Financial Times ranking: top European MBA and MiM degrees ranked

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Financial Times ranking: top European MBA and MiM degrees ranked

As social, governance and environmental standards become more important criteria for business schools to be judged, the Financial Times s ranking team examined how European institutions are faring compared to their global rivals, as well as how students are funding their degrees, alumni seniority and favoured sectors of employment. We look at which degrees — MBA, Executive MBA or Masters in Management — are rated highly for ESG teaching.

Executive MBA and MiM graduates who studied outside Europe rate their business schools' delivery of environmental, social and governance topics more highly than those from European institutions. Only about a third of the European graduates rate them higher on the subject than their peers elsewhere.

MBA and executive MBA programmes taught in Europe dedicate a larger part of their courses to ESG than the schools in the rest of the world. Business schools in Europe dedicate less of their Masters in Management courses to the subject despite higher levels of ESG teaching on MBA and EMBA programmes. The MiM is a predominantly European degree with only one in five courses taught outside the continent.

Only 10 per cent of the fees for the European Masters in Management alumni surveyed by the FT were paid by sponsorships and scholarships - and the figure is lower for the rest of the world. In Europe, the average total fees of MiM alumni are about half that of a MiM in other parts of the world. Nearly 14 per cent of all European MBA alumni fees are paid by sponsorships and scholarships, compared to 17 per cent for the rest of the world.

MBA and MiM graduates are strongly represented in the consulting and finance banking sectors three years after their degrees. Many EMBA graduates are concentrated in industrial, finance banking, IT telecoms and healthcare.

Three years after completing their degrees, graduates from all three masters tend to go into management or executive positions. More MiM graduates enter junior senior management positions while a higher proportion of MBA alumni are in senior manager executive positions. More EMBA graduates are in president MD CEO and other director vice-president positions.