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Among Europe’s Best Among Europe’s Best

International competition keeps us on our toes and helps us improve. NHH has been on the Financial Times’ list of Europe’s best business schools since 2005.

The Financial Times Ranking

The Financial Times (FT) conducts five annual sub-rankings of different study programmes offered at European business schools.

At the end of the year, the sub-rankings are combined into a main ranking, the European Business Schools ranking.

It is up to the institutions to choose which study programmes to submit.

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NHH is also Norway’s only CEMS member. FT has ranked the CEMS Master’s in International Management among the best in the world several times.

Read more about CEMS MIM at NHH

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Study programmes

• Master's programmes
• Master in Accounting and Auditing
• PhD Programme
• NHH Executive – Executive Education from the Norwegian School of Economics

Facts about The Financial Times Ranking

The five sub-rankings on which FT's main ranking is based are (weighting in brackets):

• Global MBA (25 per cent)
• Executive Education Open Programmes (12,5 per cent)
• Executive Education Custom Programmes (12,5 per cent)
• Masters in Management (25 per cent)
• Executive MBA (25 per cent)

Read more at the Financial Times web page

NHH on European Business Schools

• 2025: 51 out of 100
• 2024: 53 out of 100
• 2023: 45 out of 90
• 2022: 45 out of 95
• 2021: 55 out of 95
• 2020: 62 out of 90
• 2019: 39 out of 95
• 2018: 39 out of 95
• 2017: 35 out of 95
• 2016: 38 out of 90
• 2015: 40 out of 85
• 2014: 38 out of 80
• 2013: 46 out of 80
• 2012: 44 out of 80
• 2011: 44 out of 75