MBA Rankings

U.S. News is considered by deans of top tier MBA programs as the most valid MBA ranking due to its greater objectivity and reliability over time

U.S News Business Week Financial Times Others
Sample Size 27 lists since 1987 13 lists since 1988 15 rankings Insufficient
Methodology •Average GMAT
•Average GPA
•Average Starting Salary
•Survey of Recruiters and MBA Deans
•45%: Student Poll
•45%: Recruiters Survey
•10%: Compilation of Articles Written by Professors
•Measures facets empirically irrelevant
•Favor more international schools
•Favor schools with high female ratio
N/A
Analysis Less variance and thus greater reliability Student polls can be easily gamed Many facets measured uncorrelated to rankings Economist and Forbes excluded
Overall Finance Accounting Marketing Management Entrepreneurship Information Systems International Business Supply Chain/
Logistics
Production/
Operations
Non-Profit
Stanford GSB 1 5 5 3 2 2 10 9 7 5 2
Harvard HBS 2 11 15 4 1 4 7 8 4
Wharton 3 1 2 2 4 6 8 2 10 4
Booth 4 2 4 8 11 17 14
MIT Sloan 5 6 26 16 12 3 1 13 1 1
Kellogg 6 9 20 1 5 11 21 12 6 5
Berkeley Haas 7 7 15 10 8 5 14 7 17 3
Columbia GSB 8 4 12 7 9 22 5 9 6
Tuck 9 21 15 6
Darden 10 7
NYU Stern 11 3 8 9 15 16 7 6 9
Michigan Ross 11 9 7 6 3 7 13 4 9 3 6
Yale 13 26 13 23 1
Duke Fuqua 13 15 5 9 11 17 6
UCLA Anderson 15 8 20 12 17 17 15 13
Cornell Johnson 16 21 18 14 17 15
McCombs 17 1 11 18 8 5 15 15 15
UNC Kenan-Flager 18 21 10 15 22 17
Washington Olin 19 26 13
Tepper 20 17 2 6 2
Goizueta 21
Indiana Kelley 21 10 18 20 9 11 11
USC Marshall 25 9 21 10 10

MBA Graduates Averages Salary Increase (in USD) for First Post-MBA Job for Every Ranking Position Improvement

$908.03

US News

$605.27

Business week

$377.58

Financial times

Source: Dawn Iacobbuci – Senior Associate Dean of Vanderbilt Owen School of Management

A composite index constructed from available MBA rankings for non-US MBA programs and their last 3 years’ fluctuation are used to rank them

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PQ Index FT Economist BW Forbes
London Business School 1 100 1 3 4 4
INSEAD 2 99.7 2 5 5 2
IMD 3 98.4 4 6 9 1
IE Business School 4 97.2 5 11 2 5
IESE Business School 5 95.7 3 2 8 14
Oxford (Said) 9 90.0 11 31 7 6
Cambridge (Judge) 6 92.7 7 22 6 8
HEC-Paris 8 91.4 9 1 12 20
ESADE 10 89.1 10 7 19 18
SDA Bocconi 7 92.0 14 14 14 3
HKUST 11 88.4 6 28 18 11
Cranfield School of gmt 12 85.8 22 23 13 10
CEIBS 13 83.9 8 39 17 17
National University Singapore 14 82.0 15 45 22 9
York (Schulich) 14 78.3 31 16 24 21
Warwick Business School 16 74.1 12 12 NR 7
Manchester Business School 17 67.0 20 NR 26 13
City University (Cass) 18 66.8 22 23 13 10
Rotterdam Business School 19 63.5 18 27 25 NR
Lancaster School of Mgmt 20 59.3 38 38 NR 12
Mannheim Business School 21 57.0 30 13 16 NR
PQ Index FT Economist BW Forbes
London Business School 1 100 1 1 4 3
INSEAD 2 98.2 2 2 2 10
IMD 3 96.7 9 8 1 4
IE Business School 5 93.9 3 5 5 20
IESE Business School 4 95.7 8 3 14 1
Oxford (Said) 7 91.1 5 11 6 22
Cambridge (Judge) 12 69.6 NR 7 8 13
HEC-Paris 8 90.6 15 9 20 2
ESADE 6 92.2 6 10 18 6
SDA Bocconi 10 87.1 16 22 3 19
HKUST 9 87.3 18 4 11 26
Cranfield School of gmt 15 64.3 NR 21 10 18
CEIBS 18 61.3 NR 6 17 38
National University Singapore 21 58.5 NR 20 9 43
York (Schulich) 11 84.6 13 28 21 8
Warwick Business School 13 65.3 NR 14 7 24
Manchester Business School 14 64.8 19 15 13 NR
City University (Cass) 16 62.5 NR 23 16 17
Rotterdam Business School 17 61.5 17 18 NR 25
Lancaster School of Mgmt 22 52.9 NR 37 12 45
Mannheim Business School 19 60.1 12 36 NR 16
PQ
London Business School 1
INSEAD 2
IMD 5
IE Business School 4
IESE Business School 3
Oxford (Said) 8
Cambridge (Judge) 12
HEC-Paris 6
ESADE 7
SDA Bocconi 10
HKUST 17
Cranfield School of gmt 15
CEIBS 18
National University Singapore 22
York (Schulich) 9
Warwick Business School 16
Manchester Business School 13
City University (Cass) 14
Rotterdam Business School 19
Lancaster School of Mgmt 20
Mannheim Business School 23
Source: Poets and Quants, Toga Analysis
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