Emba Rankings - London Business School

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London Business School's flagship is its 15-21 month Master of Business Administration degree. MBA students take a prescribed set of core courses, then choose electives from a choice of 70. Class size has been around 400 students in every annual cohort, with a total of 800 students on the 15-21 month MBA. These are broken into five streams of around 80 students which undertake all core courses together.

The school is proud of the diversity of the student body and the 2008 intake - graduating in 2010 - consisted of 320 students from 60 nations with 25 per cent female and only 9 per cent from the UK (20 per cent from North America). Beyond academic teaching, the school puts an emphasis on personal development, particularly in terms of leadership and global awareness, thanks to specific workshops led by external consultants.

In addition to a range of elective courses at the London Business School, the school has a very wide network of around 32 exchange schools around the world. Each academic year around 100 London Business School students spend a term at another leading business school. London Business School's ...
... diverse graduates come from 130 different countries and from a wide range of professional backgrounds. After the completion of the MBA programme, graduates accept top positions with major recruiters across Industry, Finance and Consulting sectors all around the world. The School offers four part time Executive MBA degrees, which are completed in between 16 and 20 months.

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At an academic level, the School offers the same degree to both Executive and Full-time MBA students. The programmes involve very similar core courses to the full time MBA, international field work and a wide range of elective courses. The course ends with a capstone together with company project or management report. The quality and student experience of London Business School’s full-time MBA programme has again been recognised, in the Financial Times’ annual global ranking. The School’s programme ranked fourth in the Global MBA Rankings 2012, in the top five with Stanford (1), Harvard (2), Wharton (3) and Columbia (5). The rankings are calculated from data going back three years.