The Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking is a composite ranking based on the combined performance of Europe’s leading schools across the five main rankings of programmes published by the FT in 2020: MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Management (MiM) and the two rankings of non-degree executive education programmes. A European school rank is calculated after removing non-European schools for each of these main rankings.

MBA, EMBA and MiM account for 25 per cent each of each school’s total performance. For executive education, the scores obtained for customised and open programmes each account for 12.5 per cent. The ranking measures the schools’ quality and breadth of programmes. This year, quality has been given greater emphasis so that schools offering high-quality training but not providing all the different courses considered can still perform strongly overall. An indexed score is created for each ranking. These scores are then added together, according to the weighting above, creating a combined total for each school, which comprises one-third of the final score. The remaining two-thirds is an average score, derived by dividing the total score for each school by the number of rankings in which it features.

MBA

European rank (25%) - Position among European schools that took part in the 2020 FT global MBA ranking.

Salary today $: average alumni salary three years after graduation, US$ by purchasing power parity (PPP). Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, where available.

Salary increase %: average difference in alumni salary pre-MBA to today, three years after graduation.

EMBA

European rank (25%) - Position among European schools that took part in the 2020 EMBA ranking.

Salary today $: average three years after graduation, US$ PPP. Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, where available.

Salary increase %: average difference in alumni salary pre-EMBA to today, three years after graduation.

MASTERS IN MANAGEMENT

European rank (25%) - Position among European schools that participated in 2020 FT MiM ranking.

Salary today $: average salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP. Includes weighted data from the current and two previous years, where available.

Salary increase %: average difference in alumni salary between graduation and today, three years on.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Open programmes (12.5%)

Position among European schools that participated in the FT ranking of open-enrolment programmes in 2020.

Custom programmes (12.5%)

Position among European schools that participated in the FT ranking of customised programmes in 2020.