MBA 2023 - Business school rankings from the Financial Times (2024)

Published

February 12 2023

Total Schools

100

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		100	Eada Business School Barcelona
		99	University of California at Davis
		98	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
		97	Birmingham Business School
		95	AGSM at UNSW Business School
		95	Babson College: Olin
		94	University College Dublin: Smurfit
		93	Vlerick Business School
		92	Brigham Young University: Marriott
		90	Tias Business School, Tilburg University
		90	Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
		89	Indian Institute of Management Indore
		88	Cranfield School of Management
		87	Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Business School
		86	Audencia
		85	The Lisbon MBA Catolica \| Nova
		84	Western University: Ivey
		83	McGill University: Desautels
		82	Sungkyunkwan University GSB
		81
		78	Durham University Business School
		78	University of Pittsburgh: Katz
		78	Northeastern University: D'Amore-McKim
		76	EMLyon Business School
		76	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
		75	Boston University Questrom School of Business
		74
		73	Boston College: Carroll
		71	University of Notre Dame: Mendoza
		71	Queen's University: Smith
		70	Essec Business School
		69	University of Massachusetts Amherst: Isenberg
		68	WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
		67	University of Toronto: Rotman
		66	Bayes Business School (formerly Cass)
		64	Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
		64	CUHK Business School
		63	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
		61	University of Georgia: Terry
		61	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian
		59	University of St Gallen
		59	University of Texas at Dallas: Jindal
		58	George Washington University
		57	University of Maryland: Smith
		56	Mannheim Business School
		55	Warwick Business School
		54	University of California at Irvine: Merage
		53	Arizona State University: WP Carey
		52	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
		51	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
		50	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs
		49	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper
		48	Fudan University School of Management
		47	Edhec Business School
		46	Alliance Manchester Business School
		45	University of Rochester: Simon Business School
		44	Vanderbilt University: Owen
		43	Michigan State University: Broad
		42	HKUST Business School
		41	HKU Business School
		40	University of Florida: Warrington
		39	Indian School of Business
		38	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore
		37	Imperial College Business School
		36	Emory University: Goizueta
		35	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler
		32	University of Washington: Michael G. Foster
		32	Georgetown University: McDonough
		32	IMD — International Institute for Management Development
		31	Washington University: Olin
		30	Esade Business School
		29	Rice University: Jones
		28	University of Oxford: Saïd
		27	ESCP Business School
		26	University of Michigan: Ross
		25	National University of Singapore Business School
		23	University of Cambridge: Judge
		23	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: College of Business
		22	IE Business School
		21	University of Southern California: Marshall
		20	Ceibs
		19	New York University: Stern
		17	University of Virginia: Darden
		17	HEC Paris
		16	London Business School
		15	Dartmouth College: Tuck
		14	UCLA Anderson School of Management
		11	University of Chicago: Booth
		11	Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
		11	MIT: Sloan
		10	Yale School of Management
		9	Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
		8	Cornell University: Johnson
		7	University of California at Berkeley: Haas
		6	SDA Bocconi School of Management
		4	Stanford Graduate School of Business
		4	Harvard Business School
		3	IESE Business School
		2	Insead
		1	Columbia Business School

Table notes

Footnotes: * KPMG reported on the results of obtaining evidence and applying specified audit procedures relating to selected survey data provided for the Financial Times MBA ranking for selected business schools. Enquiries about the assurance process can be made by contacting Lori Huber of KPMG at lahuber@kpmg.ca. The specified audit procedures were carried out between October and November 2022. The audit date published denotes the survey for which the specified audit precedures were conducted.

** Data in this column are for information only and are not used in the rankings.

‡ No school advisory board data available.

‡‡ No citizenship data available.

Please note the Covid pandemic has limited global travel which has an impact on the international course experience rank.

Some 154 points separate the top programme, at Columbia, from the school ranked 100. The schools are divided into four tiers. Business schools in tiers l and ll score above the average for the cohort, and tiers lll and lV are below it. The difference in scores between schools ranked consecutively is greater within tiers l and lV than in tiers ll and lll. Tier l includes 18 schools from Columbia to Virginia's Darden. Tier ll includes schools from New York's Stern, ranked 19, to Edhec at 47. Tier lll, headed by Fudan, spans schools ranked 48 to 81. Tier lV includes schools from Sungkyunkwan at 82 to Eada at 100.

MBA 2023 - Business school rankings from the Financial Times (2024)

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