Nova School of Business and Education
Nova SBE, in 16th position, moves up one place and continues to be the best positioned Portuguese management school in the FT ranking. Católica de Lisboa drops 4 places to 25th, the management schools at the University of Porto go up one, to 38. And France dominates the ranking.
A do Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking coloca six national schools among the 100 best in Europe, in a ranking led by two French institutions, Insead and HEC Paris. The London Business School, from the United Kingdom, closes the podium, in 3rd position.
The top places in the ranking are dominated by Francewhich, in addition to 1st and 2nd position, places six schools among the top 10 places.
Four of the Portuguese management schools are in the first half of the ranking, in which the Nova SBE continues to be the best positioned. THE 17th position obtained this year is truly the best ever from a Portuguese school.
In 25th position in the ranking comes School of Business and Economics from the Catholic University of Lisbon. THE Faculty of Economics from the University of Porto / Porto Business School, in 38th position, completes the podium of the best Portuguese management schools, according to the FT ranking.
The batch of national management schools in this year’s ranking is completed by ISCTE Business School, in 44th position, ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, at 66th, and Católica Porto Business Schoolwhich, in 81st position, registers the biggest climb.
In a statement sent to newsrooms, Nova SBE highlights that its “presence in the top 20 best European business schools is reinforced this year, with the rise to 17th place in the Financial Times ranking”.
“The result achieved not only confirms the school’s relevance in the global panorama of the best business schools, but also consolidates Portugal’s impact in the context of European higher education“, adds the institution’s note.
“This result is the best ever achieved by a Portuguese school and reinforces Nova SBE’s positioning among the elite of European business schools”, highlights the rector of Nova SBE in the note, Pedro Oliveira.
Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, which this year dropped from 22nd to 26th position but maintains second place among national schools, recalls in a statement that “the Católica-Lisbon was the first business school Portuguese company to join this ranking in 2007, having been consistently in top positions since 2012″.
The University of Porto, which this year rises from 39th to 38th position, highlights in a statement that “the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and the Porto Business School once again assert themselves among the European elite of management education, by once again integrating the European Business Schools Ranking of the Financial Times, the most recognized annual assessment of the quality and prestige of business schools in Europe”.
“Portugal is also to be congratulated in this rankingsince having six recognized business schools should be a source of satisfaction for all Portuguese people and a sign of the quality of Management training in Portugal”, he notes Filipe Santosdirector of the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, in the statement sent to newsrooms.
