Asian business schools: key data for prospective students

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Asian Business Schools Collage — The FT has gathered together its data on business degrees in Asia © FT montage

Kate Hodge, Andrew Garthwaite and Wai Kwen Chan

While global applications to business schools have declined year-on-year, the outlook for business education in Asia is optimistic thanks to a buoyant domestic market.

Nearly half (48 per cent) of the programmes in the region that responded to the Graduate Management Admission Council survey reported an increase in applications from domestic candidates this year. Some 37 per cent said applications from international students had increased.

The picture is not so rosy for Australia, however. Some 77 per cent of the 24 Australian programmes that responded to the GMAC survey said that total application numbers for 2019 have declined, most notably among international students.

The Financial Times has compiled its data on schools in mainland China, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan and Australia. Those interested in studying in the region can compare statistics, such as percentage salary increase, about a range of programmes including executive MBAs, masters in management and MBAs.

The directory is based on the most recently available published data. The executive MBA information is based on our 2018 ranking, while the MBA and Masters in Management information is from our 2019 tables.

** Denotes a Grande École programme.

**Asian Business Schools directory 2019**
Country	School	Programme	Type	International students (per cent)	Female students (per cent)	Average salary (PPP)	Percentage salary increase
Australia	AGSM at UNSW Business School	AGSM MBA	MBA	88	31	119,671	82
Australia	Macquarie Graduate School of Management	Master of Business Administration	MBA	100	36	128,166	81
Australia	Melbourne Business School	Master of Business Administration	MBA	90	36	118,959	51
Australia	Melbourne Business School	EMBA	EMBA	38	25	176,742	87
Australia	University of Sydney Business School	Master of Management	MiM	85	56	69,402	59
China	Arizona State University: Carey	Carey-SNAI EMBA	EMBA	0	34	259,186	86
China	BI Norwegian Business School/Fudan University School of Management	BI-Fudan MBA	EMBA	4	64	224,006	102
China	Ceibs	Ceibs full-time MBA	MBA	31	40	174,115	75
China	Ceibs	Ceibs Global EMBA	EMBA	51	41	364,578	183
China	EMLyon Business School	EMBA	EMBA	28	26	133,680	39
China	Essca School of Management	Essca Master in Management**	MiM	15	55	58,079	38
China	Fudan University School of Management	Fudan International MBA	MBA	11	65	110,062	71
China	Fudan University School of Management	Fudan EMBA	EMBA	2	25	295,793	195
China	Hult International Business School	EMBA	EMBA	87	37	170,908	67
China	Kedge Business School	Global EMBA	EMBA	13	27	197,480	92
China	OneMBA	OneMBA: FGV/XMU/Egade/RSM/UNC	EMBA	24	33	204,309	60
China	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	International MBA	MBA	36	51	112,817	118
China	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	Master in Management	MiM	11	59	88,444	193
China	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	SJTU Antai EMBA	EMBA	3	32	344,193	124
China	Skema Business School	Global MSc in Management	MiM	54	63	76,350	57
China	Tongji University School of Economics and Management	Master in Management	MiM	21	75	77,924	100
China	Tongji University/Mannheim Business School	Mannheim-Tongji EMBA	EMBA	19	35	197,454	42
China	Trium: HEC Paris/LSE/NYU: Stern	Trium Global EMBA	EMBA	89	34	342,970	60
China	University of Chicago: Booth	EMBA	EMBA	75	29	267,327	60
China	Washington University: Olin	Washington-Fudan EMBA	EMBA	20	41	368,498	63
China & Singapore	Tsinghua University/Insead	Tsinghua-Insead Dual Degree EMBA	EMBA	66	27	365,736	54
Hong Kong	CUHK Business School	Full-time MBA	MBA	49	37	115,689	59
Hong Kong	CUHK Business School	EMBA	EMBA	25	38	267,490	110
Hong Kong	EMBA-Global Asia: Columbia/HKU/LBS	EMBA-Global Asia	EMBA	84	34	307,840	76
Hong Kong	HKUST Business School	HKUST full-time MBA	MBA	68	28	156,202	108
Hong Kong	HKUST Business School	MSc in International Management	MiM	14	76	63,752	54
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Baptist University School of Business	MSc in Business Management	MiM	5	70	37,536	60
Hong Kong	Kellogg/HKUST Business School	Kellogg-HKUST EMBA	EMBA	62	28	507,492	66
Hong Kong	University of Hong Kong	HKU full-time MBA	MBA	69	46	131,386	104
Hong Kong & China	University of Hong Kong	HKU-Fudan MBA (International)	EMBA	1	60	212,327	116
India	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	Full-time one-year postgraduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX)	MBA	1	17	186,170	100
India	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	Two-year postgraduate Programme in Management	MiM	0	26	131,627	45
India	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	Executive postgraduate Programme in Management	MBA	0	21	178,774	124
India	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	Post-Graduate Programme in Management	MiM	4	28	123,618	41
India	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	Postgraduate Programme for Executives (PGPEX)	MBA	0	9	158,138	139
India	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	Postgraduate Programme in Management	MiM	0	27	134,348	50
India	Indian Institute of Management Indore	Postgraduate Programme in Management	MiM	0	38	96,832	52
India	Indian Institute of Management Udaipur	Postgraduate Programme in Management	MiM	0	25	88,281	59
India	Indian School of Business	Postgraduate Programme in Management	MBA	3	34	156,122	187
Singapore	Essec Business School	Master in Management**	MiM	56	49	99,967	71
Singapore	Essec/Mannheim	Essec-Mannheim EMBA	EMBA	59	28	161,349	49
Singapore	Grenoble Ecole de Management	Master in International Business	MiM	84	51	61,601	54
Singapore	Insead	Global EMBA	EMBA	89	25	279,102	45
Singapore	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore	Nanyang MBA	MBA	89	41	134,036	51
Singapore	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore	Nanyang EMBA	EMBA	88	32	271,154	126
Singapore	National University of Singapore Business School	The NUS MBA	MBA	88	35	153,216	50
Singapore	National University of Singapore Business School	NUS EMBA	EMBA	86	23	290,842	131
Singapore	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian	Master of Business Administration	MBA	90	33	118,415	38
Singapore	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian	MSc in Management	MiM	96	57	57,901	133
Singapore	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian	EMBA	EMBA	68	26	363,014	28
Singapore	UCLA: Anderson/National University of Singapore	UCLA-NUS EMBA	EMBA	72	22	300,440	47
South Korea	Korea University Business School	EMBA	EMBA	0	16	261,080	87
South Korea	Sungkyunkwan University GSB	Full-time MBA	MBA	55	45	131,166	100
South Korea	Yonsei University School of Business	EMBA	EMBA	0	15	241,651	74
Taiwan	National Chengchi University	MSc in Management Information Systems	MiM	8	32	69,033	48
Taiwan	National Sun Yat-sen University	EMBA	EMBA	3	22	187,344	59

Footnotes

Types of qualification

The Masters of Business Administration (MBA) is a post-experience degree where the majority of students have at least three years’ work experience.
The Executive MBA (EMBA) is designed for senior working managers. The majority of students have at least 10 years’ work experience.
The Masters in Management (MiM) is for students with very little or no work experience.

International students (per cent)

Based on the diversity of the students on the programme when the survey was carried out. It is calculated using the percentage of students whose citizenship differs from the country in which they study.

Female students (per cent)

Percentage of female students in the class at the time when the survey was carried out.

Average salary (PPP)

For MiM and MBA, this is the average salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP equivalent with adjustment for variations between sectors. For EMBA, this is the average salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP equivalent.

Percentage salary increase

For MBA and MiM, this is the average difference in salary between graduation and today. Half of this figure is calculated according to the absolute increase and half according to the relative percentage increase.

For EMBA, this is the average difference in salary from before the EMBA to the time of the survey. Half of this figure is calculated according to the absolute salary increase, and half according to the percentage increase relative to the pre-EMBA salary. The latter is the figure published in the table.

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