The Best Online MBA Options in Europe

Discover Europe's top online MBA programs. Learn about leading business schools like IE, Imperial, Durham, and MIP, offering flexible, high-quality digital education for career advancement.

The Best Online MBA Options In Europe

"The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself". And for legendary investor Warren Buffett, education is a more reliable path to wealth than Bitcoin. "The more you learn, the more you earn."

Since Covid-19 turned the world upside down last year, demand for business education has soared, both for the full-time MBA and a wide range of specialized master's programs. But with so many of us coping with remote work and schools themselves pushing for digital delivery of their courses, more people than ever are considering an online MBA or master's degree.

"The pandemic has changed people's perceptions and made them aware of the possibility of distance learning," says Federico Frattini, Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano. "We know that the future of work will be more agile and flexible and will rely much more on digital technologies. The same applies to the future of learning."

Thanks to people like Frattini, online learning at MIP Politcenico Di Milano is much more than just Zoom and PowerPoint slides. He and his colleagues have created one of the best digital offerings for business education with the i-Flex program. The Milanese institution was one of only seven schools outside the US whose digital alternative to the flagship MBA was listed in the Financial Times' 2021 Online MBA Ranking, published in March.

Alongside the business schools of Warwick, IE, Imperial and Durham, this year's ranking of top online MBA providers marks a significant success for the Italian institution, with the i-Flex climbing to 8th place.

Against the backdrop of the last 16 months, which saw a global pandemic, it was a boom year for the online MBA market. According to the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), applications increased by 43.5% in 2020.

What began over thirty years ago as a niche alternative from for-profit institutions such as the University of Phoenix and Kaplan University is rapidly becoming a focus for top-tier business schools in the US such as Michigan Ross, CMU Tepper, USC Marshall, Indiana Kelley and UNC Kenan Flagler.