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European Business School Rankings 2018

	Rank 2018	Rank 2017	Rank 2016	3-year rank	Business School	Country	Full time MBA 2018	MBA sal ($)^[1]	MBA sal inc (%)^[2]	Executive MBA 2018^[3]	EMBA Sal ($)^[3]	EMBA sal inc (%)^[3]	Masters in Management 2018	MiM Sal ($)	MiM sal inc (%)	Open ExecEd '18	Custom ExecEd '18	Female faculty (%)^[4]	International faculty (%)^[4]	Faculty with doctorate (%)^[4]
	1	10	1	1	London Business School	UK	2	167,89713,330	10917	9 (3) (9)	243,250 (307,840) (253,454)	68 (76) (72)	3	89,8014,539	63	6	3	24	82	991
	2	20	2	2	HEC Paris	France	6	135,8583,785	1056	4 (1)	322,043 (342,970)	68 (60)	2	96,2492,896	72	7	4	20	70	1000
	3	50	3	4	Insead	France / Singapore / UAE	1	177,1579,500	10510	8 (2)	279,102 (365,736)	45 (54)	-	-	-	4	5	18	96	962
	4	40	5	4	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	15	115,8793,982	642	26	174584	49	1	108,6215,828	54	14	18	16	75	1000
	5	70	8	7	Iese Business School	Spain / US	3	148,480884	1267	5	270281	67	-	-	-	3	1	29	83	1000
	6	6	6	6	Università Bocconi	Italy	9	120,151	117	42	166218	42	6	77,452	61	14	6	39	34	98
	7	100	9	9	IMD Business School	Switzerland	7	156,9082,397	792	13	273654	50	-	-	-	1	2	17	98	1000
	8	230	18	16	Essec Business School	France	28	102,201	48	23	161349	49	4	93,4614,394	63	10	7	34	56	990
	9	90	10	9	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	11	121,538913	8810	29 (21)	130,646 (204,309)	52 (60)	8	78,922326	45	28	31	24	55	1000
	10	120	11	11	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	8	145,5376,302	9912	11	254160	63	-	-	-	2	11	22	65	1000
	11	130	12	12	ESCP Europe	FR / GB / DE / ES / IT / PL	-	-	-	6	238908	65	5	80,3462,131	49	17	8	38	78	991
	12	150	22	16	Warwick Business School	UK	12	110,2642,438	773	12	170236	87	18	57,9902,980	85	-	20	34	77	1000
	13	110	13	12	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	4	162,1432,319	1007	14	228190	72	-	-	-	13	19	19	71	982
	14	140	14	14	Edhec Business School	France	21	107,5055,997	792	40	117763	46	16	68,866158	44	17	12	40	53	922
	15	80	6	10	Esade Business School	Spain	5	143,5422,585	1193	-	-	-	10	81,6156,746	65	9	13	36	40	931
	16	150	26	19	City University: Cass	UK	13	121,9645,146	805	17	188723	78	27	64,2096,992	73	-	28	24	81	951
	17	300	30	26	Cranfield School of Management	UK	16	121,5802,193	725	33	135586	63	44	55,4081,233	53	16	14	33	45	923
	18	150	19	17	Mannheim Business School	Germany	16	118,2604,431	685	(23)** (25)	161,349 (197,454)	49 (42)	13	89,4254,053	49	-	16	35	28	850
	19	200	16	18	Imperial College Business School	UK	14	118,3245,459	684	19	162056	66	14	67,4771,201	49	-	34	28	95	1000
	20	30	4	9	IE Business School	Spain	-	-was 168,923	-was 108	7	271488	60	9	79,78411,405	69	11	-	40	65	980
	21	220	20	21	EMLyon Business School	France / Morocco / China	30	92,5172,175	595	32	133680	39	33	65,2701,789	37	32	22	33	52	972
	22	190	15	19	Vlerick Business School	Belgium	34	87,65910,301	648	41	135455	61	34	67,0414,408	47	20	23	29	34	950
	23	240	29	25	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	26	102,64310,451	638	35	138219	53	7	68,400505	45	24	-	35	50	1000
	24	180	21	21	ESMT Berlin	Germany	24	106,5811,779	5711	20	185011	48	-	-	-	5	9	22	78	1000
	25	270	28	27	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden / Russia / Latvia	-	-	-	35	129540	49	11	75,7929,938	49	11	17	25	35	990
	26	210	17	21	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France / Russia / Georgia	33	87,27414,322	760	30	135114	87	36	60,200824	45	33	34	43	46	911
	27	370	32	32	WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management	Germany	26	112,794	54	15	217801	58	15	101,3044,868	47	29	-	23	30	1000
	28	260	23	26	Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics	Portugal	22	113,4704,972	7513	54	122248	47	24	53,2956,703	55	25	21	36	43	950
	29	280	27	28	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	36	92,0253,789	782	56	94628	54	29	62,6812,884	62	23	27	28	56	781
	30	250	23	26	Nova School of Business and Economics	Portugal	22	113,4704,972	7513	54	122248	47	24	56,427360	60	27	30	35	30	1000
	31	290	23	28	Tias Business School, Tilburg University	Netherlands	35	88,6231,987	5112	44	133769	45	41	56,2661,795	45	30	33	28	47	891
	32	310	37	33	Henley Business School	UK	-	-	-	28	153158	56	63	47,4746,978	70	8	25	49	54	870
	33	510	35	40	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	31	91,8071,133	448	27	185337	57	31	70,3441,379	47	-	-	31	39	959
	34	320	31	32	Aalto University	Finland	-	-	-	46	146346	33	38	61,491128	48	22	23	32	27	970
	35	400	33	36	Kedge Business School	France / China	-	-	-	18	197480	92	38	56,8352,479	39	36	43	31	52	960
	36	350	55	42	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	-	-	-	46	147515	41	22	93,0604,837	33	35	39	18	26	982
	37	330	35	35	BI Norwegian Business School	Norway	-	-	-	50* (16)	142,596 (224,006)	37 (102)	74	64,9781,360	34	36	32	30	28	805
	38	390	39	39	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	10	125,2435,292	9810	-	-	-	62	53,98810,233	53	-	14	36	45	911
	39	340	34	36	University of Strathclyde Business School	UK	29	91,8146,291	869	34	168153	76	68	52,3412,614	58	-	-	35	97	792
	39	350	38	37	NHH Norwegian School of Economics	Norway	-	-	-	48	133536	48	60	67,173371	39	21	42	26	33	972
	41	440	43	43	WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)	Austria	-	-	-	22	166841	47	12	67,6953,310	40	-	-	39	30	960
	42	410	42	42	Politecnico di Milano School of Management	Italy	38	74,3601,562	5815	53	120907	52	82	45,8693,135	52	38	40	37	10	792
	43	640	45	51	Kozminski University	Poland	-	-	-	38	184613	55	17	74,576	67	-	-	38	17	861
	44	420	45	44	HEC Lausanne	Switzerland	-	-	-	39	144057	40	22	71,0383,672	58	-	-	25	82	1000
	45	460	50	47	Neoma Business School	France	-	-	-	37	131602	51	34	58,300206	42	-	-	45	64	989
	46	600	60	55	Audencia Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	68,9571,093	51	40	25	48	48	861
	47	470	49	48	Durham University Business School	UK	18	104,30615	11843	-	-	-	56	55,3901,084	58	-	-	34	65	970
	48	450	48	47	Lancaster University Management School	UK	19	104,10610,114	956	-	-	-	50	46,5782,430	60	-	-	33	59	950
	49	420	44	45	Antwerp Management School	Belgium	-	-	-	43	161016	34	37	61,524360	44	-	-	32	37	980
	50	480	50	49	University of Edinburgh Business School	UK	20	113,42010,616	7912	-	-	-	54	59,4906,746	55	-	-	41	63	951
	51	380	41	43	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	Netherlands	-	-was 76,100	-was 58	-	-	-	52	66,9061,564	53	26	41	25	15	950
	52	570	64	58	St Petersburg University GSOM	Russia	-	-	-	52	128676	44	20	59,0851,150	69	-	-	53	4	944
	53	480	40	47	HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management	Germany	37	86,492176	621	-	-	-	27	94,8264,221	45	-	-	12	16	964
	54	500	52	52	Ashridge Executive Education at Hult	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	10	38	55	620
	55	510	47	51	Toulouse Business School	France / Spain / Morocco	-	-	-	49	115493	46	40	58,72089	38	-	-	47	48	933
	56	530	63	57	Rennes School of Business	France	-	-	-	44	104400	22	44	56,3321,643	37	-	-	36	92	921
	57	580	57	57	Skema Business School	France / China / US / Brazil	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	62,333145	50	-	38	43	48	9212
	58	560	53	56	Leeds University Business School	UK	25	100,04920,321	9216	-	-	-	67	45,0822,240	49	-	-	38	45	833
	59	550	58	57	University of Bath School of Management	UK	31	93,4617,363	665	-	-	-	58	50,5623,522	50	-	-	36	64	1000
	60	860	88	78	University of Economics, Prague	Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	68,85330,311	52	-	-	42	13	883
	61	530	56	57	Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management	Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	57	56,3712,120	48	31	-	28	27	962
	62	590	62	61	Porto Business School	Portugal	-	-	-	58	85505	34	-	-	-	34	36	29	7	10015
	63	800	-	-	ISCTE Business School	Portugal	-	-	-	57	85932	35	65	40,8061,068	51	41	-	47	9	1002
	64	610	59	61	Iéseg School of Management	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	57,2733,144	42	-	-	44	86	1000
	64	620	60	62	Maastricht University School of Business and Economics	Netherlands	-	-	-	-	-	-	30	68,8083,292	41	-	-	24	59	990
	66	650	67	66	Koç University Graduate School of Business	Turkey	-	-	-	31	218469	56	-	-	-	-	-	53	24	942
	67	710	75	71	Sabanci University School of Management	Turkey	-	-	-	51	175616	41	-	-	-	-	37	43	32	1000
	68	660	67	67	IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	42	55,0881,624	43	-	-	44	23	920
	69	670	67	68	Montpellier Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	43	50,827682	36	-	-	44	63	962
	69	710	65	68	Louvain School of Management	Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	44	63,5916,270	44	-	-	38	23	1000
	71	670	66	68	ICN Business School	France / Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	47	54,4931,830	41	-	-	50	53	902
	71	760	83	77	Warsaw School of Economics	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	48	49,2911,201	97	-	-	43	2	962
	73	700	67	70	Institut Mines-Télécom Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	49	58,2142,060	30	-	-	54	49	8914
	73	710	71	72	Essca School of Management	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	51	55,8392,382	36	-	-	39	57	986
	73	710	78	74	University of Cologne	Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	52	80,8584,178	38	-	-	22	9	1000
	76	-	-	-	Irish Management Institute	Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	29	41	11	31
	77	760	81	78	Hanken School of Economics	Finland	-	-	-	-	-	-	54	55,4423,670	43	-	-	35	16	931
	78	750	76	76	EM Normandie	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	59	50,053771	39	-	-	48	32	848
	79	-	-	-	Tum School of Management	Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	64	79,347	31	-	-	31	20	100
	79	820	83	81	EM Strasbourg Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	60	52,0782,526	39	-	-	60	25	770
	81	850	79	82	Burgundy School of Business	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	65	49,6411,765	38	-	-	43	41	816
	82	760	82	80	Corvinus University of Budapest	Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	69	51,4065,774	82	-	-	44	7	830
	83	-	-	-	University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics	Slovenia	-	-	-	-	-	-	70	36,659	44	-	-	49	4	82
	83	760	74	78	Université Paris-Dauphine	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	71	58,2501,265	26	-	-	41	22	922
	85	-	-	-	University of Liverpool Management School	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	73	42,743	98	-	-	41	51	89
	85	880	-	88	DCU Business School	Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	72	49,2423,229	44	-	-	47	19	773
	87	820	83	84	University of Bradford School of Management	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	75	48,5426,552	55	-	-	37	41	842
	88	930	-	-	Luiss University	Italy	-	-	-	-	-	-	76	49,0324,205	67	-	-	29	15	7122
	89	-	-	-	University of Antwerp Faculty of Business and Economics	Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	76	47,631	38	-	-	34	19	100
	89	860	87	87	University of Exeter Business School	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	78	51,2093,057	55	-	-	40	46	824
	91	820	-	-	Brunel Business School	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	79	44,58439	56	-	-	39	55	7916
	92	950	-	-	ISC Paris Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	80	55,1809,219	36	-	-	47	25	801
	93	810	76	83	La Rochelle Business School	France	-	-	-	-	-	-	81	51,262572	36	-	-	65	52	712
	94	900	-	93	Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	83	37,4103,588	55	-	-	39	63	8411
	95	920	-	-	Nottingham Business School at NTU	UK	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	35,2882,972	41	-	-	44	38	666
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Table notes# Figure in brackets refers to data from separate joint-programme for schools with more than one programme ranked. † Salary increase from graduation. ‡ Data are provided for information only. Most recently published data or data provided for a ranking are given * School was ranked outside the final ranking table in 2018. ** School participated in this ranking on the basis of a joint programme only. Underlying score based on proportion of total score. The heavier horizontal lines denote the pattern of clustering among the schools, based on significant differences in ranking scores. Around 200 points separate London Business School at the top from the school ranked number 95.The top 12 business schools from LBS to Warwick Business School form the top group. The second group is headed by University of Cambridge: Judge includes 68 schools. The remaining 15 schools in the third group are headed by Burgundy School of Business.

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1. Average MBA alumni salary three years after graduation, US$ by purchasing power parity (PPP). Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, where available.

2. Percentage increase in average alumni salary pre-MBA to today, three years after graduation. Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, if available.

3. # Figure in brackets refers to data from additional joint-programmes for schools with more than one ranked programme.

4. ‡ Data are provided for information only. Most recently published data are given.

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