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Fortuna Admissions Ranking of MBA Rankings 2011 – European Business Schools

Fortuna Admissions has compiled the results of the major media MBA rankings of the last 12 months to produce the Fortuna Ranking of MBA Rankings 2011.

How did the top business schools in Europe perform when you combined the results from 12 months of media rankings?

Fortuna Admissions Ranking of MBA Rankings 2011 - European Business Schools, Fortuna Ranking of MBA Rankings 2011
Fortuna Admissions Ranking of MBA Rankings 2011 - European Business Schools, Fortuna Ranking of MBA Rankings 2011

 

Methodology

Very few of the European business schools are ranked by four of the major media rankings. BusinessWeek assesses only a limited number of non-U.S. business schools, and Forbes produces two separate lists, both very short, for one year and two year programmes. US News does not consider business schools from Europe at all.

Fortuna Admissions has calculated overall performance by looking at each ranking position compared to other European schools. In the case of the FT and Economist rankings, if a European business school ranked #41 in the overall FT ranking and #33 in the overall Economist ranking, but among European business schools was #14 in the FT and #10 in The Economist, then the relative European regional figure was used for the calculation, and added where appropriate to those of BusinessWeek and Forbes, before dividing the results by the number of rankings in which they appear to achieve an average score.

The idea of the Fortuna Ranking of MBA Rankings is to compare the performance of schools in multiple rankings, and therefore does not include the many good European business schools that appear in fewer than two rankings. This means that, for example, Imperial College in London – an outstanding business school as recognised by it’s position at #37 in the Financial Times ranking – has not been included for 2011.

Candidates should remember that this is not scientific approach, and there is no attempt to weight any one ranking greater than the others. As stated before, each ranking uses a different methodology and measures different things with the inherent limitations of each assessment, so doing particularly well in one ranking and less well in another is reflected in the overall average score.

 

Matt Symonds is Co-founder and Director of Fortuna Admissions, and bestselling author of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge, sponsored by McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, BCG and Bain.

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