Financial Times has recently rolled out its 2024 MBA Rankings all over the world. The top MBA business schools like Wharton School, Insead, Harvard Business School, NYU Stern, SDA Bocconi School of management among other institutions are included in the list. Wharton School returns to the top of the list with rank #1, despite the fact that it was not even included in the list in 2023, followed by Insead at #2 and Columbia Business School at #3.
Looking at the ranking trends over the years Harvard School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business saw a major downward trend in the Financial Times 2024 MBA Rankings with ranks #11 and #23 respectively. Previously both of these business school have ranked at #4 in the year 2023.
Financial Times 2024 Rankings: 50 Top MBA Schools in the World
The following table shows the top 50 universities ranked as the top MBA Colleges in the World by Financial Times in 2024. The Table also includes the ranking trends over the 5 years, from 2019-2024:
| 2024 Rank | School | 2023 Rank | Y-O-Y Change | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | Five-Year Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton School | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 4 | +3 |
| 2 | Insead | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 |
| 3 | Columbia Business School | 1 | -2 | 2 | – | 8 | 9 | +6 |
| 3 | SDA Bocconi School of Management | 6 | +3 | 13 | 12 | 29 | 31 | +28 |
| 5 | IESE Business School | 3 | -2 | 10 | 4 | 13 | 12 | +7 |
| 6 | Kellogg School of Management | 9 | +3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 14 | +8 |
| 6 | MIT: Sloan | 11 | +5 | 11 | – | 6 | 8 | +2 |
| 8 | London Business School | 16 | +8 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -2 |
| 9 | Cornell University: Johnson | 8 | -1 | 17 | 15 | 23 | 27 | +18 |
| 10 | University of Chicago: Booth | 11 | +1 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 7 | -3 |
| 11 | Harvard Business School | 4 | -7 | 3 | – | 1 | 2 | -9 |
| 12 | HEC Paris | 17 | +5 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 19 | +7 |
| 12 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | 15 | +3 | 18 | 10 | 16 | 15 | +3 |
| 14 | Duke University's Fuqua School of Business | 11 | -3 | 19 | 9 | 16 | 19 | +5 |
| 15 | Yale School of Management | 10 | -5 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 11 | -4 |
| 16 | University of Virginia: Darden | 17 | +1 | 20 | 11 | 18 | 23 | +7 |
| 17 | Esade Business School | 30 | +13 | 34 | 20 | 24 | 21 | +4 |
| 18 | UCLA Anderson School of Management | 14 | -4 | 26 | – | 25 | 26 | +8 |
| 19 | University of California at Berkeley: Haas | 7 | -12 | 14 | – | 12 | 10 | -9 |
| 20 | IE Business School | 22 | +2 | 40 | 39 | 52 | 31 | +11 |
| 21 | New York University: Stern | 19 | -2 | 14 | 13 | 22 | 25 | +4 |
| 21 | Ceibs | 20 | -1 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 5 | -16 |
| 23 | Stanford Graduate School of Business | 4 | -19 | 6 | – | 3 | 1 | -22 |
| 24 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: College of Business | 23 | -1 | – | 64 | 47 | – | -24 |
| 25 | ESCP Business School | 27 | +2 | 52 | – | – | – | -25 |
| 26 | Oxford: Said Business School | 31 | +5 | 17 | 21 | 13 | 27 | +1 |
| 27 | National University of Singapore | 21 | -6 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 18 | -9 |
| 27 | Fudan | 32 | +5 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 42 | +15 |
| 29 | Cambridge Judge Business School | 22 | -7 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 13 | -16 |
| 30 | Washington Foster School of Business | 30 | – | 28 | 47 | 49 | 48 | +18 |
| 31 | Indian School of Business | 32 | +1 | 23 | 28 | 24 | 28 | -3 |
| 32 | Nanyang Technological University | 39 | +7 | 37 | 35 | 30 | 22 | -10 |
| 33 | Southern California Marshall Business School | 25 | -8 | 24 | 36 | 46 | 59 | +26 |
| 33 | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 49 | +16 | 27 | 31 | 35 | 40 | +7 |
| 35 | HKUST Business School | 36 | +1 | 22 | 19 | 18 | 14 | -21 |
| 36 | IMD- International Institute for Management Development | 28 | -8 | 19 | 25 | 22 | 24 | -12 |
| 37 | Peking University: Guanghua | 42 | +5 | NR | NR | NR | NR | — |
| 38 | Georgetown University- McDonough | 32 | -6 | 27 | 31 | 39 | 30 | -8 |
| 39 | Imperial College Business School | 34 | -5 | 44 | 55 | 39 | 51 | +12 |
| 40 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 80 | +40 | 87 | 100 | NR | NR | — |
| 41 | IIM-Ahmedabad | 62 | +21 | 48 | 61 | 47 | 31 | -10 |
| 42 | Rice University- Jones | 47 | +5 | 32 | 57 | 56 | 45 | +3 |
| 42 | Emory University- Goizueta | 45 | +3 | 50 | 47 | 38 | 47 | +5 |
| 44 | University of Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 46 | +2 | 40 | 47 | 37 | 44 | — |
| 45 | HKU Business School | 59 | +6 | 29 | 56 | 41 | 33 | -12 |
| 46 | Alliance Manchester Business School | 43 | -3 | 30 | 45 | 59 | 36 | -10 |
| 47 | IIM-Bangalore | 53 | +5 | 35 | 27 | 33 | 35 | -12 |
| 48 | University of North Carolina- Kenan-Flagler | 38 | -10 | 26 | 39 | 52 | 37 | -11 |
| 49 | Washington University- Olin | 29 | -20 | 25 | 44 | 54 | 50 | +1 |
| 49 | Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business | 55 | 6 | 62 | 53 | 60 | 54 | +5 |
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