GIBS is Africa's best business school - UK Financial Times

The Financial Times survey, which has been running for 13 years, presents a global benchmark for providers of executive education and GIBS has been ranked among the top business schools worldwide for nine consecutive years.

The customised ranking is compiled using data from two sets of online surveys - one for schools, another for clients. Business schools are asked for details of a number of top clients, who are then invited to complete an online survey about the school that nominated them. For GIBS, top clients comprising not only leading SA corporates but also top multinationals operating in the rest of Africa and abroad participated in the survey.

Among the best in the world

Professor Nick Binedell, dean of GIBS, said upon receiving the news of the rankings: "This is a tremendous achievement for GIBS and clearly places us among the best business schools in the world.

"We live by our ethos of aiming to improve the competitive performance of individuals and organisations significantly through business education and this accolade will drive us to continue to improve our programmes even further in line with the ever-changing economic landscape.

Taking the overall 43rd spot, GIBS also ranked 47th for Open Enrolment programmes that are open to all executives and 42nd for company-specific programmes tailor-made for companies. GIBS is the only South African and African business school to place in the top 50 schools worldwide.

Of the 13 scoring areas, GIBS can be particularly proud of being rated number one in the world for "future use", defined as whether the client would be using GIBS for future executive education.