Today the Financial Times publishes its 11th annual special report on Business Education and MBA’s, listing the top global masters of business administration degrees and naming the top 100 schools in the world. It is available in today’s edition of the Financial Times and also on FT.com at: http://www.ft.com/businesseducation.

“Though most business schools plead innocence over the crisis, they acknowledge the perception that their MBA graduates are seen as part of the problem” writes Della Bradshaw, the FT’s business education editor.

The top ten full-time global MBA programmes are as follows:

1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton

1. London Business School

3. Harvard Business School

4. Columbia Business School

5. Insead

6. Stanford University GSB

6. IE Business School

8. Ceibs

9. MIT: Sloan

10. New York University: Stern

Also featured in the FT’s special report:

• Flexibility is crucial in a difficult job market – Linda Anderson finds that the outlook is gloomy but not hopeless

• Sarah Murray on the varied uses and successes of new media in attracting students

• Rebecca Knight talks to Robert Joss, the veteran head of Stanford Business School

• Andrew Baxter on the high-flying programme offered by the World Economic Forum

• Tables of the top 100 full-time global MBA rankings and the top full-time US, Canadian, Asia-Pacific and European MBA programmes.

The FT compiles its MBA league tables by looking at salaries, employment, entrepreneurship, size of company MBA graduates join, job title before and after undertaking MBA course and students’ school evaluation.

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