IE Business School No. 5 in Europe in QS ranking of Executive MBA programs

This result further consolidates IE Business School’s reputation as an international benchmark for management education, having achieved the No. 1 position worldwide in the Financial Times Ranking of Online MBA programs (March 2016) and recognition by FT as the Top School in Europe for MBAs for Entrepreneurs (June 2016).

The QS Global 100 EMBA team evaluated IE Business School’s Global Executive MBA, an English-taught program aimed at senior executives with an international profile. The program runs for 15 months and combines onsite sessions held in Madrid, Singapore, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo, with online modules. The Global Executive MBA has a marked focus on international management and is run jointly with academic partners that include Insper (Brazil), UCLA (US) and Singapore Management University (Singapore). The program is taught by an international faculty and features a continuous innovation component designed to meet market needs. The student body of the program comprises 98% international students from 27 countries and with an average of 14 years’ management experience. Global Executive MBA students combine their learning experience with their work in top-tier management positions.

“At IE Business School we are very committed to programs for members of senior management teams around the world and to equipping them to meet the challenges posed by a global market in continuous change,” says Ignacio Gafo, Vice Dean of Global & Executive MBA programs at IE Business School. “We shape leaders with a clear capacity for innovation, placing a special focus on technology, an entrepreneurial mindset, critical thought and a solid academic base. We offer blended programs that include onsite, online and experiential formats. This year, 98% of the student body of our Global Executive MBA are from overseas, coming from a total of 27 countries. They are able to undertake their studies while continuing to work in senior management positions thanks to the blended format that combines online periods with onsite sessions held in  the US, Brazil, Singapore and Spain.”

In this year’s edition of its ranking QS evaluated a series of indicators for executive MBA programs which include a reputation for thought leadership research, reputation for employability, diversity of the faculty and student body, executive profile of the class, and career outcomes of the program.

IE Business School has an extensive portfolio of Spanish and English-taught executive MBA programs run in both onsite and blended formats. These programs include the IE Brown Executive MBA, run jointly with the Ivy League’s Brown University, recognized for its excellence in humanistic, social and scientific disciplines. The IE Brown Executive MBA combines online periods with face-to-face sessions delivered at IE’s Madrid campus and Brown’s campus in Providence (US), coupled with a residential period in Cape Town (South Africa).