About 80 per cent of MBA programmes launched over the past 10 years have been introduced outside the US, reflecting the increasing globalisation of the business education market, a study has found.

Of the 3,710 graduate management programmes introduced in that time, more than 1,500 have been at European business schools and 1,449 at schools in Asia, South America, Australia and Africa. The figures in-clude programmes launched with US schools as partners.