The Financial Times masters in management report, established in 2005, ranks masters programmes in general management for students with no prior work experience. Details of these programmes are submitted by leading international business schools to be evaluated and potentially published in our table of the top 50 programmes.

The ranking is intended to give a thorough assessment of the nominated Masters in management programmes, as well as an insight into participating business schools and their alumni. It is compiled using data from two sets of online surveys. The first is completed by business schools and the second by alumni who graduated from the respective programmes three years previously. For each programme we require a response rate of 20 per cent from alumni, with a minimum of 20 responses for schools with fewer than 100 alumni in the graduating class.