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
- Stanford, Stanford (CA), United States
- Harvard, Boston (MA), United States
- Penn (Wharton), Philadelphia (PA), United States
- London Business School, London, United Kingdom
- MIT (Sloan), Cambridge (MA), United States
- INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
- HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
- Chicago (Booth), Chicago (IL), United States
- IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
- Columbia, New York (NY), United States
- UCLA (Anderson), Los Angeles (CA), United States
- Oxford (Said), Oxford, United Kingdom
- ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
- Northwestern (Kellogg), Evanston (IL), United States
- Michigan (Ross), Ann Arbor (MI), United States
- Yale, New Haven (CT), United States
- UC Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley (CA), United States
- IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
- Imperial, London, United Kingdom
- Duke (Fuqua), Durham (NC), United States
- Cambridge (Judge), Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NYU (Stern), New York (NY), United States
- SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy
- IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
- CEIBS, Shanghai, China
- ESSEC, Paris, France
- Erasmus (RSM), Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Texas (McCombs), Austin (TX), United States
- USC (Marshall), Los Angeles (CA), United States
- Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Boston (Questrom), Boston (MA), United States
- University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
- Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Pittsburgh (PA), United States
- EDHEC, Nice, France
- Indiana (Kelley), Bloomington (IN), United States
- Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Cornell (Johnson), Ithaca (NY), United States
- UNSW (AGSM), Sydney, Australia
- NUS, Singapore, Singapore
- Dartmouth (Tuck), Hanover (NH), United States
- Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
- Toronto (Rotman), Toronto (ON), Canada
- Cranfield, Cranfield, United Kingdom
- Vlerick, Brussels, Belgium
- St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Manchester (Alliance), Manchester, United Kingdom
- Emory (Goizueta), Atlanta (GA), United States
- IIM Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
- Virginia (Darden), Charlottesville (VA), United States
- North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill (NC), United States
- Nanyang, Singapore, Singapore
- Babson College (Olin), Babson Park (MA), United States
- HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
- Vanderbilt (Owen), Nashville (TN), United States
- Illinois (Gies), Champaign (IL), United States
- Minnesota (Carlson), Minneapolis (MN), United States
- Michigan State (Eli Broad), East Lansing (MI), United States
- Georgetown (McDonough), Washington (DC), United States
- McGill (Desautels), Montreal (QC), Canada
- Washington (Foster), Seattle (WA), United States
- Western (Ivey), London (ON), Canada
- Texas A&M (Mays), College Station (TX), United States
- CUHK Business School, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany
- Georgia Tech (Scheller), Atlanta (GA), United States
- Florida (Hough), Gainesville (FL), United States
- Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
- Washington (Olin), St Louis (MO), United States
- WHU (Otto Beisheim), Dusseldorf, Germany
- IIM Bangalore, Bangalore, India
- Purdue (Krannert), West Lafayette (IN), United States
- Penn State (Smeal), University Park (PA), United States
- UCD (Smurfit), Dublin, Ireland
- Rice (Jones), Houston (TX), United States
- York (Schulich), Toronto (ON), Canada
- EMLyon, Lyon, France
- Arizona State (Carey), Tempe (AZ), United States
- EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico
- Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
- The Lisbon MBA, Lisbon, Portugal
- UC Davis, Davis (CA), United States
- Ohio State (Fisher), Columbus (OH), United States
- Queen's (Smith), Kingston (ON), Canada
- University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Monash, Melbourne, Australia
- UT Dallas (Naveen), Dallas (TX), United States
- Notre Dame (Mendoza), Notre Dame (IN), United States
- City (Cass), London, United Kingdom
- Boston College (Caroll), Chestnut Hill (MA), United States
- Wisconsin, Madison (WI), United States
- Georgia (Terry), Atlanta (GA), United States
- ESMT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Rutgers, Newark (NJ), United States
- Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- "INCAE Business School, Alajuela
- Managua, Costa Rica"
- UC Irvine (Merage), Irvine (CA), United States
- 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.
- Weighted salary
- Salary increase
- Value for money
- Career progress
- Aims achieved
- Careers service
- Employed at three months
- Alumni recommend
- Female faculty
- Female students
- Women on board
- International faculty
- International students
- International board
- International mobility
- International course experience
- Languages
- Faculty with doctorates
- PhD graduates
- 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.