FT top worldwide MBA schools

The FT (Financial Times) annually carries out a survey of MBA schools based on their full time MBA courses. While The following rankings are taken from the Financial Times (FT) research into MBA courses published in the FT in January 2001 and covers all 100 schools featured in the research. The research is based on full time courses and while percentage increase in salary for graduates is the biggest single determinant of ranking it also takes into account internationality, research ratings, etc.

The first column gives this years rankings, the second last years rankings. In brackets is the country the school is based in and the final number is the aggregate score given by the FT. The ** in last year's ranking column indicates a new entry to the rankings.


1     2   University of Pennsylvania: Wharton   (US)  
2     1   Harvard Business School   (US)  
3     3   Stanford University GSB   (US)  
4     6   University of Chicago GSB   (US)  
5     5   Columbia University GSB   (US)  
6     4   MIT: Sloan   (US)  
7     9   Insead   (France)  
8     8   London Business School   (UK)  
9     7   Northwestern University: Kellogg   (US)  
10   13 New York University: Stern   (US)  
11   11 IMD   (Switz.)  
12   14 University of California at Los Angeles: Anderson   (US)  
13   15 Dartmouth College: Tuck   (US)  
14   12 University of California at Berkeley: Haas   (US)  
15   10 Cornell University: Johnson   (US)  
16   16 University of Michigan Business School   (US)  
17   21 Carnegie Mellon University   (US)  
18   17 Duke University: Fuqua   (US)  
19   19 University of Western Ontario: Ivey   (Canada)
20   18 Yale School of Management   (US)
21   23 University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler   (US)
22   19 University of Virginia: Darden   (US)
23   31 University of Maryland: Smith   (US)
24   25 Iese   (Spain)   53.1
=     32 University of Texas at Austin   (US)
=     27 Vanderbilt University: Owen   (US)
27   29 Rotterdam School of Management   (Netherlands)
28   35 Emory University: Goizueta   (US)
29   28 Georgetown University: McDonough   (US)
=     33 University of Rochester: Simon   (US)
31   24 Instituto de Empresa   (Spain)
32   ** University of Southern California: Marshall   (US)
33   26 Washington University: Olin   (US)
34   ** University of Oxford: Said   (UK)
35   45 York University: Schulich   (Canada)
36   43 Manchester Business School   (UK)
37   49 McGill University   (Canada)
38   22 University of California at Irvine GSB   (US)
39   48 SDA Bocconi   (Italy)
40   59 Warwick Business School   (UK)
41   35 Cranfield School of Management   (UK)
42   65 Australian Graduate School of Management   (Australia)
=     29 Indiana University: Kelley   (US)
=     38 Purdue University: Krannert   (US)
45   34 University of South Carolina: Moore   (US)
46   41 University of Toronto: Rotman   (Canada)
47   47 Southern Methodist University: Cox   (US)
48   70 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   (China)
=     ** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   (US)
50   37 Edinburgh University Management School   (UK)
51   43 Arizona State University   (US)
52   50 HEC   (France)
53   52 Babson College: FW Olin   (US)
=     40 Rice University: Jones   (US)
55   45 Thunderbird   (US)
=     56 Wake Forest University: Babcock   (US)
57   62 University of Iowa: Tippie   (US)
58   56 Melbourne Business School   (Australia)
59   ** The University of British Columbia   (Canada)
60   41 University College Dublin: Michael Smurfit   (Eire)
61   68 ESCP-EAP   (France)
=     ** University of Minnesota: Carlson   (US)
63   50 University of Wisconsin-Madison   (US)
64   74 Esade   (Spain)
=     54 Imperial College Management School   (UK)
66   ** Tulane University:Freeman   (US)
67   ** IEP   (France)
=     ** Texas A & M   (US)
=     ** Theseus International Management Institute   (France)
70   73 Universiteit Nyenrode   (Netherlands)
=     59 University of Georgia: Terry   (US)
72   69 University of Pittsburgh: Katz   (US)
73   66 City University Business School   (UK)
=     64 University of Notre Dame   (US)
75   71 Marriott School at Brigham Young University   (US)
76   56 Case Western Reserve: Weatherhead   (US)
77   55 Michigan State University: Broad   (US)
=     39 Pennsylvania State University: Smeal   (US)
79   ** University of Arizona: Eller   (US)
80   ** McMaster University: DeGroote   (Canada)
81   52 Ashridge Management College   (UK)
82   75 ITESM: Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico)
=     ** Nottingham University Business School   (UK)
84   67 The College of William & Mary   (US)
85   ** Strathclyde Graduate School of Business   (UK)
=     72 University of Bradford Management Centre   (UK)
na   na Nimbas   (Netherlands)  
87   ** Queen's School of Business   (Canada)
88   ** Leeds University Business School   (UK)
89   ** National University of Singapore (Singapore)
90   63 Lancaster University Management School   (UK)
91   ** ENPC School of International Management   (France)
92   ** University of Otago (New Zealand)
93   ** EM Lyon   (France)
94   ** Ipade (Mexico)
95   ** University of Alberta   (Canada)
96   ** University of Bath School of Management   (UK)
97   ** Trinity College Dublin   (Eire)
98   ** Concordia University   (Canada)
99   ** Coppead (Brazil)
100 ** Norwegian School of Management (Norway)





You can also have a look at the rankings for last year for European schools from the Financial Times 2000 survey, on the page here FT 2000 MBA RANKINGS