In this year’s Financial Times Executive MBA ranking, WU Executive Academy’s Global Executive MBA was ranked # 46 worldwide (# 9 worldwide in “career progress”).

The FT EMBA Ranking has been considered the Champions League of globally leading business schools for many years. Only a minuscule percentage of MBA programs offered worldwide manage to meet the FT’s demanding criteria to enter the ranking, which is why people considering MBA studies pay as close attention to its results as to leading international accreditations such as AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS.

Rank 46 Overall and Global Leader in Important Categories

In keeping with the previous years’ methodology, the ranking was based on 16+1 categories that focus on program quality and alumni’s career development prospects. Compared to the previous year, the Global Executive MBA scored (markedly) higher ratings in ten categories, retaining its good grades in the other categories. In the most significant “overall satisfaction” category, where business schools can score a maximum of ten points, the Global Executive MBA received 9.46 points, an increase of more than one point compared to the previous year and a result that outperforms half of the top ten MBAs in the current ranking.

At rank 46, the Global Executive MBA once again scores among the world’s best 50 MBA programs, underlining the outstanding results already achieved in the past years. But what’s remarkable this year is that the double-degree program significantly improved in the categories that are most important for (prospective) students: “salary today” (US$ 223,000: a plus of 21K), “career progress” to #9 (up 24 spots), and “work experience” to #18 (an improvement by 20 ranks).

The Crème de la Crème of the World’s Leading MBA Programs

Margarethe Rammerstorfer, WU’s Vice-Rector for Academic Programs & Student Affairs and the Interim Dean of the WU Executive Academy, is jubilant about yet another successful performance in this year’s FT EMBA Ranking: “This ranking makes me very happy. It shows that all our work and efforts of the past years are paying off. What’s particularly important to me is for both our graduates and our current and future students to know that their MBA degree places them among the international cream of the crop. The Global Executive MBA’s success speaks for the excellence of all WU programs, opening up manifold professional and personal avenues for growth.”

Also Rupert Sausgruber, Rector of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, is very pleased about the outstanding results in this year’s FT EMBA Ranking: “This placement confirms that WU successfully lives up to its role of providing impetus to the economy, society, and to innovators. It also underlines our responsibility of equipping students with well-founded expertise, critical-thinking skills, and a global perspective to enable them to make valuable contributions in a dynamic world.”

View the Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2025