E&M Executive MBA Scores Well in the World-Wide Financial Times Rankings

"Career turbo" with High Levels of Participant Satisfaction: ESSEC & MANNHEIM Executive MBA Scores Well in the World-Wide Financial Times Rankings

The Mannheim Business School has been included in an international ranking for the first time. In the list of the best Executive MBA programs in the world published of the Financial Times (FT), the "ESSEC & MANNHEIM Executive MBA" was awarded place 31, beating a large number of institutions established for many years on the international market from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The program that the Mannheim Business School is offering together with the French business school ESSEC for managers with five to fifteen years of professional experience, did particularly well, especially in two categories: the program takes third place in the area of the "career progress made by former participants", and comes in at number ten in the area of course participant satisfaction, which is measured through the attainment of personal career goals.

The FT ranking is widely acknowledged as being one of the most comprehensive top indexes for MBA programs and Business Schools. It's key appraisal factors are based on the career progress of previous participants as well as the structure, internationality and research achievements of the business schools. The positions confirm the good results of the Mannheim Business School in the European Business School Rankings that appeared in karriere magazine in July 2006. The publication issued by the prestigious German Handelsblatt Publishing Group listed Mannheim as the ninth best in Europe which makes Mannheim the best institution in Germany by a long way.

"This result is without doubt a milestone in the development of our business school", explains Professor Dr. Otto H Jacobs, Managing Director of the Mannheim Business School gGmbH. "Our declared strategic goal is to belong to the top ten business schools in Europe and to be in the world-wide top 40 by the year 2010. With the results from the rankings in karriere and the Financial Times, we have already fulfilled both. However, we also know that in a hard fought market, considerable effort will be required to keep and build on our position", summarizes Professor Jacobs.