Global MBA Rankings 2018, US schools dominate top 20

Harvard sits atop the 232 schools included in the Global MBA Rankings 2018. The first-ever MBA program continues to stay relevant, regularly topping rankings and managing to stay ahead of the competition. US schools dominate the top 20, with 12 institutions featuring, though the performance of INSEAD (second) and HEC Paris (third) ensure France is the best-represented nation on the podium.

These rankings were compiled based on 172,107 responses to the Global Academic Survey

# RANK	UNIVERSITY	CITY	LOCATION

			Location search
1	Harvard	Boston (MA)
2	INSEAD	Fontainebleau Singapore
3	HEC Paris	Jouy-en-Josas
4	Stanford	Stanford (CA)
5	London Business School	London
6	Penn (Wharton)	Philadelphia (PA)
7	MIT (Sloan)	Cambridge (MA)
8	Columbia	New York (NY)
9	Oxford (Said)	Oxford
10	IE Business School	Madrid
11	UC Berkeley (Haas)	Berkeley (CA)
12	Chicago (Booth)	Chicago (IL)
13	UCLA (Anderson)	Los Angeles (CA)
14	Northwestern (Kellogg)	Evanston (IL)
15	Michigan (Ross)	Ann Arbor (MI)
16	Imperial	London
17	ESADE	Barcelona
18	Yale	New Haven (CT)
=19	Cambridge (Judge)	Cambridge
=19	NYU (Stern)	New York (NY)
21	IMD	Lausanne
22	SDA Bocconi	Milan
23	Duke (Fuqua)	Durham (NC)
24	IESE Business School	Barcelona
25	Erasmus (RSM)	Rotterdam
26	Copenhagen Business School	Copenhagen
27	ESSEC	Paris Singapore
28	CEIBS	Shanghai
29	EDHEC	Nice
30	Texas (McCombs)	Austin (TX)
31	Vlerick	Brussels
32	Boston (Questrom)	Boston (MA)
33	Indiana (Kelley)	Bloomington (IN)
34	Melbourne Business School	Melbourne
35	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	Pittsburgh (PA)
36	Cornell (Johnson)	Ithaca (NY)
37	USC (Marshall)	Los Angeles (CA)
38	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR
39	AGSM at UNSW	Sydney
40	Cranfield	Cranfield
41	Warwick	Coventry
42	NUS	Singapore
43	Toronto (Rotman)	Toronto (ON)
=44	Dartmouth (Tuck)	Hanover (NH)
=44	Mannheim	Mannheim
46	Virginia (Darden)	Charlottesville (VA)
47	Michigan State (Eli Broad)	East Lansing (MI)
48	Western (Ivey)	London (ON)
49	IIM Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad
50	Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)	Champaign (IL)
51	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	Chapel Hill (NC)
52	St. Gallen	St. Gallen
53	Emory (Goizueta)	Atlanta (GA)
54	Georgia Tech (Scheller)	Atlanta (GA)
55	Manchester (Alliance)	Manchester
56	HKUST	Hong Kong SAR
57	Babson College (Olin)	Babson Park (MA)
58	IIM Bangalore	Bangalore
59	Florida (Hough)	Gainesville (FL)
60	Ohio State (Fisher)	Columbus (OH)
61	Georgetown (McDonough)	Washington (DC)
62	Grenoble Ecole de Management	Grenoble
63	Purdue (Krannert)	West Lafayette (IN)
64	Washington (Foster)	Seattle (WA)
65	Vanderbilt (Owen)	Nashville (TN)
66	McGill (Desautels)	Montreal (QC)
67	Durham	Durham
68	CUHK Business School	Hong Kong SAR
69	Minnesota (Carlson)	Minneapolis (MN)
70	Penn State (Smeal)	University Park (PA)
71	WHU (Otto Beisheim)	Dusseldorf
=72	City (Cass)	London
=72	Nanyang	Singapore
74	Arizona State (Carey)	Tempe (AZ)
75	Frankfurt School of Finance & Management	Frankfurt
76	Texas A&M (Mays)	College Station (TX)
77	Rice (Jones)	Houston (TX)
78	The Lisbon MBA	Lisbon
79	University of Edinburgh Business school	Edinburgh
=80	UC Davis	Davis (CA)
=80	UCD (Smurfit)	Dublin
=82	Washington (Olin)	St Louis (MO)
=82	York (Schulich)	Toronto (ON)
84	EGADE Business School	Monterrey
=85	Strathclyde	Glasgow
=85	Wisconsin (Madison)	Madison (WI)
87	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Notre Dame (IN)
88	Queen’s (Smith)	Kingston (ON)
89	EMLyon	Lyon
90	Maryland (Smith)	College Park (MD)
91	UT Dallas (Naveen)	Richardson (TX)
92	Georgia (Terry)	Atlanta (GA)
93	Indian School of Business	Hyderabad
=94	HEC Montreal	Montreal (QC)
=94	INCAE Business School	Managua Alajuela
96	Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)	Boston (MA)
97	Lancaster	Lancaster
=98	George Washington	Washington (DC)
=98	Shanghai Jiao Tong (Antai)	Shanghai
100	SMU (Cox)	Dallas (TX)
101-110	Aston	Birmingham
101-110	ESMT Berlin	Berlin
101-110	Fordham (Gabelli)	New York (NY)
101-110	Liverpool Management School	Liverpool
101-110	MGSM Macquarie	Sydney
101-110	Politecnico di Milano	Milan
101-110	Rutgers Business School	Newark (NJ)
101-110	Stellenbosch	Cape Town (Bellville)
101-110	UC Irvine (Merage)	Irvine (CA)
101-110	University of Miami	Miami (FL)
111-120	American (Kogod)	Washington (DC)
111-120	Birmingham Business School	Birmingham
111-120	Boston College (Caroll)	Boston (MA)
111-120	Case Western (Weatherhead)	Cleveland (OH)
111-120	ESIC Business & Marketing School	Madrid
111-120	European Business School	Oestrich-Winkel
111-120	HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management	Leipzig
111-120	North Carolina State (Jenkins)	Raleigh (NC)
111-120	Rochester (Simon)	Rochester (NY)
111-120	South Carolina (Moore)	Columbia (SC)
111-120	UQ Business School	Brisbane
121-130	Amsterdam Business School	Amsterdam
121-130	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR
121-130	Connecticut (UCONN)	Storrs (CT)
121-130	IAE Business School	Buenos Aires
121-130	IIM Calcutta	Kolkata
121-130	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	Malibu (CA)
121-130	Trinity Business School, TCD	Dublin
121-130	UBC (Sauder)	Vancouver (BC)
121-130	UWA (Western Australia)	Perth
131-140	Baylor (Hankamer)	Waco (TX)
131-140	ESAN	Lima
131-140	International University of Monaco	Monte-Carlo
131-140	IPADE Business School	Mexico
131-140	NEOMA	Paris
131-140	Pittsburgh (Katz)	Pittsburgh (PA)
131-140	San Francisco (Masagung)	San Francisco (CA)
131-140	SBS Swiss Business School	Zurich
131-140	Temple (Fox)	Philadelphia (PA)
131-140	William & Mary (Mason)	Williamsburg (VA)
141-150	Alberta School of Business	Edmonton (AB)
141-150	Audencia	Nantes
141-150	Cape Town (GSB)	Cape Town
141-150	Colorado (Leeds)	Denver (CO)
141-150	Kingston	London
141-150	Nottingham Business School	Nottingham
141-150	University of San Diego	San Diego (CA)
141-150	SNU (Seoul)	Seoul
141-150	Texas Christian (Neely)	Fort Worth (TX)
141-150	Tulane (Freeman)	New Orleans (LA)
141-150	Waseda Business School	Tokyo
151-200	Arizona (Eller)	Tucson (AZ)
151-200	Athens University of Economics and Business	Athens
151-200	AUB (Suliman S. Olayan)	Beirut
151-200	Auburn (Harbert)	Auburn (AL)
151-200	Bath	Bath
151-200	Bentley (McCallum)	Waltham (MA)
151-200	Bond University	Gold Coast
151-200	Brigham Young (Marriott)	Provo (UT)
151-200	Business School Lausanne	Lausanne
151-200	Cincinnati (Lindner)	Cincinnati (OH)
151-200	Deakin	Melbourne
151-200	Denver (Daniels)	Denver (CO)
151-200	DePaul (Kellstadt)	Chicago (IL)
151-200	Drexel (LeBow)	Philadelphia (PA)
151-200	EADA Business School	Barcelona
151-200	EAE	Barcelona
151-200	EU Business School	Barcelona
151-200	Exeter	Exeter
151-200	Glasgow (Adam Smith)	Glasgow
151-200	Henley Business School	Henley-on-Thames
151-200	Houston (Bauer)	Houston (TX)
151-200	IESEG School of Management	Paris
151-200	Leeds University Business School	Leeds
151-200	Maastricht (MSM)	Maastricht
151-200	McMaster (DeGroote)	Hamitlon (ON)
151-200	Missouri (Trulaske)	Columbia (MO)
151-200	NUCB Business School	Nagoya
151-200	Oregon (Lundquist)	Eugene (OR)
151-200	Otago	Dunedin
151-200	Palermo	Buenos Aires
151-200	Porto Business School	Porto
151-200	RMIT University School of Business	Melbourne
151-200	Robert Gordon (Aberdeen)	Aberdeen
151-200	Sabanci University	Istanbul
151-200	Saint Mary’s (Sobey)	Halifax (NS)
151-200	San Diego State (Fowler)	San Diego (CA)
151-200	Sheffield	Sheffield
151-200	Simon Fraser (Beedie)	Vancouver (BC)
151-200	Syracuse (Whitman)	Syracuse (NY)
151-200	Texas Tech (Rawls)	Lubbock (TX)
151-200	Toulouse Business School	Toulouse
151-200	Tulsa (Collins)	Tulsa (OK)
151-200	UC San Diego (Rady)	San Diego (CA)
151-200	Universidad Adolfo Ibanez	Santiago
151-200	Universidad de Chile	Santiago
151-200	Utah (Eccles)	Salt Lake City (UT)
151-200	Victoria (Gustavson)	Victoria (BC)
151-200	Willamette (Atkinson)	Salem (OR)
151-200	Wollongong (Sydney)	Wollongong
201+	Alabama (Manderson)	Tuscaloosa (AL)
201+	ALBA Graduate Business School	Athens
201+	American University in Dubai	Dubai
201+	Arkansas (Walton)	Fayetteville (AR)
201+	Brandeis	Waltham (MA)
201+	California State Long Beach	Long Beach (CA)
201+	Chapman (Argyros)	Orange (CA)
201+	Clark	Worcester (MA)
201+	Doshisha	Kyoto
201+	FIA Business School	São Paulo
201+	Gonzaga	Spokane (WA)
201+	Hofstra (Zarb)	Hempstead (NY)
201+	Howard	Washington (DC)
201+	Kent Business School	Canterbury
201+	Kentucky (Gatton)	Lexington (KY)
201+	La Trobe Business School	Melbourne
201+	Loughborough	Loughborough
201+	LUISS University	Rome
201+	Newcastle	Newcastle
201+	Oregon State	Corvallis (OR)
201+	RIT (Saunders)	Rochester (NY)
201+	Ritsumeikan APU	Beppu
201+	Riverside (UCR)	Los Angeles (CA)
201+	S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research	Mumbai
201+	South Dakota (Beacom)	Vermillion (SD)
201+	Suffolk (Sawyer)	Boston (MA)
201+	Tampa (Sykes)	Tampa (FL)
201+	UMass Amherst (Isenberg)	Amherst (MA)
201+	Universidad EAFIT	Medellin
201+	University at Albany	Albany (NY)
201+	Victoria Graduate School of Business	Melbourne
201+	Wilfrid Laurier (Lazaridis)	Waterloo (ON)

The QS Global MBA Rankings 2018 incorporate multiple data sources. These data sources have been supplied by the business schools themselves, or have been taken from publicly available sources where this presented a plausible alternative

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