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 education and learning companies, as company schools request to restructure while bracing for a sharp drop in demand from customers in the wake of coronavirus.

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

The lockdown is not only impacting revenues. It is also forcing company schools to rethink what courses they give, the way they teach management competencies, and how to stability limited-phrase online instruction in the course of lockdowns with longstanding demand from customers for in-human being tuition on campus or at clients’ premises.

International revenues from the company university-based mostly executive education and learning marketplace ended up close to $2bn in 2019 and ended up on an upward curve right before Covid-19 strike. But far more than half the foremost companies forecast sharp falls in executive education and learning profits this calendar year, in accordance to an examination by Unicon, a consortium of 113 schools.

In a the latest poll of its members, fifty one per cent reported coronavirus was already having a substantial effect on revenues and only 4 per cent reported it experienced no effect.

The executive education and learning marketplace was evolving even right before Covid-19, in accordance to the FT’s examination of pre-pandemic facts. It showed improved rated schools ended up increasing the sum of online teaching to provide learners with minimal time to spare for examine. The lockdown has considering that forced far more company schools to swap to online teaching as shoppers terminate limited courses.

Gael Fouillard, executive education and learning director at Grenoble Ecole de Administration, reported profits from his courses was set to tumble twenty five per cent. “We are nonetheless hoping to keep the activity of our open up programmes close to that if 2019. In phrases of custom made programmes, the lockdown has merely stopped the activity for at least two or three months and possibly far more.”

UC Berkeley Govt Instruction was projected to convey in $35m this calendar year, teaching five,five hundred people today. The lockdown of the campus, a limited length from San Francisco town centre, suggests the university will have to “re-evaluate those people forecasts”, reported Mike Rielly, main executive. “It has been a fantastic 4 several years [considering that 2016], when we have far more than doubled the effect in phrases of profits and student figures. We want that to continue on.”

This provides its own challenges, in accordance to Mike Malefakis, affiliate vice-dean of Wharton Govt Instruction, 1 of the premier companies of in-human being and online executive education and learning globally. He reported he experienced adapted in part by developing new management programmes explicitly aimed at teaching how to deal with in the course of a pandemic.

“That can take a substantial sum of co-ordination and operate, but we are blessed to have in depth experience delivering online programmes . . . for the earlier 5 several years,” he reported.