The Dubai Knowledge Village has attracted many international business schools to set up campuses within the purpose-built facility on the edge of Dubai city. Business schools present include Hult Business School, Middlesex and Phoenix University. These are relatively new ventures in the region and have yet to establish extensive links with employers.

 

As a result employers are turning to some of the long established university-based business schools. American University in Cairo and Bar-llan University both achieved 20 or more employer votes within this research, having hardly figured in previous years. United Arab Emirates University in Dubai also featured enough employer votes to appear in the top 200.

A small cluster of business schools in South Africa also demonstrated prominence amongst international employers. These were Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Witwatersrand business schools.

There are many more business schools across the African continent, but management education is still in its infancy and it will take many years before these schools achieve real prominence on the international stage. Read less >