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Global MBA Ranking 2016

Published

January 24 2016

Total Schools

101

Year

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		98	University of Edinburgh Business School
		98	Leeds University Business School
		98	University of Bath School of Management
		98	University of Pittsburgh: Katz
		96	University of British Columbia: Sauder
		96	University of Connecticut School of Business
		94	University of Iowa: Tippie
		94	Grenoble Ecole de Management
		93	Queen's University: Smith
		92	Birmingham Business School
		91	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
		90	Babson College: Olin
		89	Pennsylvania State University: Smeal
		88	Western University: Ivey
		87	Melbourne Business School
		86	University of Rochester: Simon Business School
		85	McGill University: Desautels
		84	Edhec Business School
		83	Incae Business School
		80	Ipade Business School
		80	Brigham Young University: Marriott
		80	Washington University: Olin
		79	University College Dublin: Smurfit
		78	George Washington University
		76	UCT Graduate School of Business
		76	University of Notre Dame: Mendoza
		75	Ohio State University: Fisher
		71	University of Minnesota: Carlson
		71	Vanderbilt University: Owen
		71	Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
		71	Boston University Questrom School of Business
		69	Boston College: Carroll
		69	Sungkyunkwan University GSB
		68	Wisconsin School of Business
		66	AGSM at UNSW Business School
		66	Durham University Business School
		65	Michigan State University: Broad
		64	ESMT Berlin
		63	University of Strathclyde Business School
		62	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
		60	University of Toronto: Rotman
		60	University of St Gallen
		59	University of San Diego School of Business
		57	Cranfield School of Management
		57	University of California at Irvine: Merage
		56	Macquarie Business School
		55	Emory University: Goizueta
		54	Indiana University: Kelley
		53	Rice University: Jones
		52	University of Southern California: Marshall
		51	University of Maryland: Smith
		49	University of Washington: Michael G Foster
		49	Mannheim Business School
		47	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs
		47	Fudan University School of Management
		46	Warwick Business School
		44	Georgetown University: McDonough
		44	HKU Business School
		43	Renmin University of China Business School (RMBS)
		42	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
		41	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler
		40	The Lisbon MBA Catolica \| Nova
		39	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai
		38	Alliance Manchester Business School
		37	Bayes Business School (formerly Cass)
		35	Imperial College Business School
		35	Lancaster University Management School
		34	UCLA Anderson School of Management
		33	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper
		32	National University of Singapore Business School
		31	Cornell University: Johnson
		29	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore
		29	Indian School of Business
		28	University of Oxford: Saïd
		27	University of Virginia: Darden
		26	CUHK Business School
		25	SDA Bocconi School of Management
		24	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
		23	Esade Business School
		22	Dartmouth College: Tuck
		21	Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
		20	University of Michigan: Ross
		19	New York University: Stern
		18	Yale School of Management
		17	Ceibs
		16	Iese Business School
		15	HEC Paris
		14	HKUST Business School
		13	International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
		12	IE Business School
		11	Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
		10	University of Cambridge: Judge
		9	MIT: Sloan
		8	University of Chicago: Booth
		7	University of California at Berkeley: Haas
		6	Columbia Business School
		5	Stanford Graduate School of Business
		4	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
		3	London Business School
		2	Harvard Business School
		1	Insead

Table notes

Although the headline ranking figures show changes in the data year to year, the pattern of clustering among the schools is equally significant. Some 180 points separate the top programme, Insead, from the schools ranked number 98. The top 13 participants, down to IMD, form the top group of MBA providers. The second group, headed by HKUST Business School, spans schools ranked 14 to 42. Differences between schools are relatively small within this group. The 49 Schools within the third group headed by Renmin University of China School of Business are similarly close together. The remaining 10 schools headed by Birmingham Business School make up the fourth group.

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