Whether you are looking for full-time MBA or a two-week course to improve your management skills, the Financial Times rankings list the best management programmes available. 

Seven rankings are published annually, relating to MBA, EMBA, Master in Finance, Master in Management programmes and Online MBA programmes, as well as non-degree executive education courses. There is also a ranking of top European business schools.

To find out how the rankings are put together, see the links below for the latest methodologies and table keys — plus our entry criteria and timetables at the end of these pages below:

Global MBA

Online MBA

Executive Education

Masters in Finance

Masters in Management

EMBA

European Business Schools

Executive Education Custom and Open directories 2021

1. Can any business schools participate in the FT rankings?

To be eligible to participate, a school should be accredited or have an affiliation with an AACSB or Equis accredited organisation; it must have a programme that has been running for at least three or four years; and it must have graduated its first class at least three years before the ranking publication date.  We survey graduates that completed their programme three years ago. The exception is Executive Education, where we survey attendees that completed courses or clients who commissioned programmes in the year preceding the ranking publication year.

2. Which journals are included in the FT research rank?

The MBA, EMBA and Online MBA rankings include a research rank. This is calculated according to the number of faculty publications published in 50 academic and practitioner journals. Points are awarded to the business school at which the author is currently employed. The total is then weighted for faculty size. The full list of journals is available here: 50 journals

3. Which exchange rates does the FT use in its salary calculations?

The FT rankings use purchasing power parity rates, published by the International Monetary Fund, rather than normal currency exchange rates. All salary data are converted into $US equivalents. Unlike conventional current rates, PPP conversion factors take into account the cost of living in the country where a currency is used.