MDX academic partner UBI Business School tops Career Outcome and Diversity categories in latest QS EMBA rankings

This achievement demonstrates the closeness of our alignment with MDX in celebrating diversity, and fostering good citizenship, open minds, and our graduates’ values,” says UBI’s Director of Postgraduate Studies and International Development, Dr Maria Altamira.

MBAs validated by MDX taught at UBI Business School in Brussels and Shanghai have been ranked 21st equal overall, and top in two sub-categories in the 2024 QS EMBA rankings for Joint Programmes - Executive MBA programmes offered across more than one business school.

Courses at UBI, whose academic partnership with MDX began in 2012, rose five places on last year in the ratings produced by leading student insights and guidance company QS. In the same ranking, UBI/MDX came number one for Career Outcome (which relates principally to salary difference before and after an MBA), and also for Diversity.

Executive MBA Joint Programmes offer students “the opportunity to leverage the strengths of several institutions and tap into extensive alumni networks,” says QS. 

UBI alumni include senior directors for Latin American operations at Starr Insurance and Adidas; legal specialists at ArcelorMittal and AmTrust International; a government minister in Turkey; and the chief-of-staff at Burnley Football Club. UBI alumnus Gerald Aluka, who comes from an agricultural region of Nigeria and completed his MBA under challenging circumstances, has gone back to his village to develop a publishing company focused on African stories, Griots Lounge, and to support local schools, pupils and small enterprises.

UBI had already in last year’s QS EMBA rankings achieved a five star (Excellent) overall rating and five stars for Employability, Teaching and Online Learning.

Dr Maria Altamira SFHEA, Director of Postgraduate Studies and International Development at UBI, said: “This achievement shows the distinctiveness and quality of our teaching to enhance the career development of the working professionals in our MBA. It also demonstrates the closeness of our alignment with MDX in celebrating diversity, and fostering good citizenship, open minds, and our graduates’ values”.

Gurdip Binning, Director of International Recruitment and Academic Partnerships at MDX said: “This fantastic result is testament to our long-standing partnership in delivering the EMBA programme, reflecting a shared vision of empowering leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of today's global business environment. 

“We are proud of what we have achieved and excited about the future as we continue to expand and enrich this collaboration”.