Switzerland’s University of St Gallen has retained the number 1 rank for the seventh successive year in the FT Masters in Management 2017 Rankings.
HEC Paris retains the second spot but Essec Business School gets pushed down to the 5th rank by IE Business School that was in the 7th place in 2016.
The 2017 FT ranking features 95 programs, up from 90 last year. The London Business School (LBS) is ranked 4th, moving up two places from the 6th rank it held in 2016 exchanging places with ESCP Europe.
WHU Belsheim moves to 7th rank from its 9th place in 2016. ESADE Business School also moves up to 8th rank from the 9th position in the previous year.
Ninth-ranked Cems is an international program provided through a network of 30 business schools, down five places from 2015, when it was last ranked. Bocconi is at 10, moving up one place from the 11th spot in 2016.
Meanwhile, FT announced that from this year’s rankings, it has changed its methodology and started collecting information about alumni’s first jobs after graduation. These data are used in conjunction with information about their current jobs, three years later. It enables FT to calculate their salary increase since graduation as well as their career progress.
This year’s ranking gains for 24 programs at British Schools. Across the English Channel, the French notched up only 18. In effect, while a third of British schools rise five places, two-thirds of French schools drop five or more places.
The first placed St Gallen notched up good scores in the international criteria with more than 90% of the students and 80% of the faculty coming from other countries. It is ranked second for international exposure and mobility of the students during the program.
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Meanwhile, alumni from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad managed to draw the highest salary of $116,476 followed by IIM Bangalore at $116,094 with Gallen on the third spot in the category at $114,449.
However, all the Indian institutions slipped in the rankings when compared to the previous year. IIM Ahmedabad was ranked 21, five points down from 16 in 2016. IIM Bangalore fell from the 19th rank in 2016 to 26 this year. IIM Calcutta was ranked 28, falling five places from its 23rd rank in the previous year.
Among the new entrants, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management at 41 was the highest ranked. The German school has one of the most gender-balanced programs, with women accounting for 49% of students
