A quick glance at the 2008 Masters in Management rankings table might lead some to conclude plus ça change: HEC Paris’ master programme claims the top spot for the fourth consecutive year, at the head of a field dominated by French business schools – just over a third of the programmes ranked are French, including six in the top 10. Yet this brief analysis does not capture the full picture.
For one thing, the 2008 ranking contains 50 masters programmes, double the number included in the inaugural 2005 version – there were 40 last year. For another, non-European schools feature for the first time in 2008 – National Chengchi University(ranked 47) and National Sun Yat-Sen University (49), both business schools that are based in Taiwan, chart new territory with their entries.
