New MBA Rankings from The Economist October 25, 2018

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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The Economist released its new rankings of MBA programs on October 25, 2018. Although the ratings measure 21 factors, pay & placement constitute 45% of the ratings formula. Student satisfaction is another heavily weighted factor and accounts for Chicago-Booth replacing Northwestern-Kellogg as the new top ranked MBA program. The rankings of the world’s top 100 MBA programs include:

  1. Chicago-Booth

  2. Northwestern-Kellogg

  3. Harvard

  4. UPenn-Wharton

  5. Stanford GSB

  6. IESE

  7. Michigan-Ross

  8. UCLA-Anderson

  9. Virginia-Darden

  10. Columbia

  11. UCal-Berkeley-Haas

  12. Dartmouth-Tuck

  13. HEC Paris

  14. Yale-SOM

  15. Duke-Fuqua

  16. MIT-Sloan

  17. NYU-Stern

  18. Warwick

  19. INSEAD

  20. Cornell-Johnson

  21. Florida-Warrington

  22. Univ.of Washington-Foster

  23. Melbourne

  24. SDA Bocconi

  25. Texas-Austin McCombs

  26. Vanderbilt-Owens

  27. London Business School (LBS)

  28. USC-Marshall

  29. Emory-Goizueta

  30. UNC-Keenan-Flagler

  31. Georgia Tech

  32. Minnesota-Carlson

  33. Carnegie Mellon-Tepper

  34. EDHEC

  35. IMD

  36. Indiana-Kelley

  37. WashUStL-Olin

  38. Queensland

  39. Univ. of Hong Kong

  40. Arizona State (ASU) Carey

  41. Rice-Jones

  42. Mannheim

  43. Hult International

  44. Georgia-Terry

  45. Cambridge-Judge

  46. ESADE

  47. Bath

  48. Georgetown-McDonough

  49. Notre Dame-Mendoza

  50. Penn State-Smeal

  51. Pittsburgh-Katz

  52. UC-Irvine

  53. SMU-Cox

  54. UC-Davis

  55. Ohio State-Fisher

  56. ESMT-Berlin

  57. U. Rochester-Simon

  58. Wisconsin-Madison

  59. MSU-Broad

  60. Purdue-Krannert

  61. Maryland

  62. Northeastern

  63. GWU

  64. Arizona

  65. NC State

  66. Case Western Reserve

  67. Fordham

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Chicago-Booth has dominated these rankings since first revealed in 2013. Chicago-Booth finished at #1 in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & now in 2018. Chicago was ranked at #2 in 2017.

Northwestern-Kellogg was #1 last year (2017), and is currently ranked at #2. Northwestern-Kellogg also finished second in 2016.

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Georgia Tech - Scheller

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Georgia Tech-Scheller showed the greatest improvement in ranking since last year moving up to #31.

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When “pay & placement” are heavily weighted factors, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) tends to lag behind as many graduates wait for start-up/entrepreneurial opportunities rather than accepting more traditional positions with well established companies.

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Yes, @Publisher, Scheller has gone from Not ranked (2015) → 51 (2016) → 37 (2017) → 31 (2018)

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Great to see ESADE there, and the Judge… great schools, happy I studied at each.