Rankings of full-time MBAs: Booth shines

The Economist as well as Bloomberg Businessweek released their latest rankings for full-time MBA programmes. In the Economist American business schools proved to be the strongest contenders whilst Businessweek ranks U.S. schools and international schools separately.

Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Harvard number one among 74 full-time U.S. programmes. Chicago's Booth as number two, and Northwestern's Kellogg as number three. Bloomberg Businessweek's top school of 2014, Duke University's Fuqua, fell to number eight.

Internationally, of 29 MBA programmes, Western University's Ivey Business School in Ontario, Canada, placed number one (retaining last years top spot), London Business School number two and INSEAD with its main campus in France number three.

In the Economist ranking, 14 of the top 20 schools are based in the United States, including the number one programme at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business which has dominated the ranking for the past years. The second place went to the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, followed by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Harvard Business School. France’s HEC School of Management is the first international school on place five with INSEAD achieving eighth place. Spain’s IESE Business School and IE Business School, Britain’s Warwick Business School as well as Australia’s University of Queensland Business School were the only other international schools in the top 20.

Whilst the Economist stuck to its traditional ranking methodology, Bloomberg Businessweek placed a sharper focus on what people most hope to find after business school in their survey —career growth and job satisfaction—and how well MBA programmes promote both.

The Economist ranking of full-time MBA programmes for 2015
1 University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, United States
2 University of Virginia – Darden School of Business, United States
3 Dartmouth College – Tuck School of Business, United States
4 Harvard Business School, United States
5 HEC School of Management, France
6 University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business, United States
7 Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, United States
8 INSEAD, France
9 UCLA Anderson School of Management, United States
10 University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School, United States
11 New York University – Leonard N Stern School of Business, United States
12 Columbia Business School, United States
13 Stanford University – Graduate School of Business, United States
14 University of Navarra – IESE Business School, Spain
15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan School of Management, United States
16 The University of Queensland Business School, Australia
17 IE University – IE Business School, Spain
18 University of Warwick – Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
19 Yale School of Management, United States
20 Duke University – Fuqua School of Business, United States
Source: www.economist.com/whichmba

Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2015 ranking of full-time MBA programmes
– US schools
1    Harvard
2    Chicago (Booth)
3    Northwestern (Kellogg)
4    MIT (Sloan)
5    Pennsylvania (Wharton)
6    Columbia
7    Stanford
8    Duke (Fuqua)
9    UC Berkeley (Haas)
10    Michigan (Ross)
11    Yale
12    Virginia (Darden)
13    UCLA (Anderson)
14    Dartmouth (Tuck)
15    Emory (Goizueta)
16    Cornell (Johnson)
17    North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
18    Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
19    Rice (Jones)
20    Washington (Foster)
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/bestbschools2015

Bloomberg Businessweek's 2015 top 10 international full-time MBA programmes
1 Western (Ivey), Canada
2 London Business School, Great Britain
3 INSEAD, France
4 IE, Spain
5 IMD, Switzerland
6 Oxford (Saïd), Great Britain
7 IESE, Spain
8 Cambridge (Judge), Great Britain
9 Queen's, Canada
10 HEC Paris, France

These rankings compare well with another well-regarded ranking of business schools by the Financial Times which was published in January 2015: In FT’s survey Harvard Business School came out top, followed by London Business School, the University of Pennsylvania: Wharton, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Insead.