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In Switzerland, IMD, which always features amongst the top 5 European schools, has improved to 3rd, whilst University of St. Gallen has risen from 22nd to 18th. and they are joined by HEC Lausanne in the top 30.

The United Kingdom is always well-represented amongst recruiter’s choices and 2007 is no exception. Within the top 20 European schools are featured no less than 7 UK schools: Cambridge, CASS, Cranfield, LBS, Manchester, Oxford and Warwick. Ashridge, Imperial and Lancaster also appear within the top 30.

German business schools have fallen out of favor with recruiters in 2007. Although Mannheim has entered the top 30, and WHU-Otto Beisheim features 32nd in Europe and makes the top 100 globally, several German schools have dropped out - noticeably, HHL Leipzig, Gisma and SIMT.

It is several years now since renowned universities such as Oxford and Cambridge developed MBA programmes and this trend was followed across Europe at universities such as Mannheim, MIP Politecnico di Milano, Copenhagen and Stockholm School of Economics. These schools moved up the recruiter preference tables quite rapidly in recent years, doubtless profiting from the already existing name awareness of their universities with recruiters. With the exception of Copenhagen Business School (which came 33rd in Europe this year and missed out on a top 100 place because of the strong performances of several Asian schools), all these schools have continued to perform well in 2007. Oxford is up 9 places to 6th. SSE is up 3 places to 20th.

Recruiter's top 10 preferred schools in Europe are: INSEAD, London Business School, IMD, IE, IESE, Oxford, RSM, SDA Bocconi, HEC, ESADE.

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