China Tops in FT 20 Asia Pacific B-school List, IIM A PGPX In Top 5 MBAs In Asia-Pac

China leads the table in the top 20 Asia Pacific Business Schools based on the 2017 FT rankings capturing 7 spots. However, three of the schools are in Hong Kong.

In the FT’s first-ever ranking of schools in the region, Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University stands first. On the second spot is CEIBS, Antai’s local competitor in Shanghai with NUS Business School, Singapore in the 3^rd rank.

The ranking is based on various parameters including the programs being offered in MBA, EMBA, MiM, Open Executive Education and Custom Executive Education categories.

In the 4^th spot is the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), the first among for Indian institutions to figure in the list of 20 schools.

HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) is 5^th followed by IIM Bangalore in the 6^th rank, Singapore’s Nanyang Business School 7^th, Tongji University SEM, Shanghai 8th, CUHK Business School 9^th and the University of Hong Kong in the 10^th spot.

Incidentally, the first-ranked Antai also has the distinction of being the only Asian school that features in all five FT rankings. Its best performance is in executive education, standing first in customized programs and second in open-enrollment programs and third in executive MBA.

In the Asia Pacific rankings, CEIBS scores over Antai standing first in MBA and Open Education. CEIBS is 7^th in MBA and 2^nd in Open Education but ranked 1 in custom executive education.

Ceibs, despite having a better average score misses out the top rank overall as it loses points for not having MiM program. Shanghai could also take credit for having Tongji (8^th rank) and Fudan (17^th rank) universities, the two other schools from mainland China in this grading.

Beijing’s Guanghua School of Management appears in the two executive education rankings but is out of the top 20. Tsinghua University also does not qualify, being in the EMBA table only for its joint degree with Insead.

Beijing’s Guanghua School of Management appears in the two executive education rankings but is out of the top 20. Tsinghua University also does not qualify, being in the EMBA table only for its joint degree with Insead.

Guanghua and Tsinghua are in the FT Masters in Finance ranking, which is not part of this composite ranking. Renmin University did not take part in the FT rankings in 2017.

As far as India is concerned, IIMA is ranked number 1 for Masters in Management (2 Year PGP), 6^th

for MBA (1 Year Full Time PGPX), 7^th for custom executive education and 8^th for open executive education. IIMB is ranked 3^rd for MiM (2 Year PGP), 6th for custom executive education and 7^th for open executive education and 11^th for MBA (1 Year Full Time EPGP).

IIM Calcutta (IIMC) is ranked 14^th, placed 4^th for MiM (2 Year PGP) and 15^th for MBA (1 Year PGPEX). Indian School of Business (ISB), the only one from the private sector is ranked 16^th placed 5^th in MBA (1 Year PGP).

Singapore, an international education hub, has three schools on the list. Apart from NUS and Nanyang, Lee Kong Chian is ranked13th.

Hong Kong, a close contender with Singapore in international education, has three schools on the list, including HKUST that tops EMBA with a joint programme with Kellogg and second for MBA.

Three Australian schools make it to the rankings with Melbourne Business School at 11th, having featured in four out of the five rankings. The University of Sydney Business School, the Cems alliance member for Australia, is 12th overall. It is ranked only for its MiM programme, which is the second-best in the region.

The third school is AGSM at UNSW Business School placed 12^th for MBA and 4^th for open executive education.