The FT Global MBA Rankings 2017: top 50 colleges

By Anonymous (not verified), 30 January, 2017

The London Business School (LBS) as the highest-ranked UK institution in the Financial Times’ Global MBA Rankings.

Cambridge’s Judge Business School (CJBS) rose five places to fifth in the rankings, while LBS dropped three places to sixth. It is the first time that LBS has not been the UK’s top-ranked institution and it is Cambridge’s first appearance in the top five.

For the second year in succession, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management – a historical heavyweight in the rankings – dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in a decade.

While the US continued to have strong representation in the top 10 – with half the ranked schools – its supremacy has decreased marginally in the upper tier. In the preceding two years, 70 per cent of the institutions in the top 10 were from the US.

Urs Peyer, dean of degree programmes at Insead, said that the institution was “humbled” to be ranked first again.

“Bringing together talented people from all over the world creates a unique learning and networking environment,” he said. “It is inspiring to see that the success of our alumni and impact of our research led to this outstanding result.”

CJBS’s rise in the rankings represents significant progress. As little as five years ago, the school was comfortably outside the top 20, in 26th place. While alumni may have only the 12th-highest average salary three years after graduation, at $164,000 (£131,180), graduates can expect to see an average salary increase of 107 per cent, which compares favourably with the schools ranked above it.

Christoph Loch, dean of the school, said that the ranking “reconfirms the determined focus on quality in our MBA programme – the quality of our students, their education, and the services and experience provided”.

“Yet while surveys are useful, they do not define our mission and strategy – which is to create a truly transformational experience for students, enabling and encouraging them to pursue careers that they can proudly look back on in 30 years and feel they have made a positive difference to their communities and the world,” he said. “Every year, I tell new students to ‘go out and do something extraordinary’.”

In response to ceding the top spot for UK schools, Gareth Howells, executive director of the MBA and master’s in finance at LBS, said that the institution was “extremely proud” of its programme.

He added that the FT’s rankings, which are based on 20 different criteria, have a “primary focus” on salary after graduation, while just over a fifth of 2016 LBS graduates went into technology start-ups.

“A number of our students choose the entrepreneurial route,” he added. “Our primary focus is on ensuring that our world-class, highly recommended MBA, allows our students to achieve their aims to work in a full range of sectors.”

The Financial Times’ Global MBA Rankings 2017 results: top 50

Rank in 2017	Rank in 2016	Three-year average rank	School name	Country	Weighted salary ($)	Salary percentage increase
1	1	2	Insead	France / Singapore	167,657	95
2	5	4	Stanford Graduate School of Business	US	195,322	93
3	4	3	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	181,634	92
4	2	2	Harvard Business School	US	178,113	97
5	10	9	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	164,462	107
6	3	4	London Business School	UK	154,567	92
7	6	6	Columbia Business School	US	172,624	103
8	12	11	IE Business School	Spain	168,923	108
9	8	9	University of Chicago: Booth	US	168,200	110
10	16	11	Iese Business School	Spain	147,596	133
11	17	13	Ceibs	China	159,870	155
12	11	12	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	164,326	96
=13	9	10	MIT: Sloan	US	165,716	88
=13	7	10	University of California at Berkeley: Haas	US	168,163	94
=15	14	14	HKUST Business School	China	149,538	103
=15	18	17	Yale School of Management	US	158,206	110
17	23	20	Esade Business School	Spain	146,127	116
18	22	21	Dartmouth College: Tuck	US	165,414	105
19	19	19	York University: Stern	US	150,859	102
20	15	17	HEC Paris	France	132,073	99
21	13	18	IMD	Switzerland	154,511	81
22	25	24	SDA Bocconi	Italy	129,064	120
23	20	22	University of Michigan: Ross	US	149,728	105
=24	21	22	Duke University: Fuqua	US	150,212	96
=24	29	31	Nanyang Business School	Singapore	126,218	138
26	32	30	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	131,760	136
=27	31	29	Cornell University: Johnson	US	150,531	115
=27	29	30	Indian School of Business	India	145,453	160
29	24	26	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	India	181,863	105
30	38	34	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	130,535	108
31	42	39	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	120,625	98
32	34	30	UCLA: Anderson	US	149,608	98
33	28	28	University of Oxford: Said	UK	139,235	87
34	39	43	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	123,330	172
35	27	31	University of Virginia: Darden	US	148,358	111
36	26	31	CUHK Business School	China	121,193	119
37	37	40	City University: Cass	UK	127,110	85
38	33	36	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	US	136,576	104
39	44	37	University of Hong Kong	China	123,546	109
40	44	42	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	135,711	105
41	49	47	University of Washington: Foster	US	130,042	97
42	35	42	Lancaster University Management School	UK	114,220	101
43	41	41	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	US	131,250	105
44	46	43	Warwick Business School	UK	112,702	74
45	35	38	Imperial College Business School	UK	112,865	72
46	47	44	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	US	137,944	95
47	54	54	Indiana University: Kelley	US	127,346	103
48	52	53	University of Southern California: Marshall	US	135,199	95
=49	56	58	Macquarie Graduate School of Management	Australia	131,488	75
=49	62	64	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	India	152,000	96