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Two Barcelona business schools keep their ranking in Europe’s top twelve

The Financial Times annual ranking lists Europe’s top 100 business schools, with this year’s list again featuring three in Barcelona: IESE, Esade and EADA.

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17/01/2025 - 12:45 h

Barcelona continues to attract prestige and international recognition for its business education. IESE Business School ranked as the fourth best business school in Europe, according to the Financial Times. The ranking puts IESE ahead of institutions such as the ESCP Business School (France), the SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy) and the Edhec Business School (France).

The final ranking is the result of the average of more specific classifications published by the magazine. In these sub-rankings, IESE occupies second place for its programmes in Executive Education (Open and Custom programmes), as well as second place in the list of the best EMBA and third place in the best MBA for Europe.

Going back to the general ranking, Barcelona also stands out in the top 15 thanks to the Esade Business School, which ranks in twelfth place for the second year in a row. Esade also ranked second (together with IESE) in the list for the best Executive Education Open Programmes.

For its part, the EADA Business School remains on the list, on this occasion in position 27, three places higher than in the 2023 ranking.

The final ranking is headed by France, with INSEAD Business School and HEC Paris in first and second position, followed by the UK’s London Business School in third place. The top 10 includes another Spanish school based in Madrid, the IE Business School, which this year ranked tenth.

The full rankings can be found on the Financial Times website.