Top MBA Colleges in the World - Ranking 2019

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 Stanford Graduate School of Business came in second this year. At number three is 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 sixth position in 2019.

Four MBA colleges from India feature in the top 100 this year. Indian School of Business ranked at 27 secures the top most position in the top Business Schools from India in this featured list. Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) and Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) secure the 29th, 49th and 95th positions respectively.

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 Insead 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.

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World's Top 100 MBA Colleges 2019

1. Stanford, Stanford (CA), United States
2. Harvard, Boston (MA), United States
3. Penn (Wharton), Philadelphia (PA), United States
4. London Business School, London, United Kingdom
5. MIT (Sloan), Cambridge (MA), United States
6. INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
7. HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
8. Chicago (Booth), Chicago (IL), United States
9. IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
10. Columbia, New York (NY), United States
11. UCLA (Anderson), Los Angeles (CA), United States
12. Oxford (Said), Oxford, United Kingdom
13. ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
14. Northwestern (Kellogg), Evanston (IL), United States
15. Michigan (Ross), Ann Arbor (MI), United States
16. Yale, New Haven (CT), United States
17. UC Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley (CA), United States
18. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
19. Imperial, London, United Kingdom
20. Duke (Fuqua), Durham (NC), United States
21. Cambridge (Judge), Cambridge, United Kingdom
22. NYU (Stern), New York (NY), United States
23. SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy
24. IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
25. CEIBS, Shanghai, China
26. ESSEC, Paris, France
27. Erasmus (RSM), Rotterdam, Netherlands
28. Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
29. Texas (McCombs), Austin (TX), United States
30. USC (Marshall), Los Angeles (CA), United States
31. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
32. Boston (Questrom), Boston (MA), United States
33. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
34. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Pittsburgh (PA), United States
35. EDHEC, Nice, France
36. Indiana (Kelley), Bloomington (IN), United States
37. Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
38. Cornell (Johnson), Ithaca (NY), United States
39. UNSW (AGSM), Sydney, Australia
40. NUS, Singapore, Singapore
41. Dartmouth (Tuck), Hanover (NH), United States
42. Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
43. Toronto (Rotman), Toronto (ON), Canada
44. Cranfield, Cranfield, United Kingdom
45. Vlerick, Brussels, Belgium
46. St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
47. Manchester (Alliance), Manchester, United Kingdom
48. Emory (Goizueta), Atlanta (GA), United States
49. IIM Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
50. Virginia (Darden), Charlottesville (VA), United States
51. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill (NC), United States
52. Nanyang, Singapore, Singapore
53. Babson College (Olin), Babson Park (MA), United States
54. HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
55. Vanderbilt (Owen), Nashville (TN), United States
56. Illinois (Gies), Champaign (IL), United States
57. Minnesota (Carlson), Minneapolis (MN), United States
58. Michigan State (Eli Broad), East Lansing (MI), United States
59. Georgetown (McDonough), Washington (DC), United States
60. McGill (Desautels), Montreal (QC), Canada
61. Washington (Foster), Seattle (WA), United States
62. Western (Ivey), London (ON), Canada
63. Texas A&M (Mays), College Station (TX), United States
64. CUHK Business School, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
65. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany
66. Georgia Tech (Scheller), Atlanta (GA), United States
67. Florida (Hough), Gainesville (FL), United States
68. Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
69. Washington (Olin), St Louis (MO), United States
70. WHU (Otto Beisheim), Dusseldorf, Germany
71. IIM Bangalore, Bangalore, India
72. Purdue (Krannert), West Lafayette (IN), United States
73. Penn State (Smeal), University Park (PA), United States
74. UCD (Smurfit), Dublin, Ireland
75. Rice (Jones), Houston (TX), United States
76. York (Schulich), Toronto (ON), Canada
77. EMLyon, Lyon, France
78. Arizona State (Carey), Tempe (AZ), United States
79. EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico
80. Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
81. Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
82. The Lisbon MBA, Lisbon, Portugal
83. UC Davis, Davis (CA), United States
84. Ohio State (Fisher), Columbus (OH), United States
85. Queen's (Smith), Kingston (ON), Canada
86. University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
87. Monash, Melbourne, Australia
88. UT Dallas (Naveen), Dallas (TX), United States
89. Notre Dame (Mendoza), Notre Dame (IN), United States
90. City (Cass), London, United Kingdom
91. Boston College (Caroll), Chestnut Hill (MA), United States
92. Wisconsin, Madison (WI), United States
93. Georgia (Terry), Atlanta (GA), United States
94. ESMT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
95. Rutgers, Newark (NJ), United States
96. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
97. "INCAE Business School, Alajuela
98. Managua, Costa Rica"
99. UC Irvine (Merage), Irvine (CA), United States
100. 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.

1. Weighted salary
   
2. Salary increase
   
3. Value for money
   
4. Career progress
   
5. Aims achieved
   
6. Careers service
   
7. Employed at three months
   
8. Alumni recommend
   
9. Female faculty
   
10. Female students
    
11. Women on board
    
12. International faculty
    
13. International students
    
14. International board
    
15. International mobility
    
16. International course experience
    
17. Languages
    
18. Faculty with doctorates
    
19. PhD graduates
    
20. 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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