MBA 2023 - Business school rankings from the Financial Times (2025)

Published

February 12 2023

Total Schools

100

Year


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 (2025)

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