Vlerick Business School makes top 30 in world rankings

Vlerick Business School has moved up the Financial Times’ Executive Education rankings for both Europe and the world. Vlerick, with campuses in Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels, remains the top business school in the Benelux for the fifth year in a row.

Vlerick’s overall ranking was boosted two places in the European table to 16th and gained five places in the international rankings to land at 29th best business school in the world. “We’ve made impressive progress in the rankings, thanks to years of hard work developing the kinds of programmes that really make a difference for both managers and entrepreneurs,” said general director Patrick De Greve. “We’d like to thank all of our clients and alumni for choosing Vlerick and for providing us with positive feedback about the Vlerick learning experience.”

The FT also has rankings for both standard and custom programmes. For standard programmes, Vlerick moved up three places to 29 in the world and remained at number 13 in Europe out of 75 schools.

For custom programmes, the school jumped 10 places to number 33 in the world. “Thanks to our continued commitment to internationalisation, we offered significantly more programmes abroad than in previous years,” explained De Greve. “Our approach to developing customised programmes has also evolved significantly over the past few years. We strive to better understand the specific educational needs of each of our clients. Using a variety of tools, we work with them to identify these needs. And we place a high priority on enriching the programmes with business-specific material to ensure they are highly relevant.”

Last year, more than 8,500 students completed programmes at Vlerick Business School. Nearly 3,550 chose one of the 81 standard programmes. Vlerick also developed 138 customised programmes for 4,990 students at local and international companies, including Carrefour, KBC, Nestlé and Vesuvius.

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