WHU: Top 3 in Europe and #14 Worldwide

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is the only German university to place in a recent list of top MBA programs worldwide published by social networking platform LinkedIn. In “Top MBA 2024: The 100 best business schools to grow your career around the world,” WHU has placed third among all European institutions—ahead of Said Business School, University of Oxford, IESE Business School, HEC Paris, and IMD Business School.

Globally, the school ranks #14, ahead of Yale School of Management, Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Haas School of Business at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley.

According to Professor Yuval Kalish, Academic Director of WHU’s Full-Time MBA Program, the school’s high placement can be traced back to its extraordinary commitment to entrepreneurship, sustainability, experiential learning, personal development, and its innovative use of artificial intelligence. That success, he describes, is the result of a “combination of excellent professors, excellent students, a dedicated administration, and a global network that greatly empowers those students to realize their full potential in a rapidly changing world.”

For this ranking, LinkedIn evaluated data concerning the career development of MBA graduates around the world. The platform analyzed “five key pillars” of a full-time MBA program, those being job placement (hiring rate and labor market demand), career advancement, network growth and strength, leadership potential, and gender diversity.

LinkedIn also concluded that MBA degrees are steadily gaining in importance. For example, the number of managers with an MBA being hired into senior-level positions has increased by around 25% since 2010. This increase is even more evident when looking at entrepreneurs and company founders. Among them, the proportion of MBA graduates rose by 45% over the same period.