University of Chicago: Booth	US / UK / Singapore	5218	4613	4817	3916	5112	8232	3822	5623	4625	6628	263	4918	1960	345	4111	26 (3)
	54	390	51	48	York University: Schulich	Canada	5510	588	527	609	585	249	569	6212	459	4916	2310	615	8779	4816	91	40 (3)
	55	480	38	477	Ceibs	China	569	576	558	612	623	556	577	497	6612	4216	3330	723	6753	5616	122	36 (3)
	56	600	-	-	City, University of London: Cass	UK	494	537	547	557	5611	3017	4814	651	643	786	328	3318	8325	5626	238	20 (2)
	57	630	74	658	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	India	488	6310	566	4611	737	800	586	4015	4114	1717	828	6211	3330	554	885	24 (3)
	58	430	42	485	Peking University: Guanghua	China	508	6119	5319	5918	6019	428	6021	3912	497	5520	789	704	7133	5639	839	26 (3)
	59	560	47	541	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	India	656	625	607	646	653	7013	624	542	507	231	8549	5213	1645	1641	841	58 (3)
	60	510	52	543	Insper	Brazil	5713	482	518	484	548	896	550	214	5211	6823	6520	7313	4325	563	8648	24 (3)
	61	540	52	561	Irish Management Institute	Ireland	617	512	6312	659	646	3915	648	7710	7716	288	4136	3220	794	5620	598	41 (3)
	62	620	63	623	Nova School of Business and Economics	Portugal	600	651	641	632	591	692	612	730	685	3422	632	693	4640	563	4915	65 (3)
	63	660	65	651	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	624	565	590	587	577	753	651	705	636	657	426	3611	3917	508	7849	45 (3)
	64	680	75	695	Lagos Business School	Nigeria	663	641	692	682	680	487	663	641	614	368	761	732	1070	411	663	41 (3)
	65	490	58	57	Fundação Getulio Vargas - EAESP	Brazil	5911	6019	573	5719	4615	8416	5212	5515	4825	5916	8810	732	8973	563	681	22 (3)
	66	570	56	601	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	7214	6910	669	7511	669	498	7011	6711	575	630	691	59	635	543	733	44 (3)
	67	700	67	684	University of Cape Town: Graduate School of Business	South Africa	714	701	686	720	690	594	670	801	5313	4117	4632	7330	7069	563	3611	27 (3)
	68	640	59	641	Tias Business School, Tilburg University	Netherlands	681	664	651	704	632	3511	683	790	602	6411	6814	382	7259	3112	511	51 (3)
	69	590	48	5911	UCLA: Anderson	US	7411	718	7611	6214	619	7330	639	4524	7210	741	3611	5312	5922	365	612	24 (3)
	70	670	66	683	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	640	671	746	745	676	506	724	728	695	802	552	681	837	2126	275	28 (3)
	71	720	82	75	Yonsei University School of Business	South Korea	700	720	811	696	711	375	696	611	671	7314	804	732	6954	563	897	21 (3)
	72	730	69	710	Alberta School of Business	Canada	692	681	673	662	723	7713	752	766	732	844	818	732	2933	3911	3623	36 (3)
	73	740	62	705	Imperial College Business School	UK	677	761	733	826	782	9013	766	743	840	751	479	481	651	918	24	26 (3)
	73	710	78	742	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	779	8010	723	7710	817	789	732	683	785	691	4810	214	352	406	341	51 (3)
	75	750	64	711	Porto Business School	Portugal	753	732	703	713	773	8318	743	600	803	624	5319	7313	8217	3320	808	72 (3)
	75	690	81	75	Queen's University: Smith	Canada	807	746	794	787	809	685	808	578	711	816	501	6722	4745	563	4910	38 (3)
	77	650	44	6216	IAE Business School	Argentina	7614	8410	7122	6713	707	887	7717	4628	7617	7712	861	732	181	563	5720	24 (3)
	78	-	-	-	Sabanci University School of Management	Turkey	78	78	77	79	84	60	71	87	65	52	88	73	76	56	36	15 (1)
	79	820	84	821	Skema Business School	France	811	831	842	844	757	5821	791	885	866	823	384	4410	1418	194	81	23 (3)
	80	780	76	782	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	793	756	754	734	741	637	784	784	887	854	583	561	7319	563	9010	31 (3)
	81	-	79	-	Universidad Adolfo Ibanez	Chile	73	77	83	76	85	87	83	81	74	90	18	73	4	56	64	16 (2)
	82	770	77	792	Politecnico di Milano School of Management	Italy	824	856	876	813	834	642	812	839	816	798	671	4222	5832	206	751	44 (3)
	83	-	-	-	University of British Columbia: Sauder	Canada	87	79	78	83	88	61	86	86	82	71	64	73	44	56	54	9 (1)
	84	800	-	-	Centrum PUCP Graduate Business School	Peru	834	873	801	864	792	722	852	711	835	883	4018	732	9063	563	105	28 (3)
	85	760	72	783	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	8811	815	8210	856	8212	6210	826	846	795	767	733	735	8427	563	868	45 (3)
	86	790	73	792	NHH Norwegian School of Economics	Norway	854	824	858	807	865	861	846	8219	753	897	874	5420	485	307	691	45 (3)
	87	810	70	791	Esan	Peru	842	866	868	887	762	6715	898	851	8711	8618	5116	732	8161	4514	823	19 (3)
	88	-	71	-	QUT Business School	Australia	86	88	88	87	87	71	88	75	89	87	88	73	60	56	52	33 (2)
	89	840	80	845	USB Executive Development	South Africa	905	898	895	894	906	8514	873	899	852	670	352	651	8849	563	3626	13 (3)
	90	850	83	863	Kedge Business School	France	895	905	905	906	894	748	905	905	905	839	792	4510	523	563	7212	19 (3)
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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. About 385 points separate the top school, Iese Business School, from the school ranked number 90. The top 14 business schools, from Iese to Fundação Dom Cabral, form the top group of custom providers. The second group, which is led by MIT: Sloan, includes 65 schools. The third group of 11 schools is led by Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

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1. The level of interaction between client and school, the extent to which purchasers’ ideas were integrated into the programme, and the effectiveness of the school in integrating its latest research.

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

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

4. The relevance of skills gained to the workplace, the ease with which they were implemented, and the extent to which the course encouraged new ways of thinking.

5. The extent and effectiveness of follow-up offered after the course participants returned to their workplaces.

6. The extent to which academic and business expectations were met, and the quality of feedback from individual participants to purchasers.

7. Rating of the learning environment’s quality and convenience, and of supporting resources and facilities.

8. Purchasers’ rating of the programme’s design, teaching and materials in terms of value for money.

9. The likelihood that clients would use the same school for future customised programmes, and whether they would use the school for the same programme.

10. The percentage of clients with headquarters outside the business school’s base country and region.

11. The international reach of the school’s customised programme teaching.

12. The quantity and quality of programmes developed or taught in conjunction with other business schools.

13. The mix of faculty by nationality and gender.

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