Oxford Saïd’s Executive MBA has been rated number 12 in the world in the prestigious Financial Times business school rankings.
The Financial Times' annual Executive MBA rankings have listed the Oxford Executive MBA (EMBA) as 12th out of 100 schools globally, representing a significant move upwards from the previous year’s ranking of 18th place. The School ranked first in the UK for single-school programmes and sixth globally in this category.
Sue Dopson, Interim Dean and Professor of Organisational Behaviour, commented on the School's position: 'We are always immensely proud of our students’ achievements. This year’s rise in ranking in particular reflects our alumni’s career success. Additionally, it means that the positive benefit and advancement to their careers of having undertaken our EMBA programme is tangible.'
Results in the career progress categories, which collectively account for 55% of the overall weighting, have been positive with the Oxford EMBA rising in four of the five criteria, most notably:
- Salary percentage increase rise of 20% and six places to 11th
- Career progress rise of 12 places to 12th
- Work experience (a measure of pre-EMBA career achievement) rise of three places
The School has also seen its position for ESG criteria, which focus on the proportion of core courses covering environmental, social and governance issues, rise by seven places to 24th. We maintained a high level of international students, bringing important diversity to our EMBA experience, which the results reflected.
In previous years we acknowledged more needed to be done to achieve greater gender balance across our community. We will continue to focus on gender parity in our student cohorts and diversity in our faculty, which saw a small drop in the percentage of female faculty members.