HEC Paris heads the 2023 Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking of global business schools, just ahead of St Gallen of Switzerland, with four other French schools among the top tier of 12 of the 100 ranked institutions.
With 21 entries, French business schools comprise a fifth of all ranked institutions, ahead of 10 from the UK, led by London Business School, which is in third place overall.
However, in a sign of the growing internationalisation of the historically European-based qualification targeted at students with little or no professional work experience, there were also 11 ranked Indian schools, three from mainland China and two from Hong Kong, among many other countries represented.