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4.3 EUROPE

In 2007, only 32 schools are featured from Europe, because of an increased presence of Asian business schools amongst recruiter choices. The make-up of the Global 100 business schools will vary with changes in employer demand profiles (in 2003, only 30
US business schools made the cut as more European schools entered the fray).

INSEAD and, following closely, London Business School (LBS), remain the two most popular business schools with recruiters, benefiting from the enduring recovery in consulting and banking. Spanish, Italian, Belgian and some Dutch and German schools, which are succeeding in attracting more recruiters, are making notable progress.

New in the top 30 in Europe in 2007 are ESCP_EAP, Ashridge, EM Lyon, Lancaster, Mannheim Business School and Warsaw University of Technology. Less high profile schools are featuring competitively at all levels showing that they have caught the eye of international recruiters. In the past two years, many European based schools, new to the recruiter preference tables, are emerging as strong players. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School set a trend indicating interest from recruiters in MBAs from Benelux.

The Central European University Business School (CEU) in Hungary and Warsaw University of Technology sustain the recent presence of Central/Eastern European institution featuring within the European top 30. However, IBS Moscow dropped out of the list this year having just made the cut last year.

Esade, IESE and IE-Instituto de Empresa are three Spanish schools, which have shown a strong increase in performance in the last few years, and in 2007 again feature among the top ten European schools. Italy also provides a core of Southern European business schools, with MIP Politecnico di Milano up two places to 17th and SDA Bocconi stable at 8th continuing to perform well.

French schools in the top 30 are represented by HEC Paris, ESCP_EAP, ESSEC and EM Lyon. Of these ESCP_EAP has shown the largest position improvement this year, up from 39th in Europe last year to 14th this year.

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