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Global MBA Ranking 2018

Published

January 28 2018

Total Schools

101

Year

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		100	University of Bath School of Management
		100	Copenhagen Business School
		99	EMLyon Business School
		98	University of Strathclyde Business School
		97	University of San Diego School of Business
		96	Essec Business School
		94	University College Dublin: Smurfit
		94	WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
		93	University of Texas at Dallas: Jindal
		92	Leeds University Business School
		91	SMU: Cox
		90	Western University: Ivey
		89	Rutgers Business School
		88	ESMT Berlin
		86	University of Toronto: Rotman
		86	Boston University Questrom School of Business
		85	University of Minnesota: Carlson
		84	University of Connecticut School of Business
		83	University of Rochester: Simon Business School
		82	University of Pittsburgh: Katz
		81	Babson College: Olin
		80	The Lisbon MBA Catolica \| Nova
		78	McGill University: Desautels
		78	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
		77	University of Notre Dame: Mendoza
		75	Pennsylvania State University: Smeal
		75	Edhec Business School
		73	University of Edinburgh Business School
		73	Vanderbilt University: Owen
		72	Michigan State University: Broad
		71	Wisconsin School of Business
		70	Lancaster University Management School
		68	Brigham Young University: Marriott
		68	Ohio State University: Fisher
		67	Boston College: Carroll
		66	Melbourne Business School
		64	University of California at Irvine: Merage
		64	Durham University Business School
		63	AGSM at UNSW Business School
		61	Cranfield School of Management
		61	Mannheim Business School
		60	University of St Gallen
		59	University of Southern California: Marshall
		58	University of Florida: Warrington
		57	Indiana University: Kelley
		55	Purdue University: Krannert
		55	University of Maryland: Smith
		54	Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
		51	Imperial College Business School
		51	Arizona State University: WP Carey
		51	Sungkyunkwan University GSB
		50	Washington University: Olin
		49	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian
		48	University of Washington: Michael G Foster
		47	Emory University: Goizueta
		46	Bayes Business School (formerly Cass)
		45	Rice University: Jones
		44	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs
		43	CUHK Business School
		42	Fudan University School of Management
		41	Warwick Business School
		40	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper
		39	Renmin University of China Business School (RMBS)
		37	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
		37	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler
		36	Alliance Manchester Business School
		35	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
		34	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai
		33	HKU Business School
		32	University of Virginia: Darden
		31	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
		30	Georgetown University: McDonough
		29	SDA Bocconi School of Management
		28	Indian School of Business
		27	University of Oxford: Saïd
		26	University of Michigan: Ross
		25	UCLA Anderson School of Management
		24	International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
		23	New York University: Stern
		22	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore
		21	HEC Paris
		20	Esade Business School
		19	Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
		18	National University of Singapore Business School
		17	Cornell University: Johnson
		16	Dartmouth College: Tuck
		15	Yale School of Management
		14	HKUST Business School
		13	University of Cambridge: Judge
		12	Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
		11	Iese Business School
		10	University of California at Berkeley: Haas
		9	MIT: Sloan
		8	Ceibs
		7	Columbia Business School
		6	University of Chicago: Booth
		5	Harvard Business School
		4	London Business School
		3	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
		2	Insead
		1	Stanford Graduate School of Business

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 195 points separate the top programme, Stanford, from the school ranked number 100. The top 14 participants, down to HKUST Business School, form the top group of MBA providers. The second group, headed by Yale School of Management, spans schools ranked 15 to 44. Differences between schools are relatively small within this group. The 48 Schools within the third group headed by Rice University: Jones are similarly close together. The remaining 9 schools headed by University of Texas at Dallas: Jindal make up the fourth group.

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