The ranking of the "Financial Times", in London, draws up each year the prize list of the best European training courses in management.
This prestigious ranking is eagerly awaited by school principals but also by students who want to obtain an internationally recognized diploma (ranking based in particular on salary.
For the fourth consecutive year, HEC Paris is at the top of the "FT's 2022 European Business Schools Ranking" unveiled this Sunday, December 4 by the English newspaper.
In total, four "made in France" schools are in the Top 10: proof of a great French dynamic.
The London Business School remains in second position just ahead of ESCP and its 6 campuses in Europe, followed by the SDA Bocconi school in Italy and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
ESCP achieved a great breakthrough this year, gaining 11 places and thus positioning itself in 2nd place in France ahead of INSEAD, ESSEC and EDHEC.
The ranking of the Top 20 of the Ranking
Also noteworthy as developments: the emlyon gains 7 places and arrives at the 12th position in Europe.
INSEAD recorded one of the biggest falls this year (-12 on a European scale), when it had been 2nd in the ranking for 2 years.
We then find Audencia (38th), KEDGE (39th), GEM (40th) and NEOMA (41st) at the end of the ranking among the top 50 of the European ranking.
Note also the very good performance of Rennes School of Business, which is in 57th place in the ranking and has achieved the best progress over the year, with 31 ranks gained compared to last year.
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The impact of the Russian conflict and Covid on European business schools
This ranking compares 95 schools across Europe, including 24 in France, 18 in the UK, 8 in Germany.
Three schools in Russia, two in Turkey and one in Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
The data for the ranking comes in particular from 5 other rankings already published by the FT (Best MBA, EMBA, Master in management, Executives programmes, etc.) by analyzing, for example, the salaries of graduates, their career development, the quality of the international experience. courses, but also research programs.
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This ranking also highlights the attractiveness of European business schools: the schools and universities are recognized worldwide for the quality of their teaching in the liberal tradition and openness to new challenges such as the preservation of the planet.
But the ranking also evokes the difficulties of the Schools in Europe: in addition to the conflict in Ukraine which completely freezes the exchanges of students or teachers between universities with certain countries of Eastern Europe and Russia... The fears of the Covid are still not gone.
After two years of Covid, according to a study conducted by the GMAT competition,
the companies that most often pay for the diplomas of students from these grandes écoles are still reluctant to send their employees to Europe for fear that the Covid will return to block their employees abroad.
Some companies having difficulty recruiting prefer to retain their employees as much as possible within their office rather than seeing them leave for training far from home.
