Rome - After its top 10 positioning in the recent QS rankings of Elite Business Schools in Europe, SDA Bocconi School of Management received an international acknowledgement for the quality of its MBA programme, moving up three notches in the rankings for best full-time MBAs, as published by Financial Times. Bocconi is the only Italian school on the list of the 100 top programmes, and ranks 22nd in the world and 9th in Europe. "SDA Bocconi and its MBA are Italian excellence in the world," said Giuseppe Soda, dean of the Bocconi School of Management. "In a highly competitive international market of full-time programmes, continuing to improve year after year speaks of the university's excellence. Investing in internationalisation and consolidating the growth of the school is our contribution to the growth of human capital and management." The Financial Times ranking of full time MBAs is based on about 20 parameters: these range from students' assessments three years after getting a diploma to some of the data obtained directly from each of the schools. The SDA Bocconi programme differentiates itself from the others for mobility of its graduates (5th in the world), the value of international experiences (student exchanges, on-the-job experiences, etc) during the programme (10th in the world), and post-MBA salary increase (+120 percent). International mobility of graduates is evident as 55 percent find a job in a country other than the one they worked in before achieving the degree. The majority of job placements are in Italy (42 percent), followed by Europe (35 percent), the Asia Pacific area (8 percent) and the Middle East (6 percent). The international experiences offered by the school rely on a network of over 30 business school partners across the world (including India, the U.S., China, Brazil) and of companies offering internships in the four corners of the world. "The European model consists of top business schools concentrated in Spain, France, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Now, thanks to SDA Bocconi, Italy is gaining a cutting edge role, " explained Stefano Gatti, director of the full-time MBA at SDA Bocconi. "This brings the level of competition in Europe even higher and, at the same time, makes the system more attractive. This year's 103 students in the MBA programme come from 32 countries, of which 77 percent are nationalities other than Italian."