2011 BusinessWeek Ranking of The World’s Best B-Schools for Open Enrollment Executive Education
| Rank & School | 2009 Rank | Difference |
| 1. Harvard Business School | 1 | — |
| 2. IESE Business School | 9 | +7 |
| 3. INSEAD | 2 | -1 |
| 4. Columbia Business School | 12 | +8 |
| 5. ESADE | 11 | +6 |
| 6. Center for Creative Leadership | 5 | -1 |
| 7. Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 7 | — |
| 8. Stanford University | 3 | -5 |
| 9. Duke University (Fuqua) | 18 | +9 |
| 10. IE Business School | 14 | +4 |
| 11. IMD | 4 | -7 |
| 12. Northwestern (Kellogg) | 13 | +1 |
| 13. Chicago (Booth) | 15 | +2 |
| 14. London Business School | 6 | -8 |
| 15. Michigan (Ross) | 8 | -7 |
| 16. Ashridge Business School | 8 | -8 |
| 17. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | NR | +4* |
| 18. Notre Dame (Mendoza) | NR | +3* |
| 19. MIT (Sloan) | 10 | -9 |
| 20. Thunderbird | 20 | — |
Source: BusinessWeek An asterisk indicates a minimum rise in places because the school had been unranked in 2009 when BW last ranked executive education programs.
(Go to next page for table of the world’s top 20 business schools in custom executive education).
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