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Henley UK ranked the most gender-balanced faculty body worldwide with 47% women

In the 16th edition of the Financial Times (FT) annual ranking of the world's top 100 executive MBA programmes for senior working managers, Henley Business School UK was ranked the most gender-balanced faculty body worldwide with 47% women compared to the survey average of 28%. Henley achieved 47th position overall. There are some 13,000 business schools worldwide.

The FT said the Henley faculty were highly rated by the alumni, with one graduate commenting, “They were always approachable and highly supportive during difficult times.”

Jon Foster-Pedley, Dean of Henley Business School Africa, said, “For 70 years our focus has been to empower individuals to become great professionals and outstanding business leaders who act with integrity and once again this has been recognised in these global rankings. It is gratifying that the quality of the Henley experience and the impact on our participants’ careers is also reflected across other published results this year, including undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education.”

Schools wishing to submit their EMBA programme to participate in the survey must meet certain criteria to be eligible. They must first be accredited by either the US’s Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business or the EU EQUIS accreditation bodies. Their EMBA must be cohort-based, with students enrolling and graduating together, and produce at least 30 graduates each year.

A record 137 programmes from the world’s top business schools took part in the 2016 ranking process, up from 129 the previous year. These include 16 programmes delivered jointly by more than one school.

Data for the ranking is collected using two online surveys: one completed by participating schools and one by alumni who graduated from their nominated programmes in 2013.

The FT requires a minimum response rate of 20 percent (or 20 fully completed responses, whichever is the greater) from the alumni survey for a school to be considered for the final ranking. A total of 4,768 alumni completed the survey — 47 percent of all graduates on participating programmes.

Alumni responses inform five ranking criteria: salary today, salary increase, career progress, work experience and aims achieved. They account together for 55 percent of the ranking’s weight. The first two criteria, about alumni salaries, each count for 20 percent.

For the gender diversity criteria, schools with a 50:50 (male:female) composition receive the highest score. The international diversity calculation is based on the overall percentage of students and faculty from abroad as well as the spread of these individuals by citizenship based on the Herfindahl index, a measure of concentration.

About Henley

In the 16th edition of the Financial Times' (FT) annual ranking of the world’s top 100 executive MBA programmes for senior working managers, Henley Business School UK was ranked the most gender-balanced faculty body worldwide with 47% women compared to the survey average of 28%. Henley achieved 47th position overall.

Henley Business School has maintained its strong standing as one of the world’s top 30 business schools in the 2016 Economist world ranking of full-time MBA programmes, achieving 27th position overall, and first place in two key categories.

First position was achieved in the survey’s “Potential to Network” and “Breadth of the Alumni Network” categories and third position in the “Percentage who found jobs through the careers service” category. Henley attained fifth position in “Student Quality” and 10th position worldwide in “Personal development and educational experience”.

In the prestigious 2016 UK Financial Times annual international global survey of business school executive education programmes, Henley Business School Africa has achieved the highest ranking for any business school accredited in Africa.

The survey included all the international executive education operations of Henley in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Germany and Africa, of which South Africa was the largest by far. The South African results made a significant contribution towards the raising of the total ranking. Henley was ranked 20th overall in the world, up nine places from 29th in 2015 and achieved third position in the UK.

Henley was placed sixth in the world for international clients which included input from companies such as Roche Pharmaceuticals, Danone, Bank of China, UPM paper and ING bank.

Categories evaluated covered course design, aims achieved, teaching methods and materials, faculty quality, and new skills and learning. Henley was also in the top 20 worldwide for repeat business and growth based on its Fortune 500 clients returning year on year.

Henley Business School was the first business school to be established in Europe, in 1946, and has since built a pedigree of outstanding education for business and the public sector, recognised worldwide in international rankings, in accreditation, for its quality of students and breadth of alumni.

We build the people who build the businesses that build Africa, and our alumni work in senior positions in government, industry, media, business schools and NGOs. We are part of the University of Reading, ranked as one of the world's top 1% universities, and one of the global top 200 for research. Although steeped in science with over 17 research centres, we believe business is more than science and requires confident, engaged managers and leaders who can create and deliver outstanding value through their organisations and so build a better, prosperous Africa.

Registered with the Department of Education as a Private Higher Education Institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration Certificate no 2010/HE10/001.

1 Nov 2016 11:52

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