Executive MBA Ranking 2022: rising in east Asia
Business schools in east Asia have strengthened their positions as leading global providers of executive MBAs in the 2022 FT EMBA ranking, despite pandemic and political disruptions.
Three programmes based in the region took the top spots: in order, Kellogg-HKUST in Hong Kong, Ceibs in Shanghai and the Tsinghua-Insead EMBA spanning China and Singapore. Two are run with international partners, while Ceibs has joint European governance and makes frequent use of visiting faculty.
A further four schools in the top tier of 11 have bases in Hong Kong, China or Singapore: Chicago Booth, Washington University: Olin, Trium’s New York University and UCLA Anderson with the National University of Singapore.
However, there is uncertainty over the provision of business education for foreign students in east Asia, against a backdrop of coronavirus lockdowns and continuing restrictions on movement, as well as rising geopolitical and trade tensions. There are similar questions around EMBAs from schools in Russia, isolated by its war against Ukraine.
The 2022 ranking comes at a time of changing demands from students and faculty, both for the contents of courses and the way they are taught. The FT’s methodology is based on data provided by business schools and by their alumni three years after completing their programmes.
The ranking takes into account factors including salaries, assessments of career services, aims achieved and the quality of academic research, as well as the gender balance and international diversity of students and faculty.
Prof Ding Yuan, dean of Ceibs, which was founded by the Chinese government and the European Union, says that while demand for its Chinese-language EMBA remained high among domestic students, he has temporarily stopped marketing the global degree to international candidates, given quarantines and visa restrictions.
The top two schools in the FT ranking also reported the highest alumni salaries, led by Kellogg-HKUST at $584,197, adjusted for international purchasing power parity. Yale School of Management in the US came top in assessments of aims achieved, followed by Iese Business School in Spain and the University of St Gallen in Switzerland.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Andrew Jack
