The ESADE-Georgetown Global Executive MBA has been ranked 12th worldwide in the Ranking of Executive MBA Programmes, recently published for the first time by The Economist.
Launched jointly by ESADE and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2008, the GEMBA has also been ranked fifth in the world among Executive MBAs taught in alliance with another institution, and first in the world in terms of cross-disciplinary dual degrees (business and foreign relations).
The results reflect the GEMBA’s highly international design. The programme is taught on four continents and is characterised by its participants’ high level of experience and international mobility.
The Economist’s ranking measures business schools on two broad categories of criteria: personal development/education experience and career development. Within these categories, the newspaper looked at 27 specific criteria, including the quality and diversity of the students, the quality of the faculty, the percentage of students who receive a promotion after they graduate and the average salary increase graduates can expect.
The data are a mixture of student-reported figures, student ratings and data provided by the schools.
About the GEMBA
The Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA programme combines the interdisciplinary teaching strengths of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and Walsh School of Foreign Service with ESADE’s strengths in entrepreneurship and social innovation.
To foster a global outlook, GEMBA students are immersed in the business culture of each location on the programme’s six-module itinerary: Washington, D.C.; Barcelona and Madrid; São Paulo and Buenos Aires; Bangalore; Shanghai and Beijing; and New York.
The Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA mirrors the complexity of the global business environment by integrating and packaging multi-disciplinary information within modules; incorporating participants’ diversity of experience into classroom discussions; using residencies as opportunities to extend and apply new skills and capabilities; and incorporating international perspectives in every aspect of the programme.
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