THE ECONOMIST 2019 WORLD'S BEST MBA PROGRAM RANKING

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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  1. Chicago–Booth

  2. Harvard

  3. HEC Paris

  4. Northwestern–Kellogg

  5. Penn–Wharton

  6. UCLA–Anderson

  7. UCal-Berkeley (Haas)

  8. Stanford GSB

  9. Michigan–Ross

  10. IESE

  11. Duke–Fuqua

  12. Dartmouth–Tuck

  13. SDA–Boccini

  14. Cornell–Johnson

  15. Columbia

  16. Virginia–Darden

  17. NYU–Stern

  18. USC–Marshall

  19. MIT–Sloan

  20. University of Washington–Foster

  21. Yale SOM

  22. INSEAD

  23. Georgia Tech

  24. Warwick

  25. London Business School

  26. Texas at Austin

  27. Emory

  28. Melbourne

  29. Vanderbilt–Owen

  30. University of Florida–Warrington

  31. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)–Tepper

  32. EDHEC

  33. University of Georgia–Terry

  34. UNC–Keenan-Flagler

  35. IMD

  36. Indiana–Kelley

  37. Rice–Jones

  38. HULT

  39. Minnesota–Carlson

  40. ESADE

  41. WashUStL–Olin

  42. ASU–Carey

  43. Penn State–Smeal

  44. Manheim

  45. Georgetown

  46. Wisconsin–Madison

  47. BYU–Marriott

  48. York–Schulich (Canada)

  49. Notre Dame–Mendoza

  50. Ohio State–Fisher

Economist MBA rankings expose one to European MBA programs.

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Stanford at #8? smh

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It’s always interesting to see rankings done by organizations with a broader global perspective…they don’t really care how we define M7 schools, for example. Not sure I would say Stanford is low, more that UCLA and UCB are high ?

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The only surprise with respect to Stanford’s 8th place ranking is that UCLA-Anderson was ranked higher-- although I do not know much about HEC Paris.

But Chicago-Booth, Penn-Wharton, Harvard & Northwestern-Kellogg all deserve to be top 5 MBA programs, in my opinion.

The Economist loves Chicago-Booth & Northwestern-Kellogg. The only MBA program to push Chicago-Booth out of the #1 position in recent history was Northwestern-Kellogg in 2017.

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Only one Canadian School, and it’s York? Normally, Rotman(U of T) and Ivey(Western) and Desautels(McGill) are ranked ahead of York.

Rankings like this make me shrug my shoulders.

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Yes, you are correct that there was only one Canadian MBA program ranked in the top 50 by the Economist & it was York.

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I know someone going through the process right now and has interviews setup at some of the top programs. And I also know someone who had the choice of a nearly full ride at Kellogg or full pay at Harvard. A Stanford undergrad, but rejected at Stanford GSB. She would have taken Stanford GSB in a heartbeat, but decided to be a full pay at Harvard. Her #1 choice was Stanford.

It’s fine, it’s an opinion. Do you think Yale at #21 is strangely low?

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Without knowing more about the work experience, finances and career objectives of the MBA candidate who chose to be full pay at Harvard over Northwestern-Kellogg on scholarship, it does not seem to be a wise choice from a financial standpoint.

P.S. No, I do not think that Yale’s SOM ranking is unusually–in fact, I often think that this program is ranked too high. Yale SOM went through a change of leadership within the past couple of years & the results remain to be seen.

I am, however, a bit surprised that the London Business School didn’t rank higher than #25.

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I would choose Western (Ivey), Queen’s, McGill, UBC and UofT over most of the American listed schools in the 30-50 slots. These Canadian schools would generally be stronger academically in my opinion. They also have strong ties to Wall St., well-known consulting firms, and Silicon Valley. They may not have the same budgets, or weekend tailgates at the football game, but teaching and peer wise, extremely strong. I completed undergraduate studies at two of these, plus graduate school at Kellogg and Harvard (not business), and worked for years on Wall St. and in VC, so have some insight.