Top Master's In Management Programs In 2026
Sep 16, 2026 · 25 min · 7 segments
Is the Master’s in Management actually worth it right now? And what can we glean from the FT’s recent MiM ranking? Covering all that matters in Business Education…
Sep 16, 2026 · 25 min · 7 segments
Is the Master’s in Management actually worth it right now? And what can we glean from the FT’s recent MiM ranking? Covering all that matters in Business Education…
Pola LemHost
Michelle BeldenGuest
Maria Wich-VilaGuest
So, for instance, we've got Nova School of Business and Economics in Portugal, which jumped to number two.
So one of the things that the FT ranking has always focused on more perhaps than other rankings is not simply what is that post-graduation salary level, but they really look at the delta, the difference.
What are those increases and how does that also compare with the cost of the program? So, for example, a program might graduate people who are making less when they graduate.
But if the program itself costs less in the first place, that might work in its favor in the way how the FT calculates this value for money type of type of element.
They also tend to they don't look at the salary of its graduates in absolute dollar or euro terms.
You might be earning less in U.S. dollars, but if you're living in a country where the cost of living is far lower, that also benefits you.
So little things like this, when they add up to when you think about all the things that the FT considers in its ranking, they do tend to sway and help bring out or to elevate programs internationally.
in places like Morocco, or perhaps these other programs that might be in slightly less expensive areas, or they might be letting in people who then have a higher jump when they graduate.
So for example, I would have to imagine, I mean, they don't release all of the data, but I can imagine if I were to see the data that we would see that a lot of people who enter INSEAD, perhaps they came, you know, they may have come from, if they did take some time off, usually the MIM is a pre-experience degree, but sometimes people might have a year or two of experience.
So if they came in and they were earning more money working in the EU, they then they might be making more money, but then that delta might be different.
So I do think that that's an interesting facet of the FT methodology that does help elevate schools that might not otherwise get the spotlight.
So, for instance, we've got Nova School of Business and Economics in Portugal, which jumped to number two.
So one of the things that the FT ranking has always focused on more perhaps than other rankings is not simply what is that post-graduation salary level, but they really look at the delta, the difference.
What are those increases and how does that also compare with the cost of the program? So, for example, a program might graduate people who are making less when they graduate.
But if the program itself costs less in the first place, that might work in its favor in the way how the FT calculates this value for money type of type of element.
They also tend to they don't look at the salary of its graduates in absolute dollar or euro terms.
You might be earning less in U.S. dollars, but if you're living in a country where the cost of living is far lower, that also benefits you.
So little things like this, when they add up to when you think about all the things that the FT considers in its ranking, they do tend to sway and help bring out or to elevate programs internationally.
in places like Morocco, or perhaps these other programs that might be in slightly less expensive areas, or they might be letting in people who then have a higher jump when they graduate.
So for example, I would have to imagine, I mean, they don't release all of the data, but I can imagine if I were to see the data that we would see that a lot of people who enter INSEAD, perhaps they came, you know, they may have come from, if they did take some time off, usually the MIM is a pre-experience degree, but sometimes people might have a year or two of experience.
So if they came in and they were earning more money working in the EU, they then they might be making more money, but then that delta might be different.
So I do think that that's an interesting facet of the FT methodology that does help elevate schools that might not otherwise get the spotlight.
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