FT executive education rankings 2020: the top business schools

IMD in Switzerland and Iese in Spain have topped the FT’s twin rankings of executive schooling vendors, as enterprise educational facilities seek out to restructure even though bracing for a sharp decline in demand in the wake of coronavirus.

IMD is top of the 2020 open-enrolment programme rating and Iese heads the rating of customised programmes.

The lockdown is not only affecting revenues. It is also forcing enterprise educational facilities to rethink what courses they present, the way they educate leadership techniques, and how to stability small-term on-line schooling during lockdowns with longstanding demand for in-person tuition on campus or at clients’ premises.

World revenues from the enterprise university-based executive schooling sector have been shut to $2bn in 2019 and have been on an upward curve in advance of Covid-19 strike. But extra than half the leading vendors forecast sharp falls in executive schooling income this calendar year, according to an evaluation by Unicon, a consortium of 113 educational facilities.

In a modern poll of its associates, fifty one for each cent stated coronavirus was by now obtaining a major affect on revenues and only 4 for each cent stated it had no affect.

The executive schooling sector was evolving even in advance of Covid-19, according to the FT’s evaluation of pre-pandemic details. It confirmed greater ranked educational facilities have been increasing the quantity of on-line educating to serve learners with minimal time to spare for examine. The lockdown has since pressured extra enterprise educational facilities to change to on-line educating as consumers cancel small courses.

Gael Fouillard, executive schooling director at Grenoble Ecole de Administration, stated income from his courses was established to slide twenty five for each cent. “We are nevertheless hoping to sustain the action of our open programmes shut to that if 2019. In phrases of personalized programmes, the lockdown has only stopped the action for at minimum two or 3 months and perhaps extra.”

UC Berkeley Executive Education and learning was projected to carry in $35m this calendar year, educating five,five hundred people. The lockdown of the campus, a small length from San Francisco town centre, means the university will have to “re-evaluate those forecasts”, stated Mike Rielly, main executive. “It has been a superb 4 a long time [since 2016], when we have extra than doubled the affect in phrases of income and university student numbers. We want that to proceed.”

This brings its possess problems, according to Mike Malefakis, associate vice-dean of Wharton Executive Education and learning, one particular of the biggest vendors of in-person and on-line executive schooling globally. He stated he had tailored in part by acquiring new leadership programmes explicitly aimed at educating how to regulate during a pandemic.

“That normally takes a considerable quantity of co-ordination and function, but we are fortunate to have in depth expertise offering on-line programmes . . . for the previous five a long time,” he stated.