Barcelona, with three schools among the top 50 and top 25 in Europe, is located just behind Paris as management training hub in Europe, according to Financial Times
IESE ranks first for the second consecutive year in the global ranking of management training schools published today by Financial Times. Esade gets eighth place and consolidated in the top-10 ranked 44. Eada IMD and HEC Paris occupy the second and third place in the ranking. The list is made based on responses to questionnaires and customer data to schools.
Consideration is given to the preparation of the program, course design, internationality of the participants and the location where they are taught, the nature of the school and monitoring and the objectives achieved by the program, among others. On the one hand, the custom programs (programs designed for companies), where the IESE repeated as world number one and Esade is ranked at 18 is analyzed; and open programs for managers around the world, where IESE is second in the ranking and Esade the seventh.
Director of Executive Education IESE Mireia Rius, highlighted the network of international alliances and the development of innovative methodologies as triggers the “vicious circle of learning” school. Meanwhile, the managing director of the Unit for Executive Education Esade, Jordi Brunat, associates the recognition of their school to personalized support makes students and a salary increase of these after completing their programs, the result of “the high quality collaborative arrangements with other training Esade international institutions and excellence in skills acquisition and management skills “.
EADA Business School is ranked 44 in the ranking. Director of Programs and International Relations, Jordi Diaz, stressed the internationalization process, the commitment to innovation of its programs and high-value approach to business.
Thus, Barcelona, with three schools among the top 50 and top 25 in Europe, is located just behind Paris (HEC, Insead, Essec and ESCP) as management training hub in Europe.