Manchester MBA courses excel in global report

Business schools in the north-west have registered impressive results in new worldwide rankings.

Forbes has announced that Manchester Business School offers the second-best MBA course outside of the US.

Nearby Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) came seventh in the rankings.

MBAs are commonly undertaken by both recent graduates and by workers who want to boost their business skills.

Reacting to the report, LUMS said that its course represented ’outstanding value’ to graduates, in comparison with American programmes.

Oliver Westall, MBA programme director, added: ’[The courses] also provide the international experience so important when managers face a global recruitment market, with many nationalities in the classroom and international visits and project also an option.

’The class contains managers with longer experience than typical American programmes, offering more opportunity for sharing experience and engaging in discussion with faculty.’

Forbes derived its rankings by calculating the amount of extra salary that a student can earn by taking an MBA at a particular school.

The overall costs of taking the course are then deducted by this total, resulting in a net ’return on investment’ for the graduate.ADNFCR-2318-ID-19311262-ADNFCR