France dominates FT European Business Schools 2020 ranking

French enterprise universities outperform their European friends with the ideal masters programmes and govt education and learning classes throughout the continent, in accordance to the 2020 Fiscal Moments rating.

Four establishments in and about Paris — HEC Paris, Insead, Essec and ESCP — are all in the top ten of the FT’s yearly assessment of ninety European enterprise universities, which contains a overall of 22 French universities.

Eloïc Peyrache, interim dean at top-rated HEC Paris, stated one explanation for its functionality was expenditure in its MBA, which is also now very rated, with a increasing appeal to international learners and school. “We’ve come to be world-wide companions of businesses which appear to . . . recruit from us around the world,” he added.

Two Uk establishments are rated in the top ten, led by London Organization School in next place general, and Oxford: Saïd, joint 10th Yet another a few — Warwick, Cambridge: Choose and Imperial — are between the top 20 and there are 19 Uk universities in the overall ninety.

FT European Organization Educational facilities rating 2020 — the top ninety

Find out which universities are in our rating of European enterprise universities and learn how the desk was compiled.

The FT rating assesses the functionality of enterprise universities for MBAs, govt MBAs and Masters in Management degrees primarily based on things like salary results, as effectively as in non-diploma tailor made and open govt education and learning classes, making use of steps like participant satisfaction. The composite rating is weighted to regulate for the simple fact that some universities do not give all 5 programmes.

Curiosity in European enterprise schools’ skills has held up in the latest months with continued strong demand in spite of coronavirus-induced recessions, health and fitness pressures and travel limitations which have shifted most teaching online. Non-diploma govt education and learning classes have endured more this year, as businesses have lower coaching budgets.

Figures from the Graduate Management Admission Council, which runs the GMAT enterprise university entry exam, exhibit that MBA applications were up for a few quarters of European universities in 2020. This compares with two-thirds of US universities, where an MBA usually prices more and lasts two times as prolonged.

Though French universities are largely community establishments and France in some cases has a standing of being suspicious of capitalism, its enterprise universities are unbiased and attract learners from about the globe, whilst getting ready many of the country’s very own nationals for international enterprise occupations.

A few of the country’s 4 top-rated enterprise universities are privately operate elite grandes écoles, with very competitive entry. All cost considerable fees, draw in learners, school and senior administrators from about the globe, work campuses or partnerships in other international locations and give classes in English — like progressively for their French learners.

HEC, Essec and ESCP, which statements to be the world’s oldest constantly operated enterprise university because its development in 1819, have customarily been supported via the country’s community of regional chambers of commerce. But as guidance from the chambers has been lower, the universities have increased fundraising and are checking out selections to deliver in clean resources of funding.

Insead operates amongst campuses outdoors Paris, in Singapore, Abu Dhabi and the US.