NOVA is the European School that most improved in the Financial Times Ranking

The Financial Times ranked Nova School of Business and Economics in 39th place in the European Business School rankings. Nova is thus amongst the 40 best schools in Europe and, more importantly, was the school that most improved in 2011, moving up 34 places in the ranking.

The result of this “ranking of rankings” combines Nova Executive Education which was included in this year’s rankings, in the first time it has applied, the Nova Masters in Management, the first masters in management of a Portuguese school to ever show up in the rankings, and The Lisbon MBA Part Time.

This progress summarizes the strategy that the school has been implementing with the specific aim to become amongst the top schools in Europe, and it is notable that a public school in Portugal should have produced such strong performance in a period where our country and the European economies in general are facing particularly difficult challenges.

“This has been an exceptional year for NOVA and it is not by mere chance that we were the European school that most improved in the global ranking of schools” comments Professor José Ferreira Machado, Dean of NOVA SBE, for whom there are other reasons of pride since “This week, and as a result of being voted CEMS School of the Year, we will be hosting the Annual CEMS event which will bring to Lisbon 1800 people to participate in the graduation ceremony of the CEMS MIM students, from 27 business schools all over the world”.