The Financial Times carried out a survey on executive MBA (EMBA) programs at the end of 2001. Inviting 72 business schools to take part in the survey they published the top 50 schools in November 2001. The rankings of the top 50 schools are shown below.
1 Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) USA
2 Columbia GSB USA
3 London Business School UK
4 Stern (New York University) USA
5 Chicago USA
6 Kellogg (Northwestern University) USA
7 Instituto de Empresa Spain
8 IESE Spain
9 Goizuetta (Emory University) USA
10 City University Business School UK
11 Imperial College UK
12 Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles) USA
13 Australian Graduate School of Management Australia
14 Warwick Business School UK
15 Ivey (University of Western Ontario) Canada
16 Marshall (University of Southern California) USA
17 Krannert (Purdue University) USA
18 Chinese University of Hong Kong China
19 Simon (University of Rochester) USA
20 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign USA
21 Fuqua (Duke University) USA
22 McDonough (Georgetown University) USA
23 Broad (Michigan State) USA
24 Smurfitt (University College Dublin) Ireland
25 Kenan-Flagler (University of North Carolina) USA
26 Thunderbird USA
27 Boston USA
28 University of Wisconsin-Madison USA
29 CEIBS China
30 Mendoza (University of Notre Dame) USA
31 Baylor USA
32 Temple USA
33 Cranfield UK
34 Weatherhead (Case Western) USA
35 Olin (Washington University) USA
36 Cox (Southern Methodist University) USA
37 ESSEC France
38 Queen's School of Business Canada
39 Babcock (Wake Forest University) USA
40 Rotterdam School of Management Netherlands
41 University of Texas at Austin USA
42 Bath School of Management UK
43 Ashridge UK
44 Molson (Concordia University) Canada
45 Strathclyde School of Business UK
46 Freeman (Tulane University) USA
47 Bradford University (Incl NIMBAS) UK, Netherlands, etc
47 NIMBAS Netherlands
48 Henley UK
49 Stockholm School of Economics Sweden
50 IPADE Mexico