Excelia Business School Ranked in 2026 FT Executive Education Ranking
Posted On May 22, 2026
Excelia Business School has once again demonstrated the strength and growing impact of its Executive Education offer through its performance in the 2026 ranking of customised executive education courses and programmes, published by the Financial Times.
This year, the school has achieved 40th place worldwide, rising 3 places from the previous edition, and ranking 12th amongst the French schools featured.
This latest achievement highlights the relevance of a model founded on joint development with companies, the ability to accurately address the evolution of professions, and the capacity to deliver high-impact training courses and programmes in environments undergoing transformation. The 2026 result thereby affirms the increasing reputation of Excelia Business School in the international market for offering bespoke training to executives and organisations.
The Financial Times ranking places significant focus on the feedback provided by client organisations, whose responses account for 80% of the final score. As such, Excelia’s performance is particularly significant, directly reflecting the satisfaction of the organisations it works with and the value they place on the training solutions developed in collaboration with the school.
Excelia Business School particularly distinguishes itself in several key areas:
- 24th in the world in the ‘Course follow-up’ category, which assesses the quality of long-term support and guidance provided to teams
- 31st in the world for ‘Value for money’, a key indicator of perceived return on investment
- 35th in the world in the ‘New skills and learning’ category, which measures the development of new skills and the quality of the training
“These results highlight the school’s ability to develop customised courses and programmes that meet the tangible needs of companies: training that is useful, transformative, immediately applicable, and designed to keep pace, over the long term, with changes in professions, organisations, and skills. This recognition also reflects the commitment of the Executive Education Centre teams, who have worked diligently to offer high-impact courses and programmes that are closely aligned with industry needs.” Guillaume Pernoud, Director of Executive Education, Excelia Business School