The executive education rankings decoded

The annual Financial Times report on non-degree executive education programmes, now in its 12th year, includes three business school rankings: first, schools that offer open-enrolment programmes; second, providers of customised programmes; and last, a combined ranking. Open programmes are available to employees from any company or organisation. Those ranked here run for at least three days. Customised programmes are tailor-made for organisations that want to offer specific training to their employees.
This year, 65 schools are ranked in the open-enrolment group and 65 in the group for customised programmes. To be eligible, a school must have had income of at least $2m from the programme type during the previous year.
The customised ranking is compiled using data from two sets of online surveys – one for schools, another for clients. The client survey is distributed in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Business schools are asked for details of a number of top clients, who are then invited to complete an online survey about the school that nominated them. More... See also: Ask the experts: Executive Education 2011.