The 2013 Financial Times European Business School ranking, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is topped for the first time by joint winners: HEC Paris of France and IE Business School of Spain. The two schools head the table of the best 75 business schools in Europe.
Unlike the other rankings produced by the FT, this European edition ranks business schools rather than their programmes. The tables are based on the indexed scores achieved by schools taking part in the 2013 FT MBA, executive MBA, masters in management, and open and custom executive education rankings.
Both quality and quantity are required to reach the top. Quantity counts since schools taking part in all five rankings typically make it into the top half of these tables. However, quality is foremost: only schools that did consistently well across the rankings make the top 20.