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Methodology: How we rank executive education programs
| OPEN ENROLLMENT | CUSTOMIZED CURRICULUM | ||||||||||
| 2009 Rank | 2007 Rank | Provider/Location | Open Programs Offered | General Mgmt | Leadership | Strategy | 2009 Rank | 2007 Rank | Provider/Location | Custom Programs Offered | |
| 1 | 1 | Harvard Boston |
61 | A+ | A | A+ | 1 | 1 | Duke Corporate Education Durham, N.C. |
130 | |
| 2 | 2 | INSEAD France/Singapore |
40 | A+ | A+ | A+ | 2 | 3 | INSEAD France/Singapore |
130 | |
| 3 | 4 | Stanford Stanford, Calif. |
23 | B | B | B | 3 | 8 | Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro, N.C. |
422 | |
| 4 | 3 | IMD Lausanne, Switzerland |
NA | A | A+ | A+ | 4 | 10 | ESADE Barcelona |
99 | |
| 5 | NR | Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro, N.C. |
12 | B | A+ | C | 5 | 2 | IMD Lausanne, Switzerland |
120 | |
| 6 | 6 | London Business School London |
32 | A | A | A | 6 | 4 | Harvard Boston |
42 | |
| 7 | 8 | Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia |
56 | A+ | A+ | A+ | 7 | 12 | IESE Barcelona |
178 | |
| 8 | 7 | Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor |
45 | A | A | B | 8 | 13 | IE Business School Madrid |
98 | |
| 9 | 12 | IESE Barcelona |
151 | A+ | A | A+ | 9 | 11 | Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia |
126 | |
| 10 | 13 | MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, Mass. |
22 | C | C | A | 10 | 18 | Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor |
19 | |
| 11 | 14 | ESADE Barcelona |
57 | A+ | A+ | A+ | 11 | NR | Babson (Olin) Babson Park, Mass. |
72 | |
| 12 | 5 | Columbia New York |
30 | A | B | A | 12 | 5 | London Business School London |
119 | |
| 13 | 18 | Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, Ill. |
63 | B | C | B | 13 | 9 | Thunderbird Glendale, Ariz. |
137 | |
| 14 | 16 | IE Business School Madrid |
117 | A+ | A+ | A+ | 14 | 16 | MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, Mass. |
19 | |
| 15 | 9 | Chicago (Booth) Chicago |
28 | C | NA | B | 15 | 20 | UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, N.C. |
40 | |
| 16 | 10 | Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville |
21 | B | B | B | 16 | NR | Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, Ill. |
62 | |
| 17 | NR | Ashridge Business School Berkhamsted, England |
30 | A | A | A | 17 | 14 | Stanford Stanford, Calif. |
22 | |
| 18 | 11 | Duke (Fuqua) Durham, N.C. |
8 | NA | C | C | 18 | NR | Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville |
43 | |
| 19 | NR | Queen's Kinston, Ont. |
20 | A | B | B | 19 | 15 | Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, Ind. |
22 | |
| 20 | 17 | Thunderbird Glendale, Ariz. |
60 | C | C | C | 20 | 7 | Columbia New York |
24 | |
Methodology Note: Rankings were determined by the results of an online survey BusinessWeek sent to 809 companies; 188 responded (23%). Companies indicated familiarity with both university and private-sector providers and ranked them in order of best programs overall for both custom programs, designed for specific clients, and open enrollment programs, which are open to all companies. A No. 1 ranking was assigned 10 points, No. 2 nine points, etc. To compute the ranking, the total score for a school/provider was multiplied by the number of companies ranking it and divided by the number of companies that indicated familiarity. Letter grades are based on the average of all responses in each of the categories. Since the categories represent only a portion of the total company survey, highly ranked programs can have low letter grades while lower-ranked programs can have high letter grades. In each category, the top 20% earned an A+, the next 25% received As, the next 35% were awarded Bs, and the bottom 20% got Cs. NR=not ranked; NA=not available. For more on our methodology visit our FAQ online at http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/faq/index.html.
Data: Cambria Consulting, BusinessWeek
