FT rankings 2025: European business schools leading in Education Custom and Executive Education Open

London Business School (UK) is the first-ranked school in the FT Executive Education Open 2025, published on 01/06/2025 and ranking the best schools for open programmes. It is followed by HEC Paris (France) and IESE Business School (Spain), second and third, respectively.

If the top 3 are European, the fourth place is held by the Brazilian school Fundação Dom Cabral, the only non-European in the top 10. The next non-European is the University of Michigan: Ross (U.S.), ranked 15^th.

"Anyone can apply for open programmes, which, to be ranked by the FT, must last at least three days for general management courses and four days for advanced programmes", specifies FT.

In the FT Executive Education Custom 2025, published the same day and ranking the best schools offering custom executive education programmes, IMD — International Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), London Business School and SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy) form the podium.

This second ranking is also dominated by European schools in the top 10, mainly by France, with four schools. The Brazilian…