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Steady at the top: LUSEM keeps its ranking

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One of the world’s most renowned rankings, the FT Masters in Management Ranking, was released today. The results show that LUSEM is the second highest ranked in Sweden and retains its global position at 47, the same as last year.

The FT Master’s in Management ranking covers programmes worldwide and is based on data from schools and alumni three years after graduation, including salaries, career goals, and diversity. In 2023, the methodology was adjusted to give less weight to salaries and more to factors such as alumni networks.

Many at LUSEM are, of course, proud of this achievement – not least the programme director of the MSc in Strategic management at LUSEM, Ulf Ramberg.

“That we remain in the global top 50 on this ranking is, of course, a tremendous source of pride for the programme’s students, faculty, and for LUSEM. To achieve such strong results on the ranking criteria with only around 50 students per year over nine months is truly impressive,” says Ulf Ramberg.

He continues:

“Index measures can be tricky to interpret, but it is worth noting that all programmes ranked higher than ours are longer—often more than twice as long—and usually enroll several hundred, sometimes even thousands of students. Being number one on the “nine-month list” and top three in sustainability is especially rewarding. To me, this says everything about the abilities of our students and the impact, relationship-building, focus, and quality that they, together with the programme’s faculty and LUSEM’s corporate connections, create in the classroom.”

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who has made this programme so successful – and to all the alumni who took part in the survey!


According to the Financial Times Masters in Management ranking, LUSEM is also ranked third among the top business schools worldwide for its integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics into core teaching.

Why so happy about a high ranking?

There are many ways of measuring success of education; one of them is to be evaluated and ranked. Being audited and receiving a good assessment brings many benefits such as good global reputation, more students applying to the programme and a larger network with international partners and alumni around the world. No doubt this position on the FT ranking brings joy to LUSEM!

The FT ranking of Master’s programmes in Management is open to master's programmes worldwide in the management field. The ranking is based on relative performance on a range of factors provided by schools and their alumni three years after they completed their studies, including graduate salaries, whether they achieved their study aims, and diversity. In line with other business qualifications ranked by the FT, the methodology was modified in 2023 to reduce the overall weight given to salaries and to increase the importance of other factors, including new assessments of the value of alumni networks.

There are approximately 15,000 business schools around the world and the vast majority provide education in management.

The Master’s programme in International Strategic Management at LUSEM started in 2016. LUSEM was the second higher education institution in Sweden to enter the Financial Times' prestigious list of management programmes.

Business school rankings – ft.com


Accreditations and rankings – lusem.lu.se