Historical MBA Rankings
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Historical MBA Rankings
Rankings of MBA Programs and Schools
Ostensibly the objective (of Rankings) is to inform the market about the standing and repute of programs and Schools. Unfortunately the criteria for the rankings differ so much and frequently are not declared, so such rankings can be rather misleading. Thus – for example – a ranking of Schools based on recruiters’ opinions of the quality of their MBA output will be relevant for a School with a large full time program – but will say little about one which concentrates on part time, distance and executive programs. A ranking influenced by the average GMAT score of those entering the program will probably say less about programs outside of the USA. The ranking of AACSB programs will ignore most non American programs. Most major Business Schools and most major programs will appear in the top league on some ranking at some time or another. That’s probably a better indicator of the standing of the School than any one ‘league table’ since the diversity of Schools and programs now is so large – that no single method of ranking will do justice to all types.
Depite their weaknesses, rankings are a fact of life in the management/business education world. They are published in all manner of publications in most parts of the world – and prospective MBA program participants want to know what they say about the standing, reputation, quality etc of either Schools or their Programs. Unfortunately most published rankings deal with American Schools and most take a broad based approach. There are relatively few which are specfic to other countries/regions or deal with specific aspects or types of program. However below we summarize some of the recent ones. We suggest that you look at them all – and don’t attach particular importance to any-one of them. Just get an overall impression.
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If you are aware of any recently published rankings that we do not feature here – let us have the details and we will try to add a summary.
The Financial Times (UK), Sept 8th 2003
Top Full time MBA programs in Europe
(Based on 22 criteria covering employment/salaries of graduates, nature of faculty, ‘internationalness’, opinions of allumni, and research rating)
1- Insead; 2- London Bus School; 3- IMD; 4- IESE; 5- Instituto Empressa; 6- Rotterdam; 7- Cambridge,Judge; 8- Warwick; 9- Oxford,Said; 10- SDA Bocconi; 11- Machester Bus School; 12- Cranfield; 13- HEC Paris; 14- City Univ,Cass; =15- Edinburgh; =15- Nyenrode; =17- Helsinki School of Econs; =17- Imperial; 19- ESCP-EAP; 20- ESADE; 21- Bradford/Nimbas; 22- Trinity Dublin; 23- Univ Coll Dublin,Smurfit; 24- Bath; 25- ENPC France; =26- Ashridge; =26- Durham; 28- Strathclyde; 29- Lancaster; 30- Theseus; 31- Henley; 32- Nottinhgam Univ; 33- Birmingham; 34- EM Lyon; 35- Norwegian School of Mgt
The Financial Times (UK), Jan 20th. 2003
Top 100 International Full Time MBA Programs
(Based on 20 criteria covering employment/salaries of graduates, nature of faculty, ‘internationalness’, opinions of allumni, and research rating)
1- Pennsylvania, Wharton; 2- Harvard; 3- Columbia; 4- Stanford; 5- Chicago; 6- INSEAD; 7- London B School; 8- New York, Stern; 9- Northwestern, Kellogg; 10- MIT, Sloan; 11- Dartmouth, Tuck; 12- Yale; 13- IMD; 14- Virginia, Darden; =15- Duke, Fuqua; =15- Calif Berkeley, Haas; 17- Georgetown, McDonough; 18- IESE; 19- Cornell, Johnson; 20- UCLA, Anderson; 21- Toronto, Rotman; 22- Western Ontario, Ivey; =23- Carnegie Mellon; =23- North Carolina, Kenan Flagler; 25- Michigan; =26- Instituto de Empressa; =26- York, Schulich; 28- Rotterdam; 29- Emory, Goizueta; 30- Cambridge, Judge; 31- S Calif, Marshall; 32- Texas Austin, McCombs; 33- Maryland, Smith; 34- Warwick, =35- Oxford, Said; =35- Vanderbilt, Owen; 37- McGill; 38- Rochester, Simon; 39- Ohio State, Fisher; =40- Queen’s; =40- Rice, Jones; =40- Calif Irvine; 43- Bocconi; 44- Manchester B School; =45- Indiana, Kelley; =45- S Carolina, Moore; 47- Purdue, Krannert; 48- Penn State, Smeale; =49- Illinois Urbana-Champaign; =49- Washington, Olin; 51- Brigham Young, Marriott; 52- Iowa, Tippie; 53- Southern Methodist, Cox; =54- Cranfield; =54- Notre Dame, Mendoza; 56- Coll of William and Mary; =57- Babson; =57- Thunderbird; 59- Hong Kong Sci and Tech; =60 Michigan State, Broad; =60- Virginia Tech, Pamplin; =62- Boston; =62- HEC; =64- Arizona State; =64- Case Western; =64- Melbourne; =64- Wake Forrest, Babcock; 68; City, Cass; =69- Aus Grad School; =69- Texas A & M, Mays; =69- Wisconsin-Madison; 72- Pittsburgh, Katz; =73- Edinburgh; =73- Nyenrode; =73- British Columbia; 76- Tulane, Freeman; 77- Chinese U of Hong Kong; =78- Helsinki S of Economics; =78- Imperial; =78- Georgia, Terry; 81- Minnesota, Carlson; 82- ESCP-EAP; =83- ESADE; =83- IPADE; 85- Bradford/NIMBAS; =86- Trinity Dublin; =86- Arizona, Eller; 88- IAE Argentina; 89- Dublin, Smurfit; 90- CEIBS; 91- Bath; 92- ENPC France; =93- Calgary; Haskayne; =93- Univ of Washington; =95- Ashridge; =95- Fordham; =95- Durham; 98- Strathclyde; 99- Coopwrad; 100- Alberta
ASIA INC (Hong Kong), Oct 2002
Top 25 Asian Business Schools (offering MBA programs)
(Based on 3 criteria- faculty resources, student quality and academic reputation)
1- Chinese Univ Hong Kong; 2- IIM Ahmedebad; 3- National Univ Singapore; 4- Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Tech; 5- Asia Instit of Mgt, Philippines; =6- Aust Grad School of Mgt; =6- Univ of Queensland; 8- Univ of Hong Kong; 9- IIM Bangalore; 10- Nanyang Tech Univ Singapore; =11- Melbourne Bus Sch; =11- IIM Calcutta; 13- CEIBS; 14- Chulalongkorn Univ Thailand, Sasin; =15- Chicago GBS Singapore; =15- City Univ Hong Kong; =17- Yonsai Univ S Korea; =17- IIM Lucknow; =17- Monash; 20- Int Univ Japan; =21- Macquarie; =21- Asia Inst of Tech Thailand; =23- Peking Univ; =23- National Inst of Devt and Admin Thailand; 25- Lahore UIniv of Mgt
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