Top for open and custom: HEC Paris
HEC Paris heads the combined table this year. Rising one place in the custom table and seven in the open-enrolment list, the school tops both rankings. Corporate clients gave a top score for their courses in seven of nine categories. One surveyed client said its managers, who can be jaded and reluctant to make time for training, rated the programme at 100 per cent.
Financial Times Executive Education 2022: The top 50 schools
Rank | School | Country | Open Rank | Custom Rank |
| 1 | HEC Paris | France/Qatar | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Iese Business School | Spain/US/Germany/Brazil | 3 | 33 |
| 3 | IMD Business School | Switzerland | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Esade Business School | Spain | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | London Business School | UK/UAE | 7 | 9 |
| 6 | Essec Business School | France | 12 | 5 |
| 7 | SDA Bocconi School of Management | Italy | 13 | 4 |
| 8 | University of Michigan: Ross | US | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | Fundação Dom Cabral | Brazil | 9 | 11 |
| 10 | Edhec Business School | France/UK/Singapore | 15 | 6 |
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| 31 | IAE Business School | Argentina | 38 | 33 |
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Quick facts about the top 50 Executive Education
providers By Wai Kwen Chan
Rank 1: Triple top
HEC Paris is number one for the first time in the custom, open and combined rankings. No other school has topped all three FT Executive Education tables at the same time.
Rank 2: Diverse knowledge
Spain’s Iese had the most diverse full-time teaching staff, by citizenship and gender, on its executive programmes in the past year.
Rank 3: Aiming high
The Swiss school IMD was rated highest for the extent to which participants’ personal and professional expectations were met on their open-enrolment courses.
Rank 7: Repeat business
Clients ranked Italy’s SDA Bocconi as the top school from which they would commission other custom courses in the future.
Rank 8: Top, north America
Michigan’s Ross is the highest-ranked school in north America and top for overall growth in revenues from open programmes.
Rank 9: Top, Latin America
Fundação Dom Cabral, in Brazil, is the highest placed school in Latin America, ninth in the open table and 11th for custom courses.
Rank 13: Class act
Western University’s Ivey school in Canada is number one for the quality of its teaching on open-enrolment courses.
Rank 14: Top in Asia
Ceibs in Shanghai is the highest ranked school in Asia. There are six schools from the region in the combined top 50.
Rank 27: Giant leap
Portugal’s Católica Lisbon is the biggest riser, up 23 places in the combined table thanks to gains of at least 20 places in the custom and open tables.
Rank 28: New contender
Germany’s WHU – Otto Beisheim is the highest new entrant, thanks to its appearance in the custom ranking for the first time.
Rank 38: Three up
France’s Kedge is the joint second-highest riser in the combined table, jumping 22 places, as did Portugal’s Nova and Porto, ranked 22nd and 40th respectively.
Rank 41=: Africa’s finest
Lagos, in Nigeria, is the sole business school from Africa in the top 50. The school improved its position in the open ranking by 19 places.