Lagos Business School
(LBS); a leading management and business school in Africa, has emerged as the
only school in Africa to be listed among the top 50 business schools in the
world in The Economist magazine’s 2018 EMBA ranking.
The LBS Executive MBA
programme ranks as the 48th best in the world out of 65 schools featured in the
annual ranking of the world best providers of the Executive MBA programme based
on two broad measures namely; personal development/educational experience and
career development.
The schools were
judged based on the quality of their EMBA participants, work experience, the
number of industry sectors from which they applied, career progression, quality
of faculty, and percentage of faculty with PhDs, among other criteria. In the
percentage increase in pre-EMBA salary on graduation, the Lagos Business School
is ranked third in the world. LBS EMBA graduates record a considerable increase
in remuneration upon graduation from the programme.
Lagos Business School
is ahead of world-class institutions such as the University of Maryland,
University of Pittsburg, University College Dublin, University of Melbourne and
several others in The Economist magazine’s 2018 EMBA ranking.
Expressing delight in
the achievement, the Dean, Lagos Business School, Dr. Enase Okonedo, said that
the ranking is an indication that the corporate world recognise the value of an
EMBA qualification from the School. According to her, “This is a testament of
the high quality of business and management education which we offer at the
School and a result of our consistent and conscientious hard work”.
The Director, MBA,
Lagos Business School, Dr. Uchenna Uzo, added that, “We are pleased that our
work here at LBS is being acknowledged across the globe. We are committed to
doing even more to transform business education and management practice in
Africa and beyond by producing quality graduates who will change the status
quo”.
Other top
institutions featured in The Economist magazine’s 2018 EMBA ranking include the
Yale School of Management, and Arizona State University with whom the Lagos
Business School has just entered into a strategic partnership for the
International Accelerated Degree Programme (IADP).
This latest
achievement follows the Financial Times (FT) Executive Education 2018 ranking
the Lagos Business School as the third in the open enrolment executive
education providers in Africa for the 12th consecutive year and second in the
custom executive education for two years. LBS is the only African institution
outside South Africa to be named in the FT’s list.
Other top prestigious
business schools on the list include the IESE Business School, Harvard Business
School, and University of Oxford. The Financial Times annual ranking of the
best management programmes for business schools around the world is based on
the quality of learning, staff and student diversity, growth in business and
international reach.
Lagos Business School
is also the first and only school in Africa to be featured in the CEO
Magazine’s Global MBA rankings. According to the list, LBS’ full-time MBA and
Executive MBA programmes have been recognised as Tier One Programmes. Out of
the 270 programmes from top business schools around the world recognized in the
rankings, Lagos Business School ranked 70th while its EMBA programme equally
took the 70th position on the Global EMBA ranking. Other prestigious schools
featured in the rankings include the IE Business School, Leeds University
Business School and EU Business School.
Lagos Business School
is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
(AACSB) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
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