The Irish Management Institute (IMI) has once again moved up in its position as the only business school in Ireland to be globally ranked among international providers of Customised Executive Education in this year’s Financial Times (FT) Global Rankings.

Today’s announcement shows the IMI has moved up in the esteemed list  from 69^th to 64^th rank in the providers of customised executive execution in the world, ahead of University of Cambridge Judge Business school. It is the seventh year in succession that the IMI have been placed among the top global providers of uniquely tailored, company-specific executive education.
Speaking about the FT Rankings announcement, Dr. Simon Boucher, CEO of IMI said:
“IMI’s inclusion, once again, in this prestigious global ranking is testament to our commitment to designing and delivering truly innovative learning and development strategies that produce real business results.  
“Having a world class learning provider based in Ireland is important for Ireland and Irish business competing globally.  This ranking, which is largely determined by feedback from our clients, demonstrates the high regard in which IMI is held across industry on a national and international level.”
IMI has achieved this global ranking against a backdrop of increased competition from high profile international business schools, with several new and bigger entrants joining the rankings this year including:

•  National University of Singapore Business School,
•  Peking University of China
•  Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

This year the IMI also placed:

• 26^th worldwide in Overseas programmes – ahead of Columbia and IMD
• 32^nd worldwide in Partner schools -ahead of Harvard, IMD, Ashridge, Oxford Said, MIT Sloan
• 34^th worldwide in Client follow-up – ahead of Harvard and Columbia
• 38^th worldwide on Faculty diversity– ahead of Oxford Said business school and Harvard.

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