This new base will allow leading businesses and organisations to benefit better from the Ashridge portfolio of custom and open executive education programmes, organisation consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, virtual learning and qualification programmes.

Masdar’s futuristic, zero emission environment has been chosen specifically to mirror Ashridge’s drive to integrate sustainability within both its operations and its executive education and consulting activities. This is underpinned by Ashridge’s global research programmes into the future challenges facing organisations.

Ashridge has had a strong presence in the Middle East for over 10 years, but this is the first time that it has had a dedicated regional office. Its clients in the region include organisations in Government, the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Financial Services and Leisure sectors.

Rory Hendrikz, recently appointed as Director for Ashridge in the Middle East, who is based in the UAE, said: “Developing professional, confident, capable leaders is one of the biggest challenge facing governments and businesses in the region. Having worked with clients throughout the Gulf since 2001, it has never been more important for Ashridge to help meet this challenge and opportunity. Setting up our office here will enable Ashridge to deliver global expertise to the specific contexts and issues in the region.”

Ashridge has a distinctive approach to learning – interactive, practical and applied – combined with a thorough understanding of the current issues facing organisations. This has proven highly successful with global clients including organisations such as Sinopec, Bayer CropScience, Tetra Pak and Volvo. In the public sector, Ashridge has worked with six national Governments and in the UK, the Bank of England, City of London and the National Health Service.

Source: Ashridge.org.uk

This academy was first called ESCP-EAP which was set up with the aim to contribute actively to the development of a European economic culture. With five campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid and Turin, ESCP-EAP, it became the School of Management for Europe, the first in the continent and in the world. For instance, its present name was granted in 2008, reflecting their ambition to reaffirm their powerful European anchoring. It brought expertise in management education developed on the faculties mentioned forward and the sixty partner universities to the rest of the world, seizing thus the opportunities offered by globalization.

All the staff works hard to prepare its students for the professional environment by deploying the duel competency of constantly adapting to trends in the European employment market, and providing a reference point with recognizable values for all. Therefore, they look forward to enhance the mobility of ideas as well as the intangibility of their values. As a matter of fact, this multi campus school is showing efficiency, that is why it welcomes 4000 learners and a similar number of top-level executives each year. Beyond, it offers them a model of management which prepares them for the future respect of such values as creativity, history, culture, and diversity especially with the strong relationship that it has with the corporate world.

ESP Europe is very highly selective school that delivers refined management tutorial to the brightest students from all over the world, having advanced a courteous pedagogy in accordance with their broad range origins. Accordingly, it is well known of the diversity of a multicultural environment. In addition, it conducts imaginative research raising questions on topics from future options and derivatives to semiotics, published in top ranking academic journals, books and wide-spread opinion-leading press. Actually, it aims to contribute actively to the development of the European economy, the competitiveness of its business organizations and the know how along with the competence of its work force.

Absolutely, this prestigious business school provides programmes that equally take a European and international dimension into account to enable the analysis of practical and approach differences. It has also developed a world-wide network of academic partners to create study aside opportunities for ESCP Europe students and to foster research projects among faculty members from different countries. In reality, each student is allowed the opportunity to study abroad either via the European track (on ESCP Europe campuses) or by spending a semester at one of the 60 partner universities in 43 countries around the world with the possibility of earning a credit.

This old school defines a model for European management interacting intensively with the other regions of the world. That is why; it ranks internationally among the leaders.

Also, when you consider an online MBA, you will make important economies as tuition fees for such programs is more important than for others.

The questions are: Which type of MBA? Which school? What are the tuitions fees? Any accreditations?

In order to address these concerns and others, the Financial Times (FT) and through its Web site, has published in the Business education section a complete guide for MBA prospects including information and rankings about:

• Global MBA Rankings 2010
• European Business school rankings 2009
• EMBA rankings 2009
• Masters in management 2009
• Masters in Finance 2009 listing
• Executive Education – customized – 2009
• Executive Education – open – 2009
• Online MBA 2009 Listing

In the online MBA rankings, 42 of the top distance learning and online MBA providers are listed. Schools are listed by the number of enrolled distance learning MBA students. You may filter the table results by different kind of criteria such as: Country, Type of accreditation, Duration, blended or not, etc …

There are links to the Web sites of the different Business schools listed so that you can visit them and get more specific information that should help you taking the right decision.