The Economist





It conducted an Economist Intelligence Unit Survey of more than 200 senior executives. They came up with the following ten significant areas for selecting an open-programme provider





* Content and internationalism of the programme



* Faculty quality



* Provider's Amenities



* Quality of fellow participants



* Level of post-course support for partcipants



* Capable of demonstrating an impact back in the workplace



* Cost/value for money



* Wide range of courses



* Maintaining an ongoing relationship





Based on the aforementioned criteria, open programme participants were asked to rate those schools that they attended and eventually came up with top eight business schools.





Financial Times





They used twenty criteria to determine their rankings. The first eight criteria are based on alumni survey, the second nine criteria came from business schools' survey and the basis of last three criteria is on research survey.





Alumni Survey



* Weighted Salary



* Salary percentage increase



* Value for money



* Career progress



* Aims achieved



* Placement success



* Alumni recommendation



* International mobility





Business School Survey



* Employed at three months



* Women faculty



* FT doctoral rating



* International faculty



* International students



* International board



* International experience



* Languages



* Faculty with doctorates





Research survey



* FT research rating





According to Dr. N.M. Kondap, vice-chancellor of NMIMS University, "Surveys are conducted using different metrics and parameters. Some amount of discrepancy also occurs during the assessment of the survey which is reflected in the results."

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