The regular ranking of MBAs take a lot of additional items into account like salary benefit, connections, reputation of institution which are not really relevant to the course content offered. But this year Economist did a ranking on the distance learning MBAs. Ranking in this group of MBA actually is very special. Here all the fringe elements don´t matter. Such MBAs hardly assist in job switch or salary rise . So the rating brings out the pure academic content. A person who is working and spends a part of free time , not expecting any gain in salary or position is going to be more truthful. He would be a better judge on the relevancy of the training he receives. Well, the ranking of these distance education MBAs can be seen here http://mba.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=view_article&eiu_article_id=1782965163 .(I am not sure everybodycan see as the site requires registration). 5 British universities are on the top while US has 2 including the top one . France, Spain and Australia have one each.
Why would British Universities crowd this group while the US ones could only manage 2. I guess the British universities cater to a lot of European managers who are working and don´t find enough in incentive to take a break from the job to do such courses.
