83 of the top 100 MBAs

Built for the world's best business schools.

The labour market has moved. Skills-based hiring, AI in daily work, and employer-anchored credentials have reshaped what a business school must deliver. 83 of the world's top 100 MBA programs already run on Canvas. See what it looks like for yours.

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Trusted by the world's leading business schools.

From MBA to microcredential.

Extend beyond the degree.

Canvas supports stackable short courses, executive programmes, and modular credentials alongside your full degree portfolio — on a single platform.

Credentials employers trust.

Parchment by Instructure lets you issue, manage, and verify digital badges and transcripts that learners carry and share across platforms and employers.

Grow with confidence.

Canvas Catalog gives your school a branded storefront to market, enroll, and manage professional learning — opening up new learner audiences and revenue lines.

Research Report

Building education for the lifelong learner

79% of educators say lifelong learning is a strategic priority. Most business schools don't have the platform to deliver it. This report explores what's holding them back — and what the right edtech foundation looks like.

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Built for every kind of business education.

• MBA & EMBA
• Executive education
• Microcredentials
• Professional learning

The platform the world's top MBAs choose.

9 of the world's top 10 MBA programs run on Canvas — built for rigorous, collaborative degree learning with the flexibility executive learners expect.

Deliver exec ed at scale.

Cranfield School of Management uses Canvas to deliver flexible, stackable online programmes to over 1,000 students, including executive and corporate clients.

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Credentials that employers actually use.

Parchment Digital Badges lets your school issue verifiable, portable credentials learners can share directly with employers — aligned to real skills, not just course completion.

Reach learners wherever they are.

Wharton Online uses Canvas and Canvas Catalog to deliver world-class professional education to 10,000+ learners globally, managed by a small team with full automation and templating.

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What business school leaders say.

To support our students, the technology has to be robust, reliable, and innovative. That's what Canvas is.

Mark Bramwell

CIO, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Instructure has its finger on the pulse of the EdTech trends of tomorrow. By partnering with them and rolling out Canvas LMS, EBS has been able to strengthen its position as a provider of teaching excellence and the business and law school of choice for tomorrow’s learner.

Prof. Raša Karapandza

Dean, EBS Business School

Canvas is praised for its intuitive interface, strong support, flexibility, integration capabilities, and the ability to share content, all of which are in line with the strategic direction of the University. Adopting Canvas by Instructure as our LMS will strengthen our commitment to lifelong learning.

Professor Danielle George

Associate Vice President Blended and Flexible Learning, University of Manchester

Frequently asked questions

We already have an LMS. Why would we switch?

Most business schools aren't switching because their current LMS has failed — they're switching because it was built for a different era. If your platform can't support online stackable programmes, employer-anchored credentials, or a consumer-grade enrollment experience for professionals, it's not serving your executive and lifelong learning ambitions. Cranfield School of Management described their previous LMS as a source of 'uncertainty and additional workload'. Canvas is what they, and 83 of the world's top 100 MBA programs, chose instead.

We want to grow executive education and microcredentials. Can Canvas support that?

Yes — and it's where Canvas performs best for business schools. Canvas supports short course and stackable programme design. Canvas Catalog gives you a branded storefront to market, sell, and manage enrolments directly. Parchment by Instructure issues verifiable digital badges and transcripts that learners can share with employers. Cranfield launched its global online stackable programmes on Canvas and welcomed over 1,000 students. Wharton Online uses Canvas and Canvas Catalog to reach 10,000+ learners globally with a small team.

We're a globally-ranked business school. What does Canvas offer that matches our standards?

The schools that demand the most from their technology tend to choose Canvas. 9 of the world's top 10 MBA programs run on it because it's stable, extensible, and built for the complexity of elite postgraduate and executive learning environments.

For MBA and EMBA participants, the experience matters as much as the content. Canvas delivers a clean, intuitive interface that works across devices and time zones — the standard your learners expect. As Oxford Saïd's CDIO Mark Bramwell put it, investment in technology signals that your institution is forward-thinking and willing to innovate, and that's part of what students weigh when they choose where to study.

For institutions with ambitions beyond the core degree, Canvas scales with you — connecting with 900+ tools and integrating with your existing systems without rebuilding your technology estate.

What does moving to Canvas actually look like?

Canvas integrates with your existing student information system and connects with 900+ third-party tools, so you're building on what you already have rather than starting from scratch. Oxford Saïd migrated 11 programmes and 85 modules for the start of a new academic year, and reported that IT support requests dropped 80% once Canvas was in place.

Every institution is different — the scale and complexity of your programmes shapes the approach. Our team works with you to scope the right path from day one, so there are no surprises once you're live.

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Case Studies

Cranfield University: Delivering online stackable programmes with Canvas

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Blogs

Lifelong learning is already the new normal - can your VLE deliver?

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Ebooks & Buyer’s Guides

The Future of Edtech: Building Education For The Lifelong Learner.

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83 of the world's top 100 MBA programs run on Canvas. See what that looks like for yours.

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