The ESSEC & MANNHEIM Executive MBA Claims a Position among the 30 Best Programs Worldwide in the Ranking of the Financial Times

• Mannheim Business School and the French ESSEC improve by 5 places on last year and come in 26th with their joint Executive MBA program
• Among the top ten in the categories of "Career Progress" and "International Course Experience"

Mannheim Business School continues its advance internationally: The ESSEC & MANNHEIM Executive MBA has placed 26th worldwide, an improvement of 5 points compared to last year, according to the ranking of the Financial Times (FT). This change leaves a large number of renowned MBA providers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia trailing behind. The part-time MBA, which is offered together with the French elite business school ESSEC for managers with at least five years of professional work experience, claimed top-ten places as well. It came in 4th in the category of "Career Progress" and in 8th place in "International Course Experience". In addition, according to the Financial Times the program has one of the world's highest shares of international resident students.

The FT ranking is considered the most comprehensive and most important for general management programs of study. Its primary assessment criteria are salary and career information of graduates as well as structure, internationality, and research achievements of the institutions.

"The achievement is pleasing and confirms that we have in the ESSEC & MANNHEIM Executive MBA a program which fulfills the highest international standards. However, our program also has its very own appealing profile thanks to its structure and study elements such as the individual and group coaching, and its team projects," says Professor Dr. Jens Wüstemann, Academic Director of the ESSEC & MANNHEIM Modular Executive MBA. Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christian Homburg, President of Mannheim Business School, emphasizes the following: "Our declared strategic goal is to belong to the best ten European and best forty worldwide providers of MBA programs by 2010. In the recent rankings we have already met both of these goals. We know, however, that in this hotly contested market we have to put in considerable effort to keep this position and to develop it."