IE Business School Ranks among Top Ten in the World According to QS Executive MBA Rankings 2024

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The latest edition of the QS Executive MBA Rankings ranks two of IE Business School’s Executive MBA programs amongst nearly 200 EMBA programs around the world.

The latest QS Executive MBA Rankings includes two of IE Business School’s Executive MBA programs in the world’s top ten programs. The Global Executive MBA ranks 10th in the world and in a separate of joint programs, the IE Brown Executive MBA, which is a unique alliance between IE Business School and Brown University, also ranks 5th in the world.

The IE Brown Executive MBA is a 15-month program that blends innovative management curriculum with the humanities and social sciences. Designed to equip leaders to build upon their business framework while strengthening their leadership capacity in order to better serve people, business, and planet, the program blends interactive online learning with in-person sessions to bring a diversity of perspectives into the learning experience. Residential sessions take place on the campuses of IE University in Madrid, Spain and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, as well as in Cape Town, South Africa, where students focus on their attentiveness to bias and power relations, and in entrepreneurial opportunities for driving within South African townships.

The Global Executive MBA is a 20-month EMBA program that enables students to challenge their global strategy and digital capabilities and equips them with the tools for success in the C-suite. Like the IE Brown Executive MBA, the Global Executive MBA blends online learning with intense residential periods on three continents and participants not only learn from IE Business School faculty in Madrid but also the prestigious institutions University of California, Singapore Management University, and with the University of Oxford and the experts from the Center of Ethics in AI. The program provides the opportunity to gain a global understanding of different cultures, team dynamics, and business practices and focuses specifically on business innovation, global business, and global leadership to help executives not only navigate the C-suite but also the challenges of globalization and digital transformation. 

To compile these rankings, QS combines combine input from thought leaders in business and management alongside the perceptions of global employers who recruit from the world’s best EMBA programs, and is further enhanced by program-specific indicators.