HEC Paris has taken the top spot in the FT’s European Business School Rankings 2019, beating London Business School, the winner of the last two years.
A total of 95 European institutions were judged as part of the composite rankings on overall performance across their MBAs, Executive MBAs, master’s in Management and Executive Education programs.
“It is the hallmark of major world-renowned institutions to have this dual positioning”
This year was the 16th annual Financial Times ranking of European business schools.
“Historically, HEC Paris has played a leading role in making the Master in Management a flagship program in Business education,” said Eloïc Peyrache, dean of programs at HEC Paris.
“The greatest strength of the school… is being a leader in its entire range of programs at the same time, whether it is Executive Education, the MBA or the EMBA. HEC is equally a leader in its production of research.
“It is the hallmark of major world-renowned institutions to have this dual positioning. This ranking, which is the result of an enormous amount of work by our teams and our faculty, is an important recognition of this,” he added.
French and UK universities dominated in the rankings, taking 12 of the top 20 spots. Overall there were 26 French schools and 21 UK schools included.
The result is not the first success for HEC this year. The school moved five points up in the “FT’s 2019 Executive MBA Ranking – top 20 programs” since it debuted in 2018.
The FT published an article to explain its methodology for the rankings. A European school rank is calculated after removing non-European schools for each of these main rankings.
MBA, EMBA and MiM account for 25% each of each school’s total performance. For executive education, the scores obtained for customised and open programs each account for 12.5 %.
