The first DL MBA RANK by The Economist

The 'Economist' has had a publication about the 'best' B&M MBAs for many years. I got my hands on one back in the 1990's and was kind of appalled. The price on it was about what you would pay for a hard-cover book. (Much more expensive than the US News 'America's best colleges'.) It was soft-cover, but very glossy, magazine format, filled with upscale advertising. Most annoyingly, about half of the world's best MBAs seemed to be British, especially ones that were trolling for applications from foreign students. So in effect students were paying top dollar for the privilege of reading British university promotional material. Great.

This latest thing reminds me of that. There are thirteen names on the Economist's list.

Aston -- UK
Bradford -- UK
Curtin -- Australia
EURO MBA -- (a European consortium)
Florida -- USA
Reading -- UK
IE Bus. Sch. -- Spain
Imperial College -- UK
Indiana -- USA
Open U. -- UK
Royal Holloway -- UK
Thunderbird -- USA
Warwick -- UK

So seven of the thirteen are British, two more are from the rest of Europe, and one Australian. And three leading American programs were tossed in as well, probably because many foreign students think that America has lots of good schools and expect to see some.

I don't take it very seriously. Once again, it's marketing material. It's probably useful in the sense that it spotlights some good programs, but I wouldn't call it a true ranking.

 

"So seven of the thirteen are British, two more are from the rest of Europe, and one Australian. And three leading American programs were tossed in as well, probably because many foreign students think that America has lots of good schools and expect to see some."

I don't agree with you perception that they only talk about British programs. You're ignoring the fact that they selected a American and a Spanish program as the top DL programs.

The fact is that there are more DL programs from top British institutions than from top american institutions (funny how the american education system seems to be more conservative than the British one!).

So it's no wonder that they have more UK names on this list.