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
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U.S. News |
BusinessWeek |
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
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•45%: Student Poll
•45%: Recruiters Survey
•10%: Compilation of Articles Written by Professors
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•Measures facets empirically irrelevant
•Favor more international schools
•Favor schools with high female ratio
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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 |
MBA Graduates’ Average Salary Increase (in USD) for First Post-MBA Job for Every Ranking Position Improvement
U.S. News
BusinessWeek
Financial Times
US NEWS RANKINGS
| 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 |
A composite index constructed from available MBA rankings for non-US MBA programs and their last 3 years’ fluctuation are used to rank them
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
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PQ |
Index |
FT |
Economist |
BW |
Forbes |
PQ |
Index |
FT |
Economist |
BW |
Forbes |
PQ |
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London Business School |
1 |
100 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
100 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
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INSEAD |
2 |
99.7 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
98.2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
2 |
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IMD |
3 |
98.4 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
1 |
3 |
96.7 |
9 |
8 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
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IE Business School |
4 |
97.2 |
5 |
11 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
93.9 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
20 |
4 |
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IESE Business School |
5 |
95.7 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
14 |
4 |
95.7 |
8 |
3 |
14 |
1 |
3 |
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Oxford (Said) |
9 |
90.0 |
11 |
31 |
7 |
6 |
7 |
91.1 |
5 |
11 |
6 |
22 |
8 |
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Cambridge (Judge) |
6 |
92.7 |
7 |
22 |
6 |
8 |
12 |
69.6 |
NR |
7 |
8 |
13 |
12 |
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HEC-Paris |
8 |
91.4 |
9 |
1 |
12 |
20 |
8 |
90.6 |
15 |
9 |
20 |
2 |
6 |
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ESADE |
10 |
89.1 |
10 |
7 |
19 |
18 |
6 |
92.2 |
6 |
10 |
18 |
6 |
7 |
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SDA Bocconi |
7 |
92.0 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
3 |
10 |
87.1 |
16 |
22 |
3 |
19 |
10 |
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HKUST |
11 |
88.4 |
6 |
28 |
18 |
11 |
9 |
87.3 |
18 |
4 |
11 |
26 |
17 |
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Cranfield School of gmt |
12 |
85.8 |
22 |
23 |
13 |
10 |
15 |
64.3 |
NR |
21 |
10 |
18 |
15 |
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CEIBS |
13 |
83.9 |
8 |
39 |
17 |
17 |
18 |
61.3 |
NR |
6 |
17 |
38 |
18 |
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National University Singapore |
14 |
82.0 |
15 |
45 |
22 |
9 |
21 |
58.5 |
NR |
20 |
9 |
43 |
22 |
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York (Schulich) |
15 |
78.3 |
31 |
16 |
24 |
21 |
11 |
84.6 |
13 |
28 |
21 |
8 |
9 |
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Warwick Business School |
16 |
74.1 |
12 |
12 |
NR |
7 |
13 |
65.3 |
NR |
14 |
7 |
24 |
16 |
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Manchester Business School |
17 |
67.0 |
20 |
NR |
26 |
13 |
14 |
64.8 |
19 |
15 |
13 |
NR |
13 |
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City University (Cass) |
18 |
66.8 |
22 |
23 |
13 |
10 |
16 |
62.5 |
NR |
23 |
16 |
17 |
14 |
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Rotterdam Business School |
19 |
63.5 |
18 |
27 |
25 |
NR |
17 |
61.5 |
17 |
18 |
NR |
25 |
19 |
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Lancaster School of Mgmt |
20 |
59.3 |
38 |
38 |
NR |
12 |
22 |
52.9 |
NR |
37 |
12 |
45 |
20 |
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Mannheim Business School |
21 |
57.0 |
30 |
13 |
16 |
NR |
19 |
60.1 |
12 |
36 |
NR |
16 |
23 |
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