Top MBA Colleges in the World

Here’s a list of the Top MBA colleges in the world for the year 2019 as per the latest rankings released by the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2019 in the month of January this year.

 

Instead of France and Singapore secured the top position while the Stanford Graduate School of Business came in second this year. At number three is the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) while Harvard Business School comes in 4th. University of Cambridge (Judge Business School) is ranked fifth this year, which is the first time the university has been ranked in the top five schools. This was also the first year that the London Business School has not featured in the top five universities, dropping to the sixth position in 2019.

The list includes B-schools that offer the traditional two year MBA (such as Harvard Business School, London Business School) as well as MBA institutes that offer the increasingly popular one year MBA (such as Instead and IMD, Switzerland). The video below highlights the top five b-schools in the world and the list below details the top 100 management schools globally.

World’s Top 100 MBA Colleges 2019

Stanford, Stanford (CA), United States
Harvard, Boston (MA), United States
Penn (Wharton), Philadelphia (PA), United States
London Business School, London, United Kingdom
MIT (Sloan), Cambridge (MA), United States
INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Chicago (Booth), Chicago (IL), United States
IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
Columbia, New York (NY), United States
UCLA (Anderson), Los Angeles (CA), United States
Oxford (Said), Oxford, United Kingdom
ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
Northwestern (Kellogg), Evanston (IL), United States
Michigan (Ross), Ann Arbor (MI), United States
Yale, New Haven (CT), United States
UC Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley (CA), United States
IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Imperial, London, United Kingdom
Duke (Fuqua), Durham (NC), United States
Cambridge (Judge), Cambridge, United Kingdom
NYU (Stern), New York (NY), United States
SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy
IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
CEIBS, Shanghai, China
ESSEC, Paris, France
Erasmus (RSM), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Texas (McCombs), Austin (TX), United States
USC (Marshall), Los Angeles (CA), United States
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Boston (Questrom), Boston (MA), United States
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Pittsburgh (PA), United States
EDHEC, Nice, France
Indiana (Kelley), Bloomington (IN), United States
Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Cornell (Johnson), Ithaca (NY), United States
UNSW (AGSM), Sydney, Australia
NUS, Singapore, Singapore
Dartmouth (Tuck), Hanover (NH), United States
Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Toronto (Rotman), Toronto (ON), Canada
Cranfield, Cranfield, United Kingdom
Vlerick, Brussels, Belgium
St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Manchester (Alliance), Manchester, United Kingdom
Emory (Goizueta), Atlanta (GA), United States
IIM Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
Virginia (Darden), Charlottesville (VA), United States
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill (NC), United States
Nanyang, Singapore, Singapore
Babson College (Olin), Babson Park (MA), United States
HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
Vanderbilt (Owen), Nashville (TN), United States
Illinois (Gies), Champaign (IL), United States
Minnesota (Carlson), Minneapolis (MN), United States
Michigan State (Eli Broad), East Lansing (MI), United States
Georgetown (McDonough), Washington (DC), United States
McGill (Desautels), Montreal (QC), Canada
Washington (Foster), Seattle (WA), United States
Western (Ivey), London (ON), Canada
Texas A&M (Mays), College Station (TX), United States
CUHK Business School, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany
Georgia Tech (Scheller), Atlanta (GA), United States
Florida (Hough), Gainesville (FL), United States
Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
Washington (Olin), St Louis (MO), United States
WHU (Otto Beisheim), Dusseldorf, Germany
IIM Bangalore, Bangalore, India
Purdue (Krannert), West Lafayette (IN), United States
Penn State (Smeal), University Park (PA), United States
UCD (Smurfit), Dublin, Ireland
Rice (Jones), Houston (TX), United States
York (Schulich), Toronto (ON), Canada
EMLyon, Lyon, France
Arizona State (Carey), Tempe (AZ), United States
EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico
Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
The Lisbon MBA, Lisbon, Portugal
UC Davis, Davis (CA), United States
Ohio State (Fisher), Columbus (OH), United States
Queen’s (Smith), Kingston (ON), Canada
University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Monash, Melbourne, Australia
UT Dallas (Naveen), Dallas (TX), United States
Notre Dame (Mendoza), Notre Dame (IN), United States
City (Cass), London, United Kingdom
Boston College (Caroll), Chestnut Hill (MA), United States
Wisconsin, Madison (WI), United States
Georgia (Terry), Atlanta (GA), United States
ESMT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rutgers, Newark (NJ), United States
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
“INCAE Business School, Alajuela
Managua, Costa Rica”
UC Irvine (Merage), Irvine (CA), United States
Rochester (Simon), Rochester (NY), United States

Criteria for Ranking of Management Colleges and Other Details

The programmes shortlisted for the FT rankings are evaluated across a wide range of 20 different criteria which includes the average starting salaries of graduates, diversity of staff, board members, students by gender, nationality, the MBA’s international reach, and value for money. The complete list of criteria is given below.

Weighted salary
Salary increase
Value for money
Career progress
Aims achieved
Careers service
Employed at three months
Alumni recommend
Female faculty
Female students
Women on board
International faculty
International students
International board
International mobility
International course experience
Languages
Faculty with doctorates
PhD graduates
FT research rank

For colleges to participate, a school should be mandatorily accredited by AACSB or Equis. It is also compulsory that the programme be running for at least four years. The school’s first class should have also graduated at least three years before the rankings were published. In the 2019 edition as many as 156 schools took part. Schools also needed to have a minimum of 20 percent of alumni reply to the survey sent by FT, with at least 20 complete responses.

While we await for the 2019 rankings for the Top MBA schools in the world, shortlisting universities that encourage international diversity and study abroad destinations that are perfect for international students should definitely be taken a look at.

*Source: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2017

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