Excelia Business School Reaches 40th Worldwide In Financial Times Ranking

The school ranked 40th worldwide and 12th among French schools in the 2026 customised executive education ranking, as Guillaume Pernoud, Director of Executive Education, Excelia Business School, highlighted client focused training and long term skills development.

Excelia Business School has moved up in the 2026 Financial Times worldwide Executive Education Custom ranking, reflecting the growing performance of its customised executive education courses and programmes.
In the latest edition, Excelia Business School ranked 40th worldwide, climbing three places from the previous year. It also placed 12th among the French schools featured in the ranking.

The result highlights the school’s model of developing programmes jointly with companies and responding to changes in professions, skills and organisational needs. Excelia Business School said the ranking affirms its growing reputation in the international market for bespoke executive training for organisations and leaders.
The Financial Times ranking places strong emphasis on feedback from client organisations, with their responses accounting for 80 percent of the final score. This makes Excelia Business School’s performance significant as it reflects how partner organisations assess the value of the training solutions developed with the school.

Excelia Business School also recorded notable positions across specific criteria. It ranked 24th worldwide in the Course follow up category, which evaluates the quality of long term support and guidance provided to teams. It placed 31st worldwide for Value for money, which reflects perceived return on investment, and 35th worldwide in New skills and learning, which measures skills development and training quality.
Guillaume Pernoud, Director of Executive Education, Excelia Business School, said, “These results highlight the school’s ability to develop customised courses and programmes that meet the tangible needs of companies: training that is useful, transformative, immediately applicable, and designed to keep pace, over the long term, with changes in professions, organisations, and skills. This recognition also reflects the commitment of the Executive Education Centre teams, who have worked diligently to offer high-impact courses and programmes that are closely aligned with industry needs.”

Excelia is a multidisciplinary higher education establishment of general interest operating under contract with the French State. It comprises Excelia Business School, Excelia Hotel and Tourism School, and Excelia Communication School. The institution educates around 6,800 students across four campuses and has an alumni network of 47,000 graduates.
Excelia holds labels, accreditations and certifications including EESPIG, EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA, UNWTO.TedQual and THTS in the field of tourism.

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