Vlerick Business School consolidates its top 30 position worldwide for open executive programmes

Results of the Financial Times Open Executive Education Ranking 2024

21 May 2024

For 12 years in a row, Vlerick Business School remains the number 1 provider of open enrolment executive programmes in Belgium. On a European level, we remain stable at number 20 – and worldwide, we are at number 27. The Open Executive Education Ranking is issued annually by the Financial Times and lists the top 80 open-enrolment programme providers in the world.

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  • Ranked 1 in Belgium
  • Ranked 20 in Europe
  • Ranked 27 worldwide

These Financial Times ranking results are based on a survey filled out by the participants of open enrolment executive programmes offered by the respective schools. The survey examines participants' learning experience and how they rate that experience.

We are especially proud of our overall participant satisfaction score. On a 10-point scale, our participants give Vlerick’s open enrolment executive programmes an average rating of 9.29.

Professor Dirk Buyens, Head of Open Executive Education at Vlerick Business School, says: “We are delighted that we once again achieved to maintain our excellent local but also international position in an ever-increasing competitive market. We’d like to explicitly thank our customers for valuing and recognising the qualitative learning experience that Vlerick strives to offer in its open enrolment programmes for managers, executives and entrepreneurs. The very high satisfaction score proves that we truly stand by our Live Learn Leap purpose – and that our learning journeys support and enable our participants with the knowledge and confidence to take the next leap in their careers.”

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Maaike van Ameijde

Maaike van Ameijde

BU Head Open Executive Education