IESE tops the Financial Times ranking of the best business schools in the world

For the fourth consecutive year, IESE has been ranked number 1 in the global ranking of business schools offering customized programs for executive training, prepared by the Financial Times newspaper.

IESE also holds a very prominent position in the other ranking published by the FT, that of open programs, where it is third.

In the list of the best business schools with customized programs for companies, IESE surpasses Duke Corporate Education, which has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa, and IMD from Switzerland and Singapore. The fourth position is occupied by the London Business School (Great Britain) and the fifth is for HEC Paris (France).

In addition to IESE, two other business schools based in Barcelona, Esade and Eada, appear in this ranking prepared by the Financial Times. In the case of Esade, it ranks number 30 among executive schools offering customized programs, while EADA is number 52 in the ranking.

The other annual ranking prepared by the newspaper Financial Times, that of business schools with open programs, is led by IMD, which occupies the first place, and the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), which is second.

After IESE, which occupies the third position, are the Harvard Business School (United States) and Insead (France, Singapore, UAE).

Among the top 30 business schools in the world for their open programs are two other Spanish ones: Esade, in 21st place, and IE Business School, in 25th. In addition, Eada occupies the 45th position in this ranking.