Announced: the world’s best schools and programs for future business leaders

QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global business school analysts and compilers of the QS World University Rankings portfolio, released their annual suite of rankings identifying the world’s premier study destinations for aspiring future business leaders. The evaluation comprises the QS World University Rankings: Global Full-Time MBA – featuring 300 MBA programs– and a series of specialized high-demand Business Masters rankings, including Masters in Management, Finance, Marketing, Business Analytics, and Supply Chain Management.

The rankings, with employability as a central metric by which programs are judged, are designed by QS to provide insight to those wishing to undertake a course of study in a career-enhancing qualification in high demand among employers.

Stanford Graduate School of Business is named the world’s number-one MBA program for the third consecutive year in the Global Full-Time MBA table. The upper echelons of the table remain dominated by American programs, with Harvard Business School  confirmed in second place while The Wharton School drops to third.

Global Full-Time MBA: China (Mainland) highlights

• There are ten Chinese MBA ranked in this edition, two more than last year.
• Four Chinese MBA feature among the top-100.
• Two MBA are new entries, one rises, one drops and six remain stable.
• China’s highest-ranked full-time MBA Program is offered by Tsinghua University, which debuts in this table, placing 29^th globally, and overtaking CEIBS, which maintains its 37^th place.
• Tsinghua’s MBA is the fourth-best in Asia Pacific. It leads regionally in the “Thought-Leadership” indicator, ranks second for “Return on Investment” and third for the “Employability” indicator.
• The full-time MBA program offered by Renmin University of China (RMBS) ranks third in Asia-Pacific in the “Return on Investment” indicator.
• In Asia-Pacific, CEIBS is joint-top with INSEAD, in the “Alumni Outcomes” indicator, which looks  at the schools associated with over 75,000 CEOs, executives and board members at the biggest companies in the world, as well as at successful entrepreneurs. Zhejiang University is the next-best local performer in this indicator, ranking fifth in Asia-Pacific.
• Shanghai University of Finance and Economics boasts the most diverse classroom of all the Chinese programs in this table, and the fourth most diverse in Asia-Pacific.

Other highlights from the Global Full-Time MBA Ranking include:

• QS ranked 300 MBA programs in 47 countries, territories, and special regions.
• Europe’s best MBA program is offered by HEC Paris (4th).  
• UK’s #1 MBA provider remains London Business School (6th).  
• Spain’s IE Business School (7th) and IESE (10th) make the top-10. 
• Singapore boasts three MBA programs among the world’s top-30: INSEAD (9th), National University of Singapore (26th), and ESSEC Business School (28th). 
• IIM Ahmedabad (44th) is India’s top MBA provider.  
• Australia’s top MBA (27th) is taught by Melbourne Business School. 

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Business Masters Rankings: China (Mainland) highlights

Only five specialized business masters programs from China (Mainland) are featured in this edition, two more than last year’s.

Masters in Management 管理学硕士

• Peking University HSBC Business School debuts in this ranking placing 17^th globally.
• Shanghai Jiao Tong (Antai) drops ten places to the 54^th position globally.

Masters in Finance 金融硕士

• Another debut for Peking University HSBC Business School which  places 20^th  globally.
• Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at SJTU drops eight places to 64^th .

Masters in Business Analytics商业分析硕士

• Only Zhejiang University is ranked, in the same band as last year’s (61-70).

In total, QS offer five tables in the QS Business Masters Rankings portfolio, each designed to offer a pioneering guide into business schools performance in quickly growing disciplines. These are:

• Masters in Business Analytics, led by UCLA (Anderson)  
• Masters in Supply Chain Management, led by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
• Masters in Finance, Masters in Management, and Masters in Marketing, led by HEC Paris. 

Each of the Business Masters Rankings is compiled according to program performance in five key metrics: Employability, Entrepreneurship and Alumni Outcomes, Return on Investment, Thought Leadership, and Class & Faculty Diversity. (Methodology) 

The full suite of rankings can be found at www.TopUniversities.com  

QS President Nunzio Quacquarelli, said: “Our Graduate Management Education rankings offer independent insights to career-minded and discerning prospective students who are invited to discuss the findings with peers, business schools and our analysts at our in-person and virtual master’s and MBA networking events.”

Each of the Business Masters Rankings is compiled according to institutional program performance in five key metrics: Employability, Entrepreneurship and Alumni Outcomes, Return on Investment, Thought Leadership, and Class & Faculty Diversity. More information about each of these metrics can be found at https://www.topmba.com/business-masters-rankings/methodology.