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FINANCIAL TIMES: MIP POLITECNICO DI MILANO’S INTERNATIONAL FLEX MBA AMONG THE BEST 10 ONLINE MASTERS GLOBALLY

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Flex MBA the only Italian programme in the ranking: up one place on last year, now 8th in the world and in Europe’s top 5

MIP Politecnico di Milano reconfirms its place among the best business schools in the world for online MBAs. MIP is the Graduate School of Business belonging to the School of Management at Politecnico di Milano. According to the Financial Times Online MBA Ranking 2021, published today, MIP’s International Flex MBA is 8th in world for distance learning Masters in Business Administration, one place better than last year. In the ranking for European business schools, MIP is in 5th place and is still the only Italian school in the ranking compiled every year by the British newspaper.

“Our higher education offer holds its place among the most competitive in the world”, said Vittorio Chiesa, President of MIP. “Every manager, business person and professional knows that is it vitally important to continue developing their capabilities and expertise, and strengthen leadership skills that are essential to guide companies, from SMEs to large multinationals, in a dynamic and rapidly changing world. MIP is now an international reference point for its role in supporting leaders in this challenge”.

MIP’s International Flex MBA was launched in 2016, and is taught via an innovative platform developed in partnership with Microsoft. It is the English version of our Flex MBA, the first MBA in Italy to have embraced smart learning when it debuted in 2014 within MIP’s programme portfolio. In eight years, over 550 students have taken one of these two MBAs, with enrolments up by 35% in 2020 alone.

Looking at the FT ranking and the parameters used, the International Flex MBA scored well in all “career progress” indices (progression in the alumni’s level of seniority and the size of company they now work for versus three years ago on graduation), in gender balance on the School’s Board and for the number of international students and faculty.

“We are very proud to have received this acknowledgement from the Financial Times, as the only business school in Italy included in the ranking”, added Federico Frattini, MIP Dean. “This improvement in our global position confirms the quality of our distance learning offer. The health emergency inevitably also had an impact on the way we ‘do’ higher education, and accelerated a process of innovation that we were already expecting as the natural progression in executive education. The rise in number of people studying for one of these MBAs in such an unusual year as 2020 indicates that our decision to introduce smart learning as the first in Italy and one of the earliest in Europe was a key move that allowed us to intercept the growing demand for flexibility, something that our business community has been expressing for some time”.

In the Financial Times’ top ten ranking, MIP is ahead of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (USA) and the Australian Graduate School of Management at UNSW Business School in Sydney. Warwick Business School (UK) retain the lead, followed by IE Business School (Spain) and Imperial College Business School (UK), a new entrant to the ranking.

MIP’s International Flex MBA is inserted within an educational portfolio of excellence, joining about 40 Masters, including 7 MBAs and Executive MBAs, 200 open executive programmes and a series of training programmes customised for companies.

 

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The Economist’s 2021 ranking of full-time MBA programmes: Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management among the top ninety in the world

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MIP Politecnico di Milano, part of the School of Management, enters the Economist’s rankings dedicated to the best full-time MBAs in the world for the first time. 

MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business is delighted to announce that, for the first time in its history, it has joined The Economist’s 2021 ranking of  full-time MBA programmes, the classification that recognises the best full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes in the world. Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management is, in fact, among the ninety schools selected and, specifically, ranks 86th.

At a European level, the school is the only one in the ranking among technical universities with a Business School or Management Department, and the fourth among generalist universities with technical expertise and a Business School or Management Department. More broadly, thirty-five European schools feature in the ranking.

Among the parameters considered by the classification, the Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management stands out in terms of the percentage of students who found work within three months of the end of their course, the average increase in their salary and the representation of international students and  alumni.

In the words of Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, President and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano, respectively: “We are honoured to join this ranking for the first time in our history. It is an achievement which we would like to share with all the students who have chosen our school and with all those who, we hope, will want to do so during the year that has just started.”

The Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking 2020: Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management among the top three European business schools attached to “technical” universities, and is 41st outright.

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MIP Politecnico di Milano, part of the School of Management, makes further gains on 2019, and this year applications to its MBAs jumped up by 13% in Italy.

 

MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business is delighted to announce that it joins Europe’s best business schools in The Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking 2020.

The School is placed third among European schools belonging to a technical university and, more generally, is 41st out of the 90 schools listed, four places higher than in 2019, where it was 45th out of 95.

Politecnico di Milano’s Business School gains three places in the ranking for MBAs, and is now in 38th place. The greatest improvement was for “Salary increase”, a criterion measuring the rise in earnings three years after graduating. Among the many excellent programmes offered by the School, the standout was Executive Education 2020, with its Open and Customised programmes, both up from 41st to 39th place. Another success is the rise in percentage of “Female faculty” (from 39 to 41%) and “Faculty with doctorate” (from 81 to 83%).

Looking at the ranking of technical universities with a Business School and/or a Department of Management, the School of Management confirms its third place in the classification, behind Imperial College (UK) and Aalto University (Finland). If we also consider generalist universities with technical expertise and a business school, the School of Management is placed 11th.

The School’s place in the ranking is joined by equally important results in terms of student interest. In the particularly complex situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, MIP received 13% more applications from candidates living in Italy, with a substantial increase in the overall number of participants taking MBAs and Specialising Master programmes.

In the words of Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, President and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano, respectively: “Our Business School was able to perform superbly even amid all the difficulties of the year now coming to an end. We are pleased to share our pleasure in the recognition awarded to us by the Financial Times with our ever-increasing number of current and future students, and with everyone who has worked with us day in and day out to help us achieve these results”.

 

QS MBA Career Specialization Rankings 2021: work, research and placement make the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano one of the best in the world

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QS ranking recognises MIP’s MBAs in six areas, with special emphasis on the excellent score achieved in Operations Management, followed by Entrepreneurship and Marketing. Such a recognition bears out the labour market’s appreciation for both the training endeavours of the school and its alumni.

 

MIP’s MBAs rank among the best in the world, including in terms of specialisations in the different working fields. This is revealed by the QS MBA by Career Specialization Rankings 2021 drawn up by Quacquarelli Symonds, a company that engages in analysing academic curricula available worldwide. According to this ranking, built on the results achieved by the different schools and alumni in a variety of business areas, the School of Management of Milan Polytechnic ranks among the top 100 in as many as six categories, standing out in particular in Operations Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing.

 

More specifically, the best result was scored in Operations Management, where the School ranked 5th, while it reached the 35th position in Entrepreneurship and the 43rd in Marketing. Acting as key enablers of this remarkable achievement is above all the very high score awarded to research, together with reputation among employers and career placement.

 

These results are even more relevant if benchmarked against the method used to draw up the ranking, as over 37 thousand employers were considered and millions of academic publications and statistics on alumni employment were reviewed. First and foremost, this goes to show that the labour market recognises the prowess of the people trained at the School of Management, and that these very people then pursue top-level careers, either as independent professionals or within leading organisations.

 

The variety of the considered areas is also striking, confirming the school’s commitment to pursuing a path where management, economics and technology meet and blend together to form an educational whole.

 

In addition to the three areas mentioned above, the School of Business also ranks among the top 100 in the areas of Consulting, Information Management and Technology.

 

This is the third confirmation in a few days of the quality of the School educational offer. MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business has been included for the second time in its history in the prestigious international Financial Times Executive MBA 2020 ranking, while MIP courses have been celebrated in the QS Business Masters Rankings 2021. A double recognition further enhanced by the result achieved in the QS MBA by Career Specialization Rankings 2021.

The Financial Times Global Executive MBA 2020: The School of Management of Politecnico di Milano among the best in the world.

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MIP, the Graduate School of Business belonging to the School of Management, enters the FT international rankings with its Executive MBA, a programme listed for the second time in its history and described as outstanding for its commitment to CRS.

 

MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business joins The Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2020, for the second time in its history, with its 100th place in this acclaimed international classification. After its 94th place in 2010, the Business School of Politecnico di Milano is once again among the schools recognised for the quality of their Executive MBA programmes.

 

MIP’s Executive MBA is in 35th place for its focus and care for issues of sustainability and CSR, in 71st place for international diversity and 80th according to the parameter that examines research carried out at the School of Management. It also scores highly for the quota of women in the faculty (Female faulty, 41%), and on the School of Management’s Advisory Board (Women on board, 50%).

 

Compared to the European ranking for 2019, other improved parameters are average salary three years after graduating, up by 9% on last year, and increase in salary after graduation, up from 43% in 2019 to 49% in 2020.

 

Overall, the School of Management is one of only thee technical universities with a Business School or a Department of Management in the classification, behind Imperial College (UK) and Aalto University (Finland).

 

Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, President and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano, respectively: “It gives us tremendous pleasure to see our Executive MBA rewarded by such an authoritative ranking as that compiled by the Financial Times. Joining the top 100 programmes in the world once again after a ten-year break is a great achievement and will encourage us to continue our work of further improving the quality of our educational offer”

 

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QS 2021 Business Masters Rankings: Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management among the best Business Schools in the world

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The courses held by MIP, the Graduate School of Business belonging to the School of Management, ranked highly in the international classification for the best MBAs and specialist masters, in 7th place for its Master in Supply Chain Management. A further recognition in the Financial Times’ Masters in Management Ranking 2020: the School of Management 3rd placed Business School in Europe among technical universities.

 

MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business is one of the best Business Schools in the world, according to QS 2021 Business Masters Rankings, the classification reserved for the world’s best MBAs and specialist business master’s degrees, being placed 7th for its Master in Supply Chain Management. Among the elements that have contributed to this position in the upper section of the rankings are its focus on diversity, the employability of its students and the return on investment.

 

In 2021, the QS Business Masters Rankings evaluated the quality of teaching for 258 course at 158 academic institutions in 40 countries across the world. As well as class and faculty diversity, employability and return on investment, the other indicators examined are thought leadership and entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes. MIP Politecnico di Milano confirms its place in the upper echelons of the rankings, as it did in 2020.

 

Looking at the QS international classification of the individual courses offered by the various business schools, the School of Management is listed for its Master in Management (at 36th place) and Master in Finance (at 68th place).

 

In the words of Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, President and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano, respectively: “We are proud to receive these superb acknowledgements only days after reopening our campus. We will continue in our efforts of further improving the quality of our teaching, which will always retain its defining elements, such as our care for and focus on diversity”.

 

The School of Management received another prestigious accolade from the Financial Times, confirming its place in the FT Masters in Management 2020 Ranking. The School is placed 3rd in Europe among technical universities with a Business Schools or a Business Management Department. Its place is reconfirmed once again this year, with a smaller field of 90 outstanding management schools being included in the FT’s 2020 MiM Ranking, instead of last years’ 100.

 

Alessandro Perego, the School of Management’s Director, and Stefano Ronchi, President of the degree course in Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano: “With this recognition, we confirm our place as only one of a few Masters in Management in the world that can combine management, economics and technical-engineering skills into a single MiM. This has allowed us to train managers capable of guiding innovation, increasingly driven by technology, with a mindset geared towards problem-solving”.

 

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Financial Times Executive Education Rankings 2020

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The School of Management of Politecnico di Milano betters 2019. In Europe, the School is placed 2nd and 3rd among schools linked to technical universities for its Open and Customised programmes

After its 9th place globally for its online master courses, MIP Politecnico di Milano has also climbed the rankings in Executive Education

 

MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business confirms its standing among the world’s best schools for its Open and Customised programmes in the FT Executive Education Rankings 2020. The School of Management is placed 81st in Executive Education – Customised programmes and 74th in Executive Education – Open programmes.

Furthermore, the School of Management is in 2nd and 3rd place in Europe in the Open and Customised categories, respectively, among schools linked to “technical” universities, these being universities that specialise in engineering and technology subjects and are intrinsically geared towards combining innovation and management skills.

In March, the Financial Times Online MBA Ranking 2020 accorded 9th place in its international classification to MIP’s offer of distance learning Masters in Business Administration.

In the Financial Times Executive Education – Open Programmes – Ranking 2020, MIP Politecnico di Milano has risen from 79th to 74th place, improving its scores in almost all parameters, with the highest recorded in Follow-up, Facilities and Female Participants.

Taking only Europe into account, the School of Management is placed 2nd in the group of technical universities with a Business School or Department of Management, and 7th in the group of generalist universities with technical expertise that also have a Business School or Department of Management.

In the Financial Times Executive Education – Customised Programmes – Ranking 2020, MIP is placed in 81st placed compared to last year’s 80th, amidst a greater number of schools under consideration. The scoring was determined by many parameters, above all Follow-up, New Skills & Learning, Future Use, International Clients, Overseas Programmes and Faculty Diversity.

The FT rankings are composed of two distinct parts. The first part relates to “Open” programmes, designed for individual professionals who take decisions independently about the direction and type of education. The second part relates to “Customised“ programmes, which specifically target companies and provide training to their managers and high-potential employees. The parameters that make up the end result are evaluated personally by the participants, CEOs and HR directors of the companies that have experienced the programmes directly.

Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, Chairman and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano: “We have worked extremely hard to continue and improve our offer, including in executive education. In the upcoming weeks, we will present our D-HUB Management Skills platform and Management Toolbox designed for professionals who wish to contribute towards their company’s growth by using our digital programmes. These results reward our great efforts in an increasingly competitive climate that requires continuous investment in the quality of our teaching programmes”.

 

QS Online MBA Rankings 2020: MIP Politecnico di Milano 5th in the world for its “International Flex EMBA”

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The School of Management of Politecnico di Milano improves on its 2019 results in the QS Quacquarelli Symonds classification for online MBA programmes.

MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business takes 5th place worldwide in the QS Online MBA Ranking 2020, a yearly classification of the best business schools for distance online programmes. MIP’s online MBA is the only Italian programme included in the rankings and is in 4th place in Europe. MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business takes a further step ahead, up from last year’s 7th place.

The International Flex MBA is the fully English version of our Flex MBA, which was the first smart learning MBA launched in Italy in 2014, and is now MIP’s flagship programme, with nearly 500 students taking the Italian and International versions as of today. In 2016, AMBA (the Association of MBAs) listed the Flex MBA among the most innovative MBAs in the world and, in 2017, it was the first such course in Italy to receive the EFMD – EOCCS certification for online programmes of excellence. According to the Financial Times’ Online MBA Ranking 2020, the International Flex MBA is also the only distance learning Italian programme to be included among the ten best in the world, in 9th place internationally and 4th for European schools.

The programme uses a digital teaching platform developed specifically in partnership with Microsoft.

In building its ranking of online MBA programmes taught in business schools, QS Quacquarelli Symonds assesses four key indicators:

  • Employability (30% of final score): which estimates how employable are the people taking the course.
  • Class Profile (30%): which looks at several parameters, including number of students on the course and their average professional experience.
  • Faculty and Teaching (35%): which looks at the quality of teaching and that of the teaching body.
  • Class Experience (5%): which looks at a series of indicators, such as the percentage of in-presence hours, whether students can use an app to support learning on a smartphone and/or tablet and the level of technical support.

Looking at the individual indicators above, the School of Management is in 3rd place for Faculty and Teaching and in 5th for Employability.

The QS rankings show IE Business School (Spain) in 1st place, followed by Imperial College Business School (UK), with Warwick Business School (UK) in 3rd place and AGSM @ UNSW Business School (Australia) in 4th.

Vittorio Chiesa and Federico Frattini, Chairman and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano, respectively: “ We are pleased that our position has improved again compared to 2019, and we will continue to invest in digital innovation and in the quality of teaching and learning. This will allow us to grow and develop further, in the full knowledge of the extraordinary importance held by online teaching at this moment and its role in the future”.

FT Online MBA Ranking: International Flex MBA by the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano a world top ten online Master

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The only Italian programme in the Financial Times ranking and a European top 4

Federico Frattini, MIP Dean: “In an explosive period for the debate on digital transformation within education processes and online learning, Italy has as a global reference point in our School. An excellent ‘distance’ acknowledgement”.

The International Flex MBA offered by Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management is the only Italian distance learning programme to be included among the ten best in the world, and it is in 4th place for European Schools. This is confirmed by the Financial Times, which today has published its Online MBA 2020 Ranking on the performance of the most outstanding distance learning Masters in Business Administration.

“In a moment of lively debate on the need to approach education from a distance, where innovative, flexible and inclusive models are a choice and not the answer to an emergency, the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano is once again showing its role as a trailblazer presenting excellent results in this field”. These are the words of Federico Frattini and Vittorio Chiesa, recently appointed as Dean and President of MIP, respectively. MIP designs and teaches Masters and other courses on behalf of the School of Management.

They then continue: “Our educational offer is now very largely available through smart learning. The International Flex MBA is taught via our platform specifically designed in partnership with Microsoft. This full English version of our Flex MBA was the first smart learning MBA launched in Italy in 2014, and is one of our School’s major success stories; as of today, nearly 500 students have taken the Italian and International versions. In 2016, AMBA (the Association of MBAs) listed our Flex MBA among the most innovative MBAs in the world and, in 2017, it was the first such course in Italy to receive the EFMD EOOCS certification for online programmes of excellence. Last year, the programme was placed in 7th place in the QS Distance/Online MBA Rankings 2019“.

In greater detail, the International Flex MBA was evaluated highly in the FT Online MBA 2020 Ranking for the superb way in which course colleagues, School faculty and staff are all able to interact online through the platform designed specially for this type of Master. The programme was also acknowledged for its impact on the participants’ level of pay (average, they receive a 40% increase within three years from graduation), and on their career prospects, for the excellent cost-benefit ratio, as well as for the high percentage of women (47%) and international members on the School’s Board (65%) and its policies concerning corporate social responsibility“.

Frattini and Chiesa conclude by saying: “These are superb results, achieved through our efforts to continuously improve the programme and extend the international dimension of the curriculum. Today, the excellent level of MIP Graduate School of Business is there for all to see in its development of digital solutions supporting the education process and the value of our online offer. Our objective is to find the optimal balance between ready and easy access to all course material and outstanding teaching and personalised learning experience”.

Financial Times Masters in Management 2019 Ranking

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The School of Management of Politecnico di Milano among the top 5 technical schools in the world for its Master of Science in Management Engineering

 

Politecnico di Milano’s School of Management holds its place among the world’s leading business schools and is in the top five for schools belonging to a “technical” university with a specific focus on engineering and technology, with its Master of Science in Management Engineering.

This is according to the Financial Times, which has published its Masters in Management Ranking 2019, placing the Milanese school’s long-standing program among the top 94 in absolute terms and among the top five for programs taught at business schools connected to technical universities, as is Politecnico di Milano. And that is not all, the School’s Master of Science in Management Engineering is also among the top five globally for Management Engineering, that is, among programs with a similar structure and set of contents.

The ranking examined a series of aspects, giving high scores for the graduate’s career prospects, both in Italy and abroad, the pay levels that this program can lead to and the opportunity for students to be offered internships in leading companies during their studies. Other factors include the School’s excellent price-quality ratio, its highly international faculty and the study and placement opportunities offered outside Italy.

“Very few Masters in Management Engineering can be measured directly against ours”, confirms Stefano Ronchi, President of the degree course in Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. “Our distinctive feature is that we place courses in management, economics and finance alongside our teachings in engineering and technical subjects, which are indispensable to understand and oversee the digital transformation that will increasingly permeate throughout company development. We are able to give our students a strong grounding in management while helping them to cultivate an analytical and engineering mindset that can be applied to identifying and solving problems”.

The School of Management of Politecnico di Milano brings together the Department of Management Engineering and MIP, the Business School of the Milan-based university.

In a joint statement, Alessandro Perego and Andrea Sianesi, the Department’s Director and the President and Dean of MIP, respectively, explain: “The FT’s recognition is, as always, extremely important for all our Master students, alumni and graduates. For years, we have concentrated on an international approach to our courses and on competencies linked to digital transformation. The Financial Times’ conclusions show that we are on the right path, as it places us among the best management schools in the world with a strong emphasis on technology and engineering”.