Three Italian Academies in the "stars ranking"

They are the 240 best business schools organizing full-time Mbas. A top ranking, the QS one, massively populated by American universities (almost a half), with the Top7 places disputed by Penn (Wharton) and Stanford, the famous Mit (Sloan) and Harvard, between Chicago (Booth), UC Berkeley (Haas) and Northwestern (Kellogg). Only 3 exceptions appear in the Top10: Insead (third place), with its campus in Singapore, in addition to the locations in Fontainebleau (France) and Abu Dhabi (and which offers the best full-time Mba in Asia); London Business School, ranked sixth; and Paris Hec, following on a wheel. In fact, US power aside, United Kingdom and France share the title of the second most represented study destination, with respectively 10 and 6 courses in the Top100. For Shanghai (Ceibs), Melbourne and Singapore (National University) remains little more than 25th, 26th and 32nd place.

In the maxi-ranking, there’s space also for our Sda Bocconi, Polytechnic of Milan, Luiss Business school. Sda Bocconi, despite earning a respectable place in the European Top10, in the QS world ranking is 23rd. And it is a prominent place, if we only think that, aiming to find another window of Italy, we can only to go down just below the hundredth place, where we find the Polytechnic, that in Europe stands as number 33. Luiss, on the other hand, which is 61st on the continental level, fluctuates between 151st and 200th position, still registering an increase compared to the previous surveys (in which it was over 201st place).

QS Global Ranking evaluates the parameter of full-time Mbas. But it is published in conjunction with other surveys, estimating rankings on areas such as Management Masters (for a total of 128 evaluated courses), Finance Master (155 courses overall), and Business Analytics (84) and Marketing (77) Masters. Flying over the foreign offer, let’s return to our three universities to find that, on the management side, the Bocconi’s international management science master reaches the eleventh place, while the Polytechnic of Milan, thanks to the international project management master, is 35th. On the finance front, Bocconi still placed 11th, with the Polytechnic on the 58th step. Polytechnic also reaches 48 per business analytics, with Luiss 51st. In marketing, on the other hand, the marketing management master assures PoliMi 45th place.

Signs of an Italy that is making its way, against everything and instead of everyone, and that invests in the training quality of some of the diamond tips of its academic system. The road is probably still long, but these signals must be fed with hope, confidence and action, if we want to carve out the best possible future for the talents of our Country System, bringing Italy back to the level of excellence reputation it deserves.