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Business School Rankings: Economist

This guide features a central place to find information about current and historical business school rankings. The guide was originally designed and developed by Bob Hebert of Wake Forest University.

Primary Economist Ranking

The Economist Global Fulltime MBA ranking is published annually in October.  The ranking began in 2002.

Fulltime MBA Global Ranking 2019

1. Chicago (Booth)

2. Harvard  
3. HEC Paris 
4. Northwestern (Kellogg) 
5. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 
6. UCLA (Anderson) 
7. UC-Berkeley (Haas) 
8. Stanford GSB 
9. Michigan (Ross) 
10. IESE 
11. Duke (Fuqua) 
12. Dartmouth (Tuck) 
13. SDA Bocconi 
14. Cornell (Johnson) 
15. Columbia 
16. Virginia (Darden) 
17. New York (Stern) 
18. Southern California (Marshall) 
19. MIT (Sloan) 
20. Washington (Foster) 
21. Yale SOM 
22. INSEAD 
23. Georgia Tech (Scheller) 
24. Warwick 
25. London Business School 
26. Texas-Austin (McCombs) 
27. Emory (Goizueta) 
28. Melbourne 
29. Vanderbilt (Owen) 
30. Florida (Warrington) 
31. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 
32. EDHEC 
33. Georgia (Terry) 
34. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 
35. IMD 
36. Indiana (Kelley) 
37. Rice (Jones) 
38. Hult 
39. Minnesota (Carlson) 
40. ESADE 
41. Washington Univ. (Olin) 
42. Arizona State (Carey) 
43. Penn State (Smeal) 
44. Mannheim 
45. Georgetown (McDonough) 
46. Wisconsin-Madison 
47. Brigham Young (Marriott) 
48. York (Schulich) 
49. Notre Dame (Mendoza) 
50. Ohio State (Fisher) 
51. EMLYON 
52. Cambridge (Judge) 
53. Pittsburgh (Katz) 
54. Queensland 
55. Southern Methodist (Cox) 
56. UC-Irvine (Merage) 
57. Rochester (Simon) 
58. Durham 
59. Cranfield 
60. National Univ. of Singapore 
61. UC-Davis 
62. Oxford (Said) 
63. Western (Ivey) 
64. Bath 
65. ESMT Berlin 
66. Edinburgh 
67. Univ. of Hong Kong 
68. Sun Yat-sen 
69. IE Business School 
70. Boston (Questrom) 
71. Monaco 
72. Michigan State (Broad) 
73. Nanyang 
74. Macquarie 
75. IIM-Ahmedabad 
76. WHU (Otto Beisheim) 
77. City (Cass) 
78. Leeds 
79. Tennessee (Haslam) 
80. Queen’s (Smith) 
81. HHL Leipzig 
82. Birmingham 
83. Grenoble Ecole de Management 
84. Nottingham 
85. George Washington 
86. Exeter 
87. Texas Christian (Neeley) 
88. Lancaster 
89. Purdue (Krannert) 
90. Univ. College Dublin 
91. Concordia (Molson) 
92. St. Gallen 
93. NC State (Poole) 
94. Int'l. Univ. of Japan 
95. Yonsei 
96. EADA 
97. ESSEC 
98. Liverpool 
99. Glasgow 
100. Strathclyde