Worldwide Rankings

Business schools are ranked by various groups and organizations. Business publications like the Financial Times and BusinessWeek are fond of publishing such listings.

Rankings are often based on surveys of experts, recruiters, students and others for their opinion on the best business schools. Rankings made by universities often base their results on the respective research outputs of business schools.

The Financial Times conducts a survey based on salaries and employment of those who have completed graduate business programs and non-degree executive education courses. Here is their ranking of the top 10 MBA business schools for 2009.

1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton (USA)
2. London Business School (UK)
3. Harvard Business School (USA)
4. Columbia Business School (USA)
5. Insead (France/Singapore)
6. Stanford University GSB (USA)
7. IE Business School (Spain)
8. Ceibs (China)
9. MIT Sloan School of Management (USA)
10. New York University: Stern (USA)

BusinessWeek publishes listings of the MBA business schools in Africa, Asia, Western Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Oceania and North America.

Here is a partial listing of MBA schools in these regions.

Africa
University of Stellenbosch

Asia
Asian Institute of Management
Asian Institute of Technology
CEIBS
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chulalongkorn
Hong Kong
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management – Calcutta
Indian Institute of Technology
International University of Japan
Lahore
Malaya
Nanyang Technological
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
National University of Singapore
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Universiti Putra Malaysia

Western Europe
Ashridge
Bradford
Brighton
Brunel
Cambridge
Copenhagen Business School
Cranfield
Dublin
E.M. LYON
EADA
EAE
EAE (International MBA)
EAE (MBA & Leisure Management)
EAE (MBA Entrepreneurship & Family Business)
EAE (MBA & Sports Management)
Edinburgh
ENPC
ESADE
ESCP – EAP
ESSEC
Exeter
Glamorgan
Glasgow
Global Business Academy
Grenoble Ecole de Management
HEC – Paris
Helsinki School of Economics
Henley
Heriot-Watt
HHL – Leipzig
Huron in London
IEDE
IESE
IMD
INSEAD
Instituto de Empresa
International Management Institute
Lancaster
Business School Lausanne
London Business School
Manchester Business School
Mannheim
NIMBAS
Nottingham
Universiteit Nyenrode
Oxford
Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Idec
Reims
Rotterdam
St. Gallen
SDA Bocconi
Stockholm School of Economics
Strathclyde Business School
Teesside
Theseus International
University College Dublin
Vlerick Leuven Gent
Warwick
West of England
WHU Koblenz

Latin America & Caribbean
Universidad del CEMA
ESAN
IAE
INCAE
Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico
IPADE
ITESM – Monterrey
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Sao Paulo
Universidad de Los Andes

Middle East
Cyprus International Institute of Management
Intercollege
Koc University

Oceania
Australian Graduate School of Management
Edith Cowan
Macquarie (MGSM)
Melbourne
Monash
Otago
Queensland Tech

Canada
Alberta
British Columbia
Calgary
Concordia
HEC – Montreal
McGill
McMaster
Ottawa
Queens
Sherbrooke
Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser (Global Asset and Wealth Management MBA)
Simon Fraser (Management of Technology MBA)
Toronto
Western Ontario
Wilfrid Laurier
York

USA
MID-ATLANTIC
American
Carnegie Mellon
Clarion of Pennsylvania
Delaware
Drexel
George Mason
George Washington
Georgetown
Howard
La Salle
Penn State
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Salisbury
Strayer Online
Temple
Virginia
Virginia Tech
William and Mary

MIDWEST
Akron
Ball State
Bowling Green State
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland State
DePaul
DeVry
Eastern Illinois
Illinois at Chicago
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Institute of Technology
Indiana
Indiana State
Iowa
Kansas State
Kent State
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Missouri – Columbia
Northwestern
Northwood
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Purdue
St. Louis
Washington U.
Western Michigan
Wisconsin – Madison

NORTHEAST
Albany
Binghamton
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis
Bridgeport
Buffalo
Canisius
Clark
Clarkson
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Fairfield
Fordham
Harvard
Hofstra
MIT
New Hampshire
New Jersey Institute of Technology
NYU
Northeastern
Pace
Rowan
Rutgers
Rutgers (MBA in Professional Accounting)
St. John’s
Simmons
Suffolk
SUNY New Paltz
Syracuse
Union
Yale

SOUTH
Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Duke
Embry-Riddle
Emory
Florida
Florida International
Florida State
Georgia
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Kentucky
Louisiana State
Louisiana Tech
Miami
Mississippi
Mississippi State
UNC Chapel-Hill
UNC Greensboro
North Carolina State
Rollins
South Carolina
Southern Mississippi
Tulane
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest

SOUTHWEST
Arizona
Arizona State
Baylor
Colorado at Boulder
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Phoenix Online
Regis
Rice
Southern Methodist
Stephen F. Austin
Texas – Pan American
Texas Tech
Thunderbird
Tulsa

WEST
Pepperdine
San Francisco State
San Jose State
Southern California
Southern California (IBEAR)
Weber State
Western Washington
Willamette