Barcelona retains world’s top three executive training schools

One more exercise Barcelona maintain three business school in the ‘upper’ world executive education. The most prominent part is from open programs, with IESE in first place worldwidefrom the third place it happens to occupy in 2022, according to the rankings published this Monday by the ‘Financial Times’. Esadefor his part, also moved up one position and stood on the third and Eada from 25 to 16. Another Spanish business school, IE Business School, Based in Madrid, rises from 17th in 2022 to 10th.


In the custom made program Of these, the three Barcelona-based institutions are inferior, but they also continue to rank highly in this ranking. IESE dropped from third to fourth; Esade, from eighth to number 12; and Eada, on the other hand, rose from 55 to 47.

If a combination of two categories is made, IESE ranks second in the world in executive trainingEsade, fourth and Eada, number 25. Thus, with the combination of the two specialties, the leader is HEC Parisfollowed by IESE, On the contraryEsad and London School of Business Economicsin the first five positions of this ranking.

Since 2015, IESE’s executive training programs have ranked 1st or 2nd worldwide in this ranking. This year, the ‘Financial Times’ highlighted the satisfaction of participants in this business school belonging to the University of Navarra, the relevance of the program, the internationality and the quality of its teaching staff and participants. Two other business schools have also been part of this global ranking for some time.


Different analysis

The new classification of ‘Financial Times’ is the result of a different analysis carried out on two categories of programs: open programs (‘Open Programs’) and customized programs (‘Custom Programs’). Classification assesses various aspects such as faculties, academic methods, diversity of participants or facilitiesamong others.

The rankings are based on survey responses from bespoke program clients and open program participants, combined with data provided by the business schools themselves through a number of different criteria.

Following IESE in the open program are HEC in Paris, followed by Esade, also French Insead and Oxford said, in England. In the special programs segment, the first is Duke, from the US, followed by On the contrary, hc from paris, IESE And ESMT Berlinaccording to the classification of British newspapers.

In the first assessment, joseph franchdirector of Esade Executive Education, insists that “Esade’s consolidation as the fourth best school in the world for executive education” means “recognizing the excellence and quality” of its programs.


For his part, Jordy Diazdean of Eada Business School, pointed out that “when all indicators point to continuous training As an essential element to staying active and employable, recognition for excellence helps us to keep working.”

Roderick Gilbert

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