London Surges To Top Of BW’s Non-U.S. Schools
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London Business School surged to the top of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s 2012 ranking of the best non-U.S. full-time MBA programs.
London jumped four places to finish first, moving aside INSEAD which fell to second place. IE Business School in Spain was third, followed by Queen’s College in Canada and Oxford University’s Said School in fifth. For Oxford, the rank of fifth represented a 11-place climb from 2010 when it was ranked 16th.
In an online chat timed to the release of BW’s latest survey on Nov. 15, editor Geoff Gloeckler explained the reason for Oxford’s big move forward. “Oxford has seen steady improvement in their student satisfaction score over the past three rankings cycles,” he said. “Also, the school’s employer score jumped quite a bit after a less-than-stellar 2010. Oxford is one of only three schools in the ranking that finished in the top ten of all three rankings categories. The other two schools are LBS and INSEAD.”
Unlike the FT or The Economist, BW publishes a separate international list
Unlike The Financial Times or The Economist, Bloomberg BusinessWeek publishes a separate list of the best international schools and does not combine all the schools in a single global ranking. The reason is because of BusinessWeek’s methodology which largely relies on satisfaction surveys of students and corporate recruiters. Largely because the recruiters who hire MBAs in Europe and Asia are not the same as those who hire in the U.S., combining the results could lead to complications.
This year BusinessWeek ranked 19 non-U.S. schools, it’s largest number ever. But not a single school in either India or China made the list. The only Asian school to crack the ranking was Hong Kong’s University of Science & Technology which came in at a rank of 18th. The school hadn’t made BusinessWeek’s 2010 ranking, the last time the magazine published its biennial ranking.
Although London Business School’s four-place gain allowed it to push aside INSEAD for the honor of best international school in the BusinessWeek survey, the single biggest winner may well be Oxford’s Said School.
Oxford jumped 11 spots to finish fifth, up from 16th two years ago. The school improved its standing on all three of the core metrics measured by BusinessWeek: student satisfaction, corporate recruiter satisfaction and intellectual capital. Moreover, the biggest gains came in the category that essentially has the most weight in the methodology, recruiter attitudes toward the schools.
The school improved its recruiter rank by ten full places to finish 7th among the international schools this year, up from 17th two years ago. In student satisfaction, Oxford ranked 8th, three places better than its 11th place showing in 2010. And on intellectual capital, the school did one place better, finishing at a rank of sixth this year, up from seventh two years ago.
IESE Business School in Spain also gained ground in the ranking, moving up four places this year to finish in eighth place, up from 12th in 2010.
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