World Ranking Guide

Tokyo University in Japan is the highest ranked university in Asia, followed by another Japanese university - Kyoto.

ANU is the top ranked institution in Australia and placed at third position in Asia (World Rank 59th).

A total of 18 institutions in China made into the Top 100 list in Asia.
Japan has 31 universities in the list, while Australia has 15 universities in Asian Top 100.

Ranking of Top 100 Institutions in Asia by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2008:

Regional Rank, Institution
1 Tokyo Univ
2 Kyoto Univ
3 Australian Natl Univ
4 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem
5 Osaka Univ
6 Univ Melbourne
7 Tohoku Univ
8 Univ Sydney
9-16 Kyushu Univ
9-16 Nagoya Univ
9-16 Natl Univ Singapore
9-16 Technion Israel Inst Tech
9-16 Tel Aviv Univ
9-16 Tokyo Inst Tech
9-16 Univ Queensland
9-16 Univ Western Australia
17-22 Hokkaido Univ
17-22 Natl Taiwan Univ
17-22 Seoul Natl Univ
17-22 Tsukuba Univ
17-22 Univ New South Wales
17-22 Weizmann Inst Sci
23-41 Chinese Univ Hong Kong
23-41 Hiroshima Univ
23-41 Hong Kong Univ Sci & Tech
23-41 Keio Univ
23-41 Kobe Univ
23-41 Korea Advanced Inst Sci & Tech
23-41 Macquarie Univ
23-41 Monash Univ
23-41 Nanjing Univ
23-41 Peking Univ
23-41 Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ
23-41 Tsinghua Univ
23-41 Univ Adelaide
23-41 Univ Auckland
23-41 Univ Hong Kong
23-41 Univ Otago
23-41 Univ Sci & Tech China
23-41 Yonsei Univ
23-41 Zhejiang Univ
42-68 Bar Ilan Univ
42-68 Ben Gurion Univ
42-68 City Univ Hong Kong
42-68 Flinders Univ South Australia
42-68 Fudan Univ
42-68 Hanyang Univ
42-68 Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ
42-68 Indian Inst Sci
42-68 Indian Inst Tech - Kharagpur
42-68 James Cook Univ North Queensland
42-68 Kanazawa Univ
42-68 Korea Univ
42-68 Massey Univ
42-68 Nanyang Tech Univ
42-68 Natl Cheng Kung Univ
42-68 Natl Chiao Tung Univ
42-68 Natl Tsing Hua Univ
42-68 Niigata Univ
42-68 Okayama Univ
42-68 Pohang Univ Sci & Tech
42-68 Sungkyunkwan Univ
42-68 Tokyo Med & Dental Univ
42-68 Univ Newcastle
42-68 Univ Tasmania
42-68 Univ Wollongong
42-68 Waseda Univ
42-68 Yamaguchi Univ
69-100 Chang Gung Univ
69-100 Chiba Univ
69-100 China Agr Univ
69-100 Dalian Univ Tech
69-100 Ehime Univ
69-100 Gifu Univ
69-100 Gunma Univ
69-100 Harbin Inst Tech
69-100 Huazhong Univ Sci & Tech
69-100 Jilin Univ
69-100 Kagoshima Univ
69-100 La Trobe Univ
69-100 Lanzhou Univ
69-100 Nagasaki Univ
69-100 Nankai Univ
69-100 Nara Inst Sci & Tech
69-100 Natl Cent Univ
69-100 Natl Yang Ming Uni
69-100 Nihon Uni
69-100 Osaka City Uni
69-100 Osaka Prefecture Uni
69-100 Pusan Natl Uni
69-100 Shandong Uni
69-100 Sichuan Uni
69-100 Tianjin Uni
69-100 Tokyo Metropolitan Uni
69-100 Tokyo Uni Agr & Tech
69-100 Uni Canterbury
69-100 Uni Istanbul
69-100 Uni Tokushima
69-100 Victoria Uni Wellington
69-100 Zhongshan Uni

Source: ARWU

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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A total of 13 institutions in Asia made into the Top 100 list in the world.

Ranking of Top Asian Universities by the THES:

Asian Rank, World Rank, Name, Country

1. 14 Beijing University China
   
2. 19= National University of Singapore Singapore
   
3. 19= University of Tokyo Japan
   
4. 28 Tsing Hua University China
   
5. 29= Kyoto University Japan
   
6. 33=  University of Hong Kong HK
   
7. 50=   Chinese University of Hong Kong HK
   
8. 57   Indian Institute of Technology India
   
9. 58=   Hong Kong University of Science & Technology HK
   
10. 61=   Nanyang Technological University Singapore
    
11. 63   Seoul National University South Korea
    
12. 68   Indian Institute of Management India
    
13. 70=   Osaka University Japan
    

Source: THES World University Rankings 2006

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According to the THES-QS World University Ranking 2007, a total of 13 Asian universities made into the World's Top 100 list, with the Uni. of Tokyo ranked 1st in Asia (World position: 18th) and U of Hong Kong ranked 2nd regionally (World position: 25th).

Regional Rank, University Name, World Rank

1 University of Tokyo - 17th

2 University of Hong Kong- 18th

3 Kyoto University - 25th

4 National University of Singapore - 33rd

5 Peking University China - 36th

6 The Chinese University of Hongkong - 38th

7 Tsinghua University - 40th

8 Osaka Univ- 46th

9 Seoul National Univ - 51st

10 Hongkong Univ of Science And Technology - 53rd

11 Nanyang Technological Univ - 69th

12 Fudan Univ China - 85th

13 Tokyo Institute of Technology- 90th

Source: THES-QS World University Ranking 2007

The criteria used by THES-QSare as follows :

• Research Quality - 60%
  
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• Graduate. Employability - 10%
  
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• International Outlook - 10%
  
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• Teaching Quality - 20%
  

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Queen's

Business Week Non-USA MBA Ranking 2007:

Rank, School, Country

1 Queen's Canada-Ontario

2 Western Ontario (Ivey) Canada-Ontario

3 Toronto (Rotman) Canada-Ontario

4 IMD Switzerland

5 London Business School U.K.

6 INSEAD France

7 ESADE Spain

8 IESE Spain

9 York (Schulich) Canada-Ontario

10 HEC Montreal Canada

Source: Business Week (Nov 2007)

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LBS is ranked No. 1 in the Non-US MBA by FT league table 2005.

Following is the list of Top ranked MBA schools (Non-U.S.) - No. 1 position according to a number of MBA league tables:

Business Week 2006, 2007 and 2008: Queen's Canada

Wall Street Journal 2005: IMD (Institute for Management Development), Switzerland

Financial Times 2005: London Business School (LBS)

Business Week 2004: Queen's University, Canada

Financial Times 2004: IMD

America Economia 2004: INSEAD

Wall Street Journal 2004: IMD

Forbes (biannual) 2003: INSEAD

Economist Intelligence Unit 2003: IMD

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IPADE

School, Tuition Fee ($US)

• IPADE 16,500
  
• ITESM-EGADE 18,095
  
• ESSEC 22,324
  
• York (Schulich) 25,900
  
• ESADE Business School 33,888
  
• Thunderbird (Garvin) 36,630
  
• Columbia University 43,436
  
• University of Chicago 44,500
  
• IMD 44,553
  
• MIT (Sloan) 44,566
  
• HEC Paris 51,000
  
• Instituto de Empresa 59,128
  
• Western Ontario (Ivey) 59,294
  
• INSEAD 62,400
  
• London Business School 84,813
  

Source: Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Business School Year 7 Survey 2007

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IESE

Forbes Non-USA MBA Ranking 2007 (Top 10):

Rank, School, Country

1 IESE Spain

2 London Business School U.K.

3 Manchester Business School U.K.

4 Schulich Business School (York) Canada-Ontario

5 IPADE Mexico

6 Australian Graduate School of Management Australia

7 Sauder School (UBC) Canada

8 ESADE Spain

9 CEIBS China

10 HEC-Paris France

Source: Forbes Magazine 2007

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LBS is in the Top 5 Non-US Schools

League Table - Top 10 Full Time Non-US Schools:

1 Queen's University

2 IE Business School

3 INSEAD

4 Western Ontario (Ivey)

5 London Business School (LBS)

6 ESADE

7 IMD

8 Toronto (Rotman)

9 IESE

10 Oxford (Saîd)

Source: Business Week

* Related Post: Forbes Non-US MBA Ranking

Ranking of Top 15 International Business Schools:
(Based on a survey of 4,430 MBA recruiters)

Rank, School, Country

1 ESADE Business School Spain

2 IMD Switzerland

3 University of London (London Business School) UK

4 Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresa Mexico

5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) USA

6 Columbia University USA

7 ESSEC France

8 ITESM-EGADE Mexico

9 HEC Paris France

10 Thunderbird (Garvin) USA

11 York University (Schulich) Canada-Ontario

12 University of Western Ontario (Ivey) Canada-Ontario

13 University of Chicago USA

14 Instituto de Empresa Spain

15 INSEAD France

Source: Wall Street Journal 2007

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For the ranking of Indian B-schools, please visit: India Business School Ranking by Category

Top Business Schools in India:
Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore
Amity Business School, Noida
Asia Pacific Institute of Management (APIM)
Asia Pacific Institute of Mgmt., Delhi
B.K School of Management , Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Mgmt. Edu & Development, Pune
Bharatidasan Insitutte of Management, Trichy
Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIM Tech)
Chetana’s R.K Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai
Christ College Institute of Mgmt., Bangalore
Department of Communication & Management, Calicut
Department of Management Studies - IIT Delhi
Department of Management Studies - IIT Kanpur
Department of Management Studies - IIT Madras
Department of Management Studies - IIT Roorkee
Department of Management Studies, Goa University, Goa
Dept of Management Sciences, Pune University (PUMBA), Pune
Dept of Management Studies, Anna University, Chennai
Dept of Management, Madras University
Dept. of Commerce & Management, Andhra Univ, Vishakapatnam
Entrepreneurship & Management Processes International (EMPI)
Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi
Faculty of Management Studies (University of Delhi)
FORE School of Management, Delhi
G.H Patel Institute of Business Management, Gujarat
Globsyn Business School (GBS)
Goa Institute of Management
Graduate School of Business Administration, Ghaziabad
ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
Indian Education Society’s Mgmt College & Research Centre, Mumbai
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi
Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal
Indian Institute of Forest Management , Bhopal
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Indian Institute of Modern Mgmt. (IIMM), Pune
Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM), Delhi
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Indira Group of Institutes, Pune
Institute For Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai
Institute for Integrated Learning in Mgmt. (IILM), Delhi
Institute for Technology & Management (ITM), Navi Mumbai
Institute of Management & Technology, Ghaziabad
Institute of Management Development & Research (IMDR), Pune
Institute of Management in Kerala, Tiruvanthapuram
Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya Univ, Indore
Institute of Rural Management, Anand
International Management Institute, Delhi
Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Delhi
Jaipura Institute of Management, Lucknow
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
JDC Bytco Institute of Management Studies and Research, Nasik
K.J.Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research
Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies (KIAMS), Harihar
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBS)
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Mgmt., Delhi
Loyala Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) , Chennai
Management development Institute, Gurgaon
Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad
Mumbai Educational Trust’s Institute of Management, Mumbai
N L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, Thane
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
National Institue of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai
National Institute of Management, Calcutta
Nirma University - Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Prestige Institute of Mgmt. & Research, Indore
Prin L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research
PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore
R.A Podar Institute of Management, FMS, Jaipur
Rizvi Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai
School of Communication & Management Studies, Cochin
School of Management Studies, Cochin University, Cochin
School of Management Studies, Pondichery University, Pondichery
SDM Institute of Management Development, Mysore
Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Powai
Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, Global Business Operations
SIES College of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai
Sinhagad Institute of Management, Pune
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai
Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD, Pune
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune
Symbiosis Institute of Technology & Management, Pune
T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
University Business School , Chandigarh
Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur
Vivekanand Education Society’s Inst. of Mgmt Studies and Res., Mumbai
Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubhaneshwar
Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi
Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur

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Top Accounting Schools in America:

Business Specialties: Accounting

1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
3 University of Chicago
4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
6 Stanford Uni (CA)
7 U of Southern California (Marshall)
8 New York Uni (Stern)
9 Northwestern Uni (Kellogg) (IL)
10 U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
11 Columbia Univ (NY)
12 Indiana Univ at Bloomington (Kelley)
13 Harvard Univ (MA)
14 U of Rochester (Simon) (NY)
15 Ohio State Uni (Fisher)
16 Brigham Young Uni (Marriott) (UT)
17 Cornell Uni (Johnson) (NY)
18 U of Florida (Warrington)
19 U of Georgia (Terry)
20 U of Washington
21 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
22 U of California Berkeley (Haas)
23 Arizona State Univ Main Campus (W. P. Carey)
24 Duke Univ (Fuqua) (NC)
25 U of California Los Angeles (Anderson)
26 U of Notre Dame (Mendoza) (IN)
27 U of Wisconsin Madison
28 Michigan State Univ (Broad)
29 U of Iowa (Tippie)
30 Texas A&M Univ College Station (Mays)
31 U of Virginia (Darden)

Source: US News and World Report 2005

* More rankings: Top Accounting Schools & Programs

Business Specialties: Management Information Systems
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
2. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
3. University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
4. University of Arizona (Eller)
5. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
6. Stanford University (CA)
7. New York University (Stern)
8. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
9. University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)
10. Arizona State University–Main Campus
11. U of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
12. Georgia State Uni (Robinson)
13. Indiana Uni–Bloomington (Kelley)
14. Purdue Uni–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)
15. U of California–Berkeley (Haas)
16. U of Michigan–Ann Arbor
17. Duke Uni (Fuqua) (NC)
18. Un of California–Irvine
19. Northwestern Uni (Kellogg) (IL)
20. U of Pittsburgh (Katz)
21. Bentley College (McCallum) (MA)
22. Harvard Uni (MA)
23. U of Georgia (Terry)
24. Georgia Institute of Technology (DuPree)
25. U of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
26. U of Washington

Business Specialties: Finance
1. U of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2. U of Chicago
3. New York Uni (Stern)
4. Stanford Uni (CA)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
6. Columbia Univ (NY)
7. U of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
8. Harvard Univ (MA)
9. Northwestern Univ (Kellogg) (IL)
10. U of California–Berkeley (Haas)
11. U of Michigan–Ann Arbor
12. U of Rochester (Simon) (NY)
13. Duke Uni (Fuqua) (NC)
14. Carnegie Mellon Univ (PA)
15. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
14. U of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
17. Indiana U–Bloomington (Kelley)
18. U of Southern California (Marshall)
19. Yale Univ (CT)
20. U of Virginia (Darden)
21. U of Washington
22. Ohio State Uy (Fisher)
23. Cornell U (Johnson) (NY)

Business Specialties: Accounting  
1. U of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2. U of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
3. U of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
4. U of Chicago
5. Stanford University (CA)
6. U of Michigan–Ann Arbor
7. New York University (Stern)
8. U of Southern California (Marshall)
9. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
10. U of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan)

Source: US News and World Report 2003

* Princeton Review Business School Rankings

Wharton School

Global Top MBA programs by Financial Times 2009:
(15 US Universities in the World top 30 list)

1 Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

2 Harvard Business School (HBS)

3 Columbia Business School

4 Stanford Graduate School of Business

5 MIT Sloan School of Management

6 Stern School of Business, New York University

7 University of Chicago Booth School of Business

8 Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

9 Yale School of Management

10 Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univ

11 Fuqua School of Business, Duke Univ

12 Ross School of Business, Univ of Michigan

13 Goizueta Business School, Emory Univ

14 Darden School of Business, Univ of Virginia

15 UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Chicago is ranked No. 1

Business Week Ranking of US Top 30 Full Time MBA Programs (2008):

1 University of Chicago (Booth)
2 Harvard University
3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5 University of Michigan (Ross)
6 Stanford University
7 Columbia University
8 Duke University (Fuqua)
9 MIT (Sloan)
10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
11 Cornell Univ (Johnson)
12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
13 NYU (Stern)
14 UCLA (Anderson)
15 Indiana Univ (Kelley)
16 Univ of Virginia (Darden)
17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20 U of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
21 Texas - Austin (McCombs)
22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
23 Emory Uni (Goizueta)
24 Yale Uni
25 U of Southern California (Marshall)
26 U of Maryland (Smith)
27 U of Washington (Foster)
28 Washington Uni (Olin)
29 Georgia Tech
30 Vanderbilt Uni (Owen)

Source: Business Week

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UCLA

USA Top 30 Part Time MBA Programs (2008):

1 UCLA (Anderson)
2 Emory University
3 USC (Marshall)
4 Loyola Marymount University
5 Lehigh University
6 University of Denver
7 University of Chicago
8 Loyola University - Chicago
9 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
10 Drexel University (LeBow)
11 Villanova University
12 Elon University (Love)
13 Southern Methodist University (Cox)
14 Richmond (Robins)
15 Boston Univ
16 Univ of Washington (Foster)
17 Univ of Nevada, Reno
18 Indiana Univ - Southeast
19 Georgia State (Robinson)
20 Washington (Olin)
21 Ohio State Univ (Fisher)
22 Wake Forest (Babcock)
23 Rollins College (Crummer)
24 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
25 New York Univ (Stern)
26 Univ of Texas at San Antonio
27 Houston (Bauer)
28 Boston College (Carroll)
29 U. Mass. - Amherst (Isenberg)
30 Texas-Austin (McCombs)

Source: Business Week

* Popular Post: American Top MBA in the world 2008

Following are top MBA schools in America as ranked by Financial Times Global MBA Rankings (2008):
( 19 US universities ranked in the World top 40)

1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
   
2. Columbia Business School
   
3. Stanford University GSB
   
4. Harvard Business School
   
5. MIT: Sloan
   
6. Univ of Chicago Graduate Sch. of Business
   
7. New York Univ: Stern
   
8. Dartmouth College: Tuck
   
9. Yale School of Management
   
10. Northwestern Uni: Kellogg
    
11. UCLA: Anderson
    
12. Emory Uni: Goizueta
    
13. Uni of Michigan: Ross
    
14. Duke Uni: Fuqua
    
15. UC Berkeley: Haas
    
16. Uni of Virginia: Darden
    
17. Cornell Uni: Johnson
    
18. Uni of Maryland: Smith
    
19. Georgetown Uni: McDonough

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US News MBA Rankings 2008:

1 Harvard University USA

1 Stanford University USA

3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) USA

4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) USA

4 Norwestern University (Kellogg) USA

4 University of Chicago USA

7 Dartmouth College (Tuck) USA

7 Univ of California Berkeley (Haas) USA

9 Columbia Univ USA

10 New York Univ (Stern) USA

BusinessWeek USA MBA Rankings 2008:

1 Uni of Chicago (Booth)

2 Harvard Uni

3 Northwestern Uni (Kellogg)

4 U of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

5 U of Michigan (Ross)

6 Stanford Uni

7 Columbia Uni

8 Duke Uni (Fuqua)

9 MIT (Sloan)

10 UC Berkeley (Haas)

* Other Post: US Best MBA Schools in the World 2007

Following is the top ranked US MBA schools in the world:

Financial Times Full Time MBA Ranking 2007:
(12 US institutions in the world top 20)

1. Uni of Pennsylvania: Wharton - U.S.

2. Columbia Business School - U.S.

3. Harvard Business School - U.S.

4. Stanford University GSB - U.S.

5. Uni of Chicago GSB - U.S.

6. New York University: Stern - U.S.

7. Dartmouth College: Tuck - U.S.

8. Yale School of Management - U.S.

9. MIT: Sloan - U.S.

10. UCLA: Anderson - U.S.

11. Northwestern University: Kellogg - U.S.

12. Uni of Michigan: Ross - U.S.


Economist Global MBA Ranking 2007:
(5 US schools in the World Top 10)

1 Uni of Chicago GSB

2 Stanford Uni GSB

3 Darmouth College (Tuck)

4 UC Berkeley (Haas)

5 New York Uni (Stern)

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Chicago

Economist Global MBA Ranking 2008:
(15 US institutions in the World Top 30 list)

1 Chicago GSB

2 Stanford GSB

3 Tuck (Dartmouth)

4 Haas (UC Berkeley)

5 (Stern) New York University

6 Harvard Business School

7 Northwestern Univ - Kellogg School of Management

8 Pennsylvania, Univ of - Wharton School

9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management

10 Columbia Business School

11 Michigan, Univ of - Stephen M Ross School of Business

12 Virginia, Univ of - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration

13 Cornell Univ--Johnson Graduate School of Management

14 Duke Univ--Fuqua School of Business

15 Yale School of Management

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Harvard and Stanford are ranked equal first in the 2009 US News Business School Rankings.

Top 25 Business Schools:
1 Harvard University Boston, MA
1 Stanford University Stanford, CA
3 U Penn (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
4 MIT(Sloan) Cambridge, MA
4 Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
4 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
7 Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH
7 University of California–Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
9 Columbia University New York, NY
10 New York University (Stern) New York, NY
11 UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA
12 Uni of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
13 Yale Univ New Haven, CT
14 Cornell Univ (Johnson) Ithaca, NY
14 Duke Univ (Fuqua) Durham, NC
14 Uni of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA
17 Carnegie Mellon Uni (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA
18 Uni of Texas–Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
19 Uni of North Carolina–(Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC
20 Indiana Uni–Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN
21 Univ of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA
22 Arizona State Univ (Carey) Tempe, AZ
22 Georgetown Univ (McDonough) Washington, DC
24 Emory Univ (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA
25 Univ of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY

Source: USnews.com

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Following are the top US universities in the world MBA ranking tables:

Whitefield Consulting Worldwide Global MBA Ranking 2009:
(11 US institutions in the World Top 25 list)

1 Harvard Business School

2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

3 Stanford University GSB

4 Columbia Business School

5 Chicago Booth

6 MIT (Sloan)

7 New York University (Stern)

8 UCLA (Anderson)

9 Yale School of Management

10 Dartmouth College Tuck

11 Northwestern University (Kellogg)

* Useful Link: MBA Rankings- Top in America

Top Non-US MBA Programs:

Rank, School, Country

1 INSEAD France

2 IMD Switzerland

3 Judge School of Management (University of Cambridge) UK

4 Said Business School (University of Oxford) UK

5 London Business School UK

6 Schulich School of Bussiness (York University) Canada

7 SDA Bocconi School of Management Italy

8 IESE Business School Spain

9 Australian Graduate School of Management Australia

10 Queen's University Canada

11 Cranfield School of Management UK

12 Rotterdam School of Management The Netherlands

13 McGill University Canada

14 HEC School of Management France

15 Manchester Business School UK

16 ESADE Spain

17 HEC Montreal Canada

18 Molson (Concordia) Canada

Source: Forbes 2003

* US and Non-US Business School Ranking

According to the Financial Times (FT) MBA League Table 2009, a total of five Canadian business schools made into the Global Top 100 list:

1. University of Toronto: Rotman - World Position: 47th
Salary: 97,413
Salary Increase: 92%
Value for Money Rank: 63
Career Progress Rank: 98
Aims Achieved Rank: 54
Placement Success Rank: 67
Employment Rate (3 months): 90%
Alumni Recommended Rank: 19

2. University of Western Ontario: Ivey - World Position: 47th
Salary: 104,456
Salary Increase: 98%
Value for Money Rank: 37
Career Progress Rank: 72
Aims Achieved Rank: 57
Placement Success Rank: 40
Employment Rate (3 months): 91%
Alumni Recommended Rank: 20

3. York University: Schulich - World Position: 49th
Salary: 88,609
Salary Increase: 97
Value for Money Rank: 43
Career Progress Rank: 65
Aims Achieved Rank: 71
Placement Success Rank: 87
Employment Rate (3 months): 90%
Alumni Recommended Rank: 29

4. University of British Columbia: Sauder - World Position: 71st
Salary: 89,682
Salary Increase: 83
Value for Money : 38
Career Progress : 75
Aims Achieved : 80
Placement Success :78
Employment Rate (3 months): 92%
Alumni Recommended : 49

5. University of Alberta - World Position: 77th
Salary: 75,084
Salary Increase: 95
Value for Money : 29
Career Progress : 30
Aims Achieved : 51
Placement Success : 84
Employment Rate (3 months): 98%
Alumni Recommended : 78

Source: Financial Times

* Top Post: Canada Best MBA in the World 2008

Queen's University

Top Ten Full-Time Canadian and Western European MBA Programmes:

Rank, School, Country

1 Queen's (Kingston, Ontario) Canada

2 IMD (Lausanne) Switzerland

3 INSEAD (Fontainebleau) France

4 ESADE (Barcelona) Spain

5 London Business School UK

6 Western Ontario (London) Canada

7 IESE Business School (Barcelona) Spain

8 HEC Paris France

9 Toronto (Toronto) Canada

10 HEC Montreal (Montreal) Canada

Source: Business Week 2004

* Top B Schools in Canada

According to the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2008, a total of six Canadian universities made into the Top 100 list, with U of Toronto ranked 1st in Canada (World position 40th) and York in 2nd place (48th globally).

Canada Rank, Name - World Rank

1. University of Toronto (Rotman) - 40
* Placement Success Rank 48th
   Career Progress 100th

2. York University (Schulich) - 48
* Value for money 28th

3. Ivey - 53
* Value for money 42nd
It was ranked 41st in 2007, 31st in 2006 and 34th in 2005.

4. Alberta - 88
* Value for money 27th
 Alberta MBA was ranked 98th in 2006, 97th in 2004 and 100th in 2003.

5. UBC - 92
UBC was ranked 77th in 2007, 71st in 2006, 55th in 2005,67th in 2004 and 73rd in 2003.

6. McGill - 96
McGill was ranked 90th in 2007, 44th in 2006, 39th in 2005 and 2004, 37th in 2003.

* Popular Post: Canadian Top MBA Programs in the World

Following is the Guardian newspaper's rankings of British universities (released in 2008), a total of 117 UK insitutions are ranked according to eight performance indicators:

• Average Teaching Score
  
• NSS Teaching (%)
  
• Expenditure per student / 10
  
• Student:staff ratio
  
• Career prospects (%)
  
• Value added score / 10
  
• Entry Tariff
  
• NSS Feedback (%)
  

Oxford and Cambridge are ranked in the Top Two positions again in the latest ranking, followed by LSE in third position and Warwick in fourth place.

The 2009 League Table has moved Imperial down to sixth position nationally, behind St Andrews and LSE, falling out of the top 4 for the first time in years.

The Top 50 UK Universities:
Rank, Institution, Average Teaching Score
1 Oxford 100
2 Cambridge 92.9
3 London School of Economics 84.4
4 Warwick 81.6
5 St Andrews 78.4
6 Imperial College 78.1
7 UCL 76.6
8 SOAS 74.3
9 Edinburgh 73.4
10 Loughborough 72.9
11 York 72.5
12 Lancaster 71.8
13 Bath 71.1
14 Exeter 70.9
14 Leicester 70.9
16 Durham 69.2
17 Dundee 67.8
18 Aston 67.3
19 Nottingham 67.2
20 Glasgow 67
21 King's College London 66.5
22 Surrey 66.4
23 Aberdeen 66.1
24 Manchester 66
25 Southampton 65.8
26 City 65.4
27 Leeds 65.1
28 Kent 64.8
29 Strathclyde 64.2
30 Birmingham 64.1
31 Bristol 63.7
32 Stirling 62.9
33 Cardiff 62.7
34 Sussex 62.4
35 Royal Holloway 62.2
36 Essex 62.1
37 Sheffield 62
38 Bournemouth 61.8
39 Reading 61.4
40 UEA 61.3
41 Nottingham Trent 60.9
42 Goldsmiths 60.7
43 Newcastle 60.4
44 Liverpool 60.1
45 University of the Arts, London 60
46 Queen's, Belfast 59.8
47 Queen Mary 59.7
48 Plymouth 59.3
49 Napier 59.1
50 Robert Gordon 58.6

Source: Guardian 2009

* The School of Geography and the Environment (Oxford University) has been ranked 2nd in the subject league table with a total score of 99.8 out of a possible 100.

* More League Tables: UK Universities Ranking

York Schulich

Following is the ranking of top best MBA programs in Canada by Beyond Grey Pinstripes World Best 100 MBA Programs 2007. A total of nine Canadian MBA schools are ranked in the World Top 100 list. York is ranked First nationally and 3rd in the world, followed by Calgary (#16 globally) and Western Ontario (#21 globally).

The ranking is tabulated directly from the self-reported survey data. The calculated and reviewed data was aggregated into 4 “raw score” metrics:

• Student Opportunity Raw Score
  
• Student Exposure Raw Score
  
• Course Content
  
• Faculty Research

Canada Rank, Name, World Rank

1 York (Schulich) 3

2 Calgary (Haskayne) 16

3 Western Ontario (Ivey) 21

4 British Columbia (Sauder) 23

5 Dalhousie 39

6 McGill 45

7 Alberta 53

8 Concordia (John Molson) 59

9 Wilfrid Laurier 65

Source: Beyond Grey Pinstripes

View below for more information on the rankings and league tables of top MBA programs in the world:

FT Global MBA Rankings 2009
Wharton Business School and London Business School are ranked equal first......

Financial Times World MBA Rankings 2008
Pennsyvania (Wharton) is ranked Number 1 for its MBA program in the world, followed by LBS......

EIU League Table 2008-Top 20
Harvard moved up to third position in the world for its MBA programs this year......

World Top 10 MBA Programs by Category
Economist Intelligence Unit's Ranking of Top Gloabl MBA programmes by four different categories......

Global EMBA Ranking 2008
Ranking of Top 25 EMBA programs by Whitefield Consulting Worldwide......

World Top 25 EMBA Ranking 2007
Northwestern University (Kellogg School Executive MBA Program) is ranked first in the world for its EMBA program......

World Best 100 MBA Programs 2007
Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranked top business schools on four different criteria......

EIU Global Top 100 MBA 2007
Chicago is ranked first in the league table, moving up from 4th in 2006......

EIU Top 100 Full Time MBA 2006
Based on 14 criteria covering new career opportunities, personal development......

Top 20 MBA Programs-Financial Times 2006
Ranking of world top leading Master of Business Administration programs by Financial Times......

Top 100 Full Time Global MBA Programs 2005
Based on 20 criteria covering employment/salaries of graduates, nature of faculty,......

Economist Intelligence Unit MBA Ranking 2005
IESE Business School is ranked first globally, followed by Northwestern and......

World Top 35 Executive MBA Programs
Based on survey of Graduates and Directors of Schools......

Historical MBA League Tables - 1998 to 2006

Top 10 MBA Schools

2006 League Tables:

Top EMBA Progarms by Financial Times

EIU Top 100 Full Time MBA 2006

MBA French Rankings by Whitefield Consulting Worldwide


2005 League Tables:

US News Ranking of Top Entrepreneurship programs

Top MBA Ranking by Aspen Institute

Princeton Review Business School Rankings

Economist Intelligence Unit MBA Ranking 2005

Forbes Ranking of Top 60 MBA Programs

US and Non-US Business School Ranking

Australian MBA Ranking-Band 1 to Band 4

Top 100 Full Time Global MBA by Financial Times


Other Historical League Tables:

MBA Rankings 2003 and 2004

Business School League Tables 2001 / 2002

MBA League Tables 1998,1999,2000

Economist Intelligence Unit's Ranking of Top Gloabl MBA programmes by four different categories:

• Open new career opportunities
  
• Personal development and educational experience
  
• Increase salary
  
• Potential to network
  

Open new career opportunities
1 Chicago
2 Indian Institute (Ahmedabad)
3 Hong Kong UST
4 California at Berkeley
5 New York (Stern)
6 Dartmouth (Tuck)
7 IE
8 IESE
9 Virginia (Darden)
10 IMD

Personal development and educational experience
1 Henley
2 Monash
3 Curtin
4 Bath
5 Cambridge (Judge)
6 Hong Kong UST
7 Melbourne
8 INSEAD
9 Hong Kong University
10 York (Schulich)

Increase salary
1 Ashridge
2 Henley
3 HEC Paris
4 IESE
5 Warwick
6 IMD
7 Oxford (Saïd)
8 Bath
9 Hult
10 London

Potential to network
1 Henley
2 Thunderbird
3 Vlerick Leuven
4 New York (Stern)
5 HEC Paris
6 IE
7 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
8 Cambridge (Judge)
9 EM Lyon
10 Northwestern (Kellogg)

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit 2008

* Related Post: EIU MBA League Table 2008-Top 20

IMD of Switzerland is ranked 1st in the world for its full-time MBA programs, moving up from 5th last year. IESE is ranked 2nd best globally, followed by U of Chicago in the third position and Stanford in fourth position.

2008 Ranking of World Top 20 Full-time MBA programs by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU):

Rank (2007 position in brackets), School, Country
1 (5) IMD - International Institute for Management Development Switzerland
2 (3) IESE Business School—University of Navarra Spain
3 (1) Uni of Chicago—Graduate School of Business US
4 (2) Stanford Graduate School of Business US
5 (4) Dartmouth College—Tuck School of Business US
6 (6) Univ of California at Berkeley—Haas School of Business US
7 (7) Univ of Cambridge—Judge Business School UK
8 (8) New York Univ—Leonard N Stern School of Business US
9 (15) London Business School UK
10 (9) IE Business School Spain
11 (20) Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology—School of Business and Management Hong Kong
12 (13) Harvard Business School US
13 (11) Cranfield School of Management UK
14 (22) Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Belgium
15 (24) York Univ—Schulich School of Business Canada
16 (14) Northwestern Uni—Kellogg School of Management US
17 (21) Uni of Pennsylvania—Wharton School US
18 (16) Massachusetts Institute of Technology—MIT Sloan School of Management US
19 (17) INSEAD France/Singapore
20 (10) Henley Business School UK

Source: EIU 2008

* Next Post: FT Global MBA Rankings 2009

Wharton Business School and London Business School are ranked equal first globally for their MBA programs in 2009, ahead of Harvard, Columbia and INSEAD.

Harvard moved up to third position in the world for its MBA programs this year (5th in 2008).

Global Top 100 MBA programs by Financial Times 2009 survey:
1 Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
1 London Business School (LBS)
3 Harvard Business School (HBS)
4 Columbia Business School
5 INSEAD - European Institute of Business Administration
6 Stanford Graduate School of Business
6 IE Business School
8 China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
9 MIT Sloan School of Management
10 Stern School of Business, New York University
11 University of Chicago Booth School of Business
12 IESE Business School
13 Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
14 IMD
15 Indian School of Business
16 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School
17 Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
18 Esade Business School
19 Yale School of Management
20 Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
21 Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
22 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
23 Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
24 Goizueta Business School, Emory University
24 Nanyang Business School
26 Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
27 Lancaster University Management School (LUMS)
27 Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
29 HEC Paris
29 UCLA Anderson School of Management
31 Haas School of Business, University of California–Berkeley
32 Manchester Business School
32 Australian School of Business
34 Johnson School, Cornell Univ
35 National Univ of Singapore School of Business (NUS)
35 Cranfield School of Management
37 Warwick Business School
38 SDA Bocconi School of Management
39 Imperial College Business School
40 McDonough School of Business, Georgetown Univ
41 U of Strathclyde Business School
41 Eller College of Management, U of Arizona
41 Cass Business School, City Univ London
44 Smith School of Business, U of Maryland
45 Kenan-Flagler Business School, U of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
46 Simon Graduate School of Business, U of Rochester
47 Rotman School of Management, U of Toronto
47 Ivey School of Business, U of Western Ontario
49 Schulich School of Business, York Univ
49 McCombs School of Business, Univ of Texas–Austin
51 Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon Univ
52 Melbourne Business School
53 Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice Univ
53 Katz Graduate School of Business, U of Pittsburgh
55 College of Business, U of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
56 Vanderbilt Univ Owen Graduate School of Management
57 Leeds Univ Business School
57 Boston Univ School of Management
57 Mays Business School, Texas A&M Univ
60 Kelley School of Business, Indiana U–Bloomington
60 Marshall School of Business, U of Southern California
60 Olin School of Business, Washington Uni in St. Louis
63 Hough Graduate School of Business, U of Florida
63 Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management, Michigan State Uni
63 Tippie College of Business, U of Iowa
63 Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State Uni
67 Foster School of Business, U of Washington
67 Thunderbird School of Global Management
67 Moore School of Business, U of South Carolina
70 Cox School of Business, SMU
71 U of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
71 U of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
71 Sauder School of Business, U of British Columbia
74 Merage School of Business, U of California–Irvine
75 Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
76 Carey School of Business, Arizona State Uni
77 Aston Business School
77 U of Alberta School of Business
77 Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business
80 Durham Business School
80 Krannert School of Management, Purdue Uni
80 Fisher College of Business, Ohio State Uni
83 Birmingham Business School
83 U of Bath School of Management
85 George Washington Uni School of Business
86 Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest Uni
87 Grenoble Graduate School of Business
87 Bradford Uni School of Management
89 Carroll School of Management, Boston College
89 Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College
91 EADA
92 COPPEAD Graduate School of Business
92 U of Edinburgh Business School
92 Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young Uni
95 Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve Uni
95 Wisconsin School of Business
97 Hult International Business School
98 U of Miami School of Business
99 UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
100 Nottingham Uni Business School

Source: Financial Times

* Related Post: Global EMBA Ranking 2008

Ranking of world top leading MBA programs by Financial Times (FT):

World top 20 list:

1. The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)

2. Harvard Business School

3. Stanford Business School

4. Columbia Business School

5. London Business School

6. The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

7. Leonard N. Stern School of Business (New York University)

8. Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College)

8. INSEAD

10. MIT Sloan School of Management

11. Yale School of Management

12. Instituto de Empresa

13. IESE Business School

14. IMD

14. Ross School of Business (Univ of Michigan)

16. Haas School of Business (Univ of California, Berkeley)

17. Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern Uni)

18. York Uni: Schulich

19. The Anderson School (Uni of California, Los Angeles)

20. Uni of Oxford: Said

Source: Financial Times 2006

* Next Post: EIU Global Top 100 MBA 2007

Chicago is ranked first in the league table, moving up from 4th in 2006. Stanford is in second position (up from 3rd last year), while IESE moved down from 1st in last year to 3rd position.

Top 100 Global MBA:
1 Chicago, University of - Graduate School of Business
2 Stanford Graduate School of Business
3 IESE Business School - University of Navarra
4 Dartmouth College--Tuck School of Business
5 IMD - International Institute for Management Development
6 California at Berkeley, University of--Haas School of Business
7 Cambridge, University of - Judge Business School
8 New York University - Leonard N Stern School of Business
9 IE Business School
10 Henley Management College
11 Cranfield School of Management
12 Michigan, University of - Stephen M Ross School of Business
13 Harvard Business School
14 Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
15 London Business School
16 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management
17 INSEAD
18 Columbia Business School
19 Ashridge
20 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -- School of Business and Management
21 Pennsylvania, University of - Wharton School
22 Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
23 Virginia, University of - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
24 York University - Schulich School of Business
25 Yale School of Management
26 Washington, University of - Business School
27 Warwick Business School
28 Cornell University--Johnson Graduate School of Management
29 Duke University--Fuqua School of Business
30 Emory University—Goizueta Business School
31 Oxford, University of—Saïd Business School
32 Notre Dame, University of - Mendoza College of Business
33 Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
34 Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business
35 International University of Monaco
36 HEC School of Management, Paris
37 Hong Kong, University of — School of Business
38 City University--Cass Business School
39 Hult International Business School
40 Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
41 Southern California, University of - Marshall School of Business
42 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of - Kenan-Flagler Business School
43 Monash University—Graduate School of Business
44 University College Dublin - Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
45 Texas at Austin, University of - McCombs School of Business
46 RSM Erasmus University
47 ESADE Business School
48 Wisconsin-Madison, University of--Graduate School of Business
49 Washington University in St Louis - Olin School of Business
50 Lancaster University Management School
51 Maryland, Univ of - Robert H Smith School of Business
52 Leeds Univ Business School
53 Georgetown Univ - Robert Emmet McDonough School of Business
54 Aston Business School
55 Vanderbilt Univ - Owen Graduate School of Management
56 Edinburgh, Univ of--Management School
57 Manchester Business School
58 Imperial College London--Tanaka Business School
59 Durham, Univ of--Durham Business School
60 Brandeis International Business School
61 Iowa, Univ of - Henry B Tippie School of Management
62 Nottingham Univ Business School
63 Birmingham, Univ of--Birmingham Business School
64 Strathclyde, Univ of - Business School
65 Bath, Univ of--School of Management
66 E M Lyon
67 South Carolina, Univ of - Moore School of Business
68 Purdue Univ - Krannert Graduate School of Management
69 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Univ of — College of Business
70 Pittsburgh, Uni of - Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business
71 California at Davis, Univ of - Graduate School of Management
72 Nanyang Technological Univ - Nanyang Business School
73 TiasNimbas Business School
74 Boston Univ
75 Glasgow, Univ of-- Business School
76 EDHEC Business School
77 International Univ of Japan - Graduate School of International Management
78 Audencia Nantes School of Management
79 Florida, Uni of - Warrington College of Business
80 Curtin Uni Graduate School of Business
81 Wake Forest Uni- Babcock Graduate School of Management
82 Rochester, Uni of - William E Simon Graduate School of Business
83 Southern Methodist Uni - Cox School of Business
84 Macquarie Graduate School of Management
85 Georgia, Uni of - Terry College of Business
86 Bocconi Uni--SDA Bocconi School of Management
87 EADA--Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración
88 Sheffield Uni Management School
89 British Columbia, Univ of - Sauder School of Business
90 China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
91 Chinese Uni of Hong Kong
92 Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad
93 Bradford School of Management
94 National Uni of Singapore--The NUS Business School
95 Temple Uni--Fox School of Business
96 Nyenrode, Universiteit —The Netherlands Business School
97 Case Western Reserve Uni--Weatherhead School of Management
98 Newcastle Uni Business School
99 William & Mary, College of—Mason School of Business
100 Thunderbird School of Global Management

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit

* Related Post: World Best 100 MBA Programs 2007

Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranked top business schools on four different criteria:Student Exposure, Student Opportunity, Course Content and Faculty Research. Stanford MBA was ranked as the best MBA program globally, followed by Michigan and York.

1 Stanford
2 Michigan (Ross)
3 York (Schulich)
4 UC Berkeley (Haas)
5 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
6 Columbia
7 Cornell (Johnson)
8 Duquesne (Donahue)
9 Yale
10 IE Business School
11 NYU (Stern)
12 UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
13 The George Washington University
14 ESADE Business School
15 RSM Erasmus
16 Calgary (Haskayne)
17 Tecnológico de Monterrey -Campus Monterrey-
18 New Mexico (Anderson)
19 Brandeis (Heller)
20 Colorado, Boulder (Leeds)
21 Western Ontario (Ivey)
22 Portland State
23 British Columbia (Sauder)
24 Virginia (Darden)
25 Dartmouth (Tuck)
26 Duke (Fuqua)
27 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
28 The University of Nottingham
29 UC Davis
30 Wake Forest (Babcock)
31 Babson
32 Simmons
33 Wisconsin-Madison
34 South Florida, St. Petersburg
35 Jyväskylä
36 San Diego
37 San Francisco State
38 Emory (Goizueta)
39 Dalhousie
40 Monterey Institute of International Studies
41 Copenhagen Business School
42 Asian Institute of Management
43 INSEAD
44 Thunderbird
45 McGill
46 Boston College
47 Denver (Daniels)
48 ITT (Stuart)
49 Vanderbilt (Owen)
50 Pepperdine (Graziadio)
51 South Carolina (Moore)
52 IMD - International Institute for Management Development
53 Alberta
54 Boston
55 Bentley (McCallum)
56 Cranfield School of Management
57 Case Western (Weatherhead)
58 Willamette University
59 Concordia (John Molson)
60 Bath
61 HEC Genève
62 Loyola Chicago
63 Oxford (Saïd)
64 HEC Paris
65 Wilfrid Laurier
66 Navarra (IESE)
67 Rice (Jones)
68 North Carolina State
69 Georgia Tech
70 Stellenbosch
71 MIT (Sloan)
72 Pittsburgh (Katz)
73 Georgetown (McDonough)
74 Tulane (Freeman)
75 IESA (Instituto de Estudios Sup. De Administracion)
76 Washington State
77 Seton Hall
78 Vermont
79 Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio
80 Rhodes (Investec)
81 Iowa State
82 CUNY, Baruch (Zicklin)
83 Arizona (Eller)
84 Ashridge
85 Lamar
86 UT Dallas
87 Western Washington
88 National University of Singapore
89 Oregon State
90 Audencia Nantes
91 Curtin Univ of Technology
92 Washington, St. Louis
93 UCLA (Anderson)
94 Michigan Technological
95 Los Andes
96 Cape Town
97 Florida (Warrington)
98 Durham
99 EADA - Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración
100 San Francisco

Source: Beyond Grey Pinstripes

* Popular Post: Financial Times World MBA Rankings 2008

View below for more information about UK Top MBA rankings and League Tables:

Top UK MBA Programs by FT 2009

Top UK Business Schools in 2009

UK and Irish MBA Program Ranking

UK Top MBA Programs in the world 2008

Best 5 UK MBA Schools in the world 2008

Global MBA Rankings 2007 (UK Universities)

Most Popular Business Schools-UK and USA

World MBA Rankings 2006 (UK Schools)

Ranking of UK MBA Programs

Top Business Schools in UK

Top MBA Schools in London

Top Online MBA in UK

Top 15 UK MBA Programs 2001

Heriot-Watt EBS MBA Top Ranking

Ranking of Top 15 UK MBA Schools:

Rank, Institution, FT Score
1 London Business School 65.4
2 University of Oxford: Said; 51.5
3 Manchester Business School 51.0
4 Warwick Business School; 49.5
5 Cranfield School of Management 49.3
6 Edinburgh University Management School; 47.8
7 Imperial College Management School 46.2
8 City Uni Business School 45.4
9 Ashridge Management College; 43.9
10 Nottingham Uni Business School; 43.6
11 Strathclyde Graduate School of Business 43.1
= Univ of Bradford Management Centre; 43.1
13 Leeds Univ Business School; 42.7
14 Lancaster Univ Management School; 42.0
15 Univ of Bath School of Management; 40.1


European Top 10 Schools in Research:
1. LBS
2. Instead
3. Nottingham UBS
4. IMD
5. Leeds UBS
6. Bath
7. Imperial
8. Norwegian School of Management
9. Oxford: Said
10 Bradford

Source: Financial Times 2001

* Related Post: Global MBA Rankings 2007 (UK Universities)

Following are some of the world top ranking MBA schools from the UK:

Top 85 EMBA Progarms by Financial Times 2006:

1 London B School

2 LSE

3 London B School

4 Warwick

5 Imperial

6 Bath

7 Bradford

8 Cranfield

9 Henley

10 Strathclyde

11 Ashridge

12 Edinburgh

13 Durham


EIU Top 100 Full Time MBA 2006:
(11 UK schools made into the Top 50 list)

1 Cambridge,Judge

2 Henley

3 Cranfield

4 London B School

5 Ashridge

6 Warwick

7 Oxford,Said

8 Leeds

9 Bath

10 City,Cass

11 Lancaster

* Next Post: Top UK MBA Schools in 2009

Following are the top performing UK universities in the Global MBA ranking tables 2007:

Financial Times Full Time MBA Ranking 2007:
(Seven UK schools in the World Top 50 list)

1 London Business School

2 Uni of Cambridge: Judge

3 U of Oxford: Saïd

4 Manchester Business School

5 Lancaster U Management School

6 Warwick Business School

7 Cranfi eld School of Management

Economist Global MBA Ranking 2007:
(Five UK schools in the Top 20 list)

1 Uni of Cambridge (Judge)

2 Henley Management College

3 Cranfield School of Management

4 London Business School

5 Ashridge

* Next Post: UK Top MBA Programs in the world 2008

LBS

Following are the Best 5 UK business schools as ranked by the world leading MBA guides:

Whitefield Consulting Worldwide Global MBA Ranking 2008:
Top 5 in UK:-

1 London Business School

2 U of Cambridge (Judge)

3 U of Oxford (Said)

4 Manchester Business Schoo

5 Lancaster U Management School


2008 Distance Learning MBA Rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit:

Top 5 :-

1 Warwick Business School

2 Henley Management College

3 Manchester Business School

4 Open University

5 Bradford University

* Related Post: UK Top MBA Programs in the world 2008

There are many leading business schools in the UK, some of them are ranked highly in the world MBA league tables.

According to the Economist Global MBA Ranking 2008, six UK universities are ranked in the World top 25:

1 (Judge)Univ of Cambridge

2 London Business School

3 Cranfield School of Management

4 Henley Business School at the University of Reading

5 Warwick Business School

6 Ashridge


According to the Financial Times World MBA Rankings 2008, the top 10 UK business schools in the world are:

1. London Business Schoool

2. Univ of Cambridge: Judge

3. Univ of Oxford: Said

4. Lancaster Univ Management School

5. Manchester Business School

6. Warwick Business School

7. Cranfield School of Management

8. Univ of Strathclyde Business School

9. Imperial College London: Tanaka

10. City Univ: Cass


* Next Post: Top UK MBA Programs by FT 2009

Following are some of the top leading business schools in the UK, ranked by world MBA ranking guide:

According to the Whitefield Consulting Worldwide Global MBA Ranking 2009, six UK schools are ranked in the World Top 25 list, with LBS ranked 1st in UK and 3rd gloablly.

UK Rank, Name
1 London Business School

2 University of Cambridge (Judge)

3 University of Oxford (Said)

4 Manchester Business School

5 Lancaster Univ Management School

6 Warwick Business School


According to the Financial Times 2009 MBA league table, the top 10 highest ranked UK institutions in the world are as follows:

1 London Business School (LBS)

2 University of Cambridge: Judge

3 University of Oxford: Saïd

4 Lancaster University Management School

5 Manchester Business School

6 Cranfield School of Management

7 Warwick Business School

8 Imperial College Business School

9 Univ of Strathclyde Business School

10 City Univ: Cass

* LBS is ranked first in UK and in the world ( equal 1st with Wharton School (US) ).

* Related Post: UK Top MBA Programs in the world 2008

Following is the list of Top UK MBA Programs in the Financial times Gloabal MBA rankings 2009.

LBS is ranked first in the world and in the UK for its highest quality MBA programs. Cambridge is ranked 2nd in the UK (World rank: 17th), followed by Oxford (World position: 20th), Lancaster (27th in the world), and Manchester in 32nd globally.

1. London Business School (LBS)
   
2. University of Cambridge: Judge
   
3. University of Oxford: Saïd
   
4. Lancaster University Management School
   
5. Manchester Business School
   
6. Cranfield School of Management
   
7. Warwick Business School
   
8. Imperial College Business School
   
9. Univ of Strathclyde Business School
   
10. City Univ: Cass
    
11. Leeds Univ Business School
    
12. Aston Business School
    
13. Durham Business School
    
14. Birmingham Business School
    
15. Uni of Bath School of Management
    
16. Bradford School of Management/TiasNimbas Business School
    
17. Univ of Edinburgh Business School
    
18. Hult International Business School
    
19. Nottingham Univ Business School
    

Source: Financial Times

* Top Business Schools in UK

For the ranking of top UK MBA programs, plese visit: Ranking of UK MBA Programs

Following are some of the leading business schools in the United Kingdom:

• Ashridge Business School, Hertfordshire
  
• Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham
  
• Birmingham Business School University of Birmingham
  
• Cambridge University, Judge Institute of Management
  
• Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
  
• Cass Business School, London
  
• Cranfield School of Management
  
• Doncaster Business School Doncaster College
  
• Durham Business School
  
• Edinburgh Business School, Scotland
  
• European Business School London
  
• Glamorgan Business School, University of Glamorgan, Wales
  
• Henley Management College (HMC)
  
• Huddersfield University Business School
  
• Hull University Business School
  
• Huron University USA in London, United Kingdom
  
• Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
  
• Lancaster University Management School
  
• London Business School
  
• London School of Business and Finance
  
• Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
  
• Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, MMU
  
• Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School (NTU)
  
• Nottingham University Business School
  
• Open University Business School
  
• Oxford Brookes University Business School
  
• Royal Holloway, University of London School of Management
  
• Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  
• Salford Business School, University of Salford
  
• Sheffield Hallam University
  
• School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University
  
• Tanaka Business School Imperial College, London
  
• Uni College of Swansea
  
• U of Bradford School of Management
  
• U of Edinburgh Business School
  
• U of Exeter School of Business and Economics
  
• U of Greenwich
  
• U of Leeds
  
• U of Leicester, University of Leicester Management Centre
  
• U of Reading
  
• U of Southampton
  
• U of St. Andrews, School of Management
  
• U of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business
  
• U of Warwick

In 2008 The Online Education Database released its second annual Online College Rankings (oedb.org/rankings), recognizing the top 41 undergraduate online degree programs in the country. The rankings are based on schools' scores in eight categories.

Upper Iowa University Tops 2008 Online College Rankings with LeTourneau University at second place and Liberty University at third place. Grand Canyon University dropped down from first place (in 2007) to sixth this year.

Top 20 online undergraduate university / college ranking:

Overall Rank, College
1 Upper Iowa University
2 LeTourneau University
3 Liberty University
4 Nova Southeastern University
5 California University of Pennsylvania
6 Grand Canyon University
7 Regent University
8 Champlain College
9 Westwood College
10 Tiffin University
11 Dickinson State University
12 Walden University
13 National University
14 Fisher College
15 Colorado Technical University
16 ITT Technical Institute
17 Kaplan University
18 Post University
19 Franklin University
20 Peirce College Online

Source: Online Education Database

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Top Universities in US

USA National Universities Ranking 2009

US News & World Report College Rankings 2009

Top US Universities in Webometrics Ranking 2009

Top 20 Online College Rankings

USA Best Traditional Business Schools

USA PhD Program Ranking 2008

US News Professional School Ranking 2008

Top 20 American Universities by THES 2008

American Top National Universities

Top 10 Most Beautiful Campuses

Top Wired Colleges (US)

Princeton Review Rankings

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Top 20 Public and Private Universities

Top Liberal Arts Colleges

US Top Public National Universities 2006

Top Ten Universities in USA 2006

Best Master's Universities (North, South, Midwest and West)
Rollins College: is rated No. 1 among regional universities in the South in the annual rankings of "America's Best Colleges"......

Best Baccalaureate Colleges (North, South, Midwest and West)
Cooper Union is placed No. 1 among baccalaureate colleges (Northern region), No. 1 in graduation rates among baccalaureate colleges in the region......

American University Ranking by Subject
Subjects include Accounting, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Fine Arts, etc.

US Top Best Universities in Global Rankings
Over the years US universities maintain dominance in the world rankings, with majority of the US universities in the world top 100 list......

U.S. News & World Report Ph.D. Program Ranking, 2008 Edition
Total Rank (based on Mean Reputation Score) for Institutions with 9 or More Programs

1 University of California–Berkeley

1 Stanford University (CA)

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4 Princeton University (NJ)

4 Harvard University (MA)

6 Yale University (CT)

6 Uni of Michigan–Ann Arbor

8 Uni of Wisconsin–Madison

8 Uni of Chicago

8 Cornell Uni (NY)

8 Columbia Univ (NY)

12 Univy of California–Los Angeles

13 Univ of Texas–Austin

Source: US News 2008

* Next Post: US News Professional School Ranking

U.S. News & World Report Professional School* Ranking, 2008 Edition:
Total Rank (based on Mean Reputation Score) for Institutions with 4 or More Programs

1 Stanford University (CA)

2 University of California–Berkeley

3 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

4 Harvard University (MA)

5 Northwestern University (IL)

6 Columbia Univ (NY)

7 Duke Univ (NC

8 Univ of Texas–Austin

9 New York Univ

10 Univ of California–Los Angeles

11 Uni of Wisconsin–Madison

12 Uni of Virginia

12 Uni of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign

14 Indiana Uni– Bloomington

15 Uni of Pennsylvania

*Excluding Medicine and Health Professions. Public Affairs ranked in 2004.
Source: U.S. News & World Report 2008

* Popular Post: US News & World Report College Rankings 2009

Top 10 national universities:
1. Harvard,
2. Princeton,
3. Yale,
4. MIT
    Stanford,
6. CIT
    Penn,
8. Columbia,
    Duke,
    Chicago

Top 10 liberal arts colleges are:
1. Amherst
    Williams,
3. Swarthmore,
4. Wellesley,
5. Middlebury,
6. Bowdoin
    Pomona,
8. Carleton,
9. Davidson,
10. Haverford.

Top 10 Best Value schools are:
1. Harvard,
2. Princeton,
3. Yale,
4. MIT,
5. Stanford,
6. CIT,
7. Dartmouth,
8. Columbia,
9. UNC-Chapel Hill,
10. Rice.

Source: US News & World Report 2009

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Ranking of Top US Public National Universities:

1. University of California–Berkeley
2. University of Virginia
3. Univ. of California–Los Angeles
4. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
5. U. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
6. College of William and Mary (VA)
7. Univ. of California–San Diego
8. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
9. Georgia Institute of Technology
10. University of California–Irvine
11. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
12. Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
13.University of Washington
14. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park
15.University of California–Davis
16. University of Florida
17. University of Texas–Austin
18. Univ. of Maryland–College Park
19. U of Georgia
20.U of Pittsburgh
21. Ohio State Uni–Columbus
22.Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)
23.Rutgers–New Brunswick (NJ)
24.Texas A&M Univ.–College Station
25.U of Iowa
26.Miami Uni–Oxford (OH)
27.U of Delaware
28. U of California–Santa Cruz
29.U of Connecticut
30. Indiana Uni–Bloomington
31.Michigan State Uni
32.SUNY–Binghamton
33.Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
34. Clemson Uni (SC)
35.North Carolina State U.–Raleigh
36.U of Colorado–Boulder
37.Virginia Tech
38. Auburn Uni (AL)
39.Iowa State Uni
40.Univ. of California–Riverside
41.Univ. of Missouri–Columbia
42.U of Tennessee
43. SUNY College Environmental Science and Forestry
44.U of Vermont
45. SUNY–Stony Brook
46.U of Arizona
47.U of Kansas
48.Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
49.U of New Hampshire
50. U of Alabama
51.Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst
52. Florida State Univ
53.Ohio Univ
54.U of Missouri–Rolla
55.U of Oklahoma
56.U of South Carolina–Columbia
57. Uni at Buffalo–SUNY
58.U of Oregon
59. Colorado State Uni
60.U of Kentucky
61.Uof Utah
62.Washington State Uni

Source: US News 2006

US News Best Colleges Ranking 2009- National Universities (Top 50 List):

1 Harvard University|Cambridge, MA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,173
2007 Total enrollment: 19,257
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.2 %

2 Princeton University|Princeton, NJ
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,290
2007 Total enrollment: 7,334
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.7 %

3 Yale University|New Haven, CT
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $35,300
2007 Total enrollment: 11,454
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.9 %

4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |Cambridge, MA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,390
2007 Total enrollment: 10,220
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 12.5 %

4 Stanford University |Stanford, CA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,030
2007 Total enrollment: 19,782
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.3 %

6 California Institute of Technology|Pasadena, CA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,437
2007 Total enrollment: 2,133
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.9 %

6 University of Pennsylvania |Philadelphia, PA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,526
2007 Total enrollment: 18,916
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.0 %

8 Columbia University |New York, NY
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $39,326
2007 Total enrollment: 22,655
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.6 %

8 Duke University |Durham, NC
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,525
2007 Total enrollment: 13,598
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.0 %

8 University of Chicago |Chicago, IL
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,632
2007 Total enrollment: 12,336
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.7 %

11 Dartmouth College |Hanover, NH
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,915
2007 Total enrollment: 5,849
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 15.3 %

12 Northwestern University|Evanston, IL
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,125
2007 Total enrollment: 18,028
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 26.8 %

12 Washington University in St. Louis|St. Louis, MO
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,248
2007 Total enrollment: 13,382
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 17.3 %

14 Cornell University |Ithaca, NY
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,504
2007 Total enrollment: 19,800
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 21.4 %

15 Johns Hopkins University |Baltimore, MD
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,700
2007 Total enrollment: 19,737
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.3 %

16 Brown University |Providence, RI
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,718
2007 Total enrollment: 8,167
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 14.0 %

17 Rice University|Houston, TX
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $28,996
2007 Total enrollment: 5,243
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.1 %

18 Emory University |Atlanta, GA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,336
2007 Total enrollment: 12,570
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.2 %

18 University of Notre Dame |Notre Dame, IN
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,847
2007 Total enrollment: 11,733
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.5 %

18 Vanderbilt University |Nashville, TN
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,005
2007 Total enrollment: 11,847
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 32.8 %

21 University of California--Berkeley |Berkeley, CA
2008-2009 In-state: $8,932; Out-of-state: $29,540
2007 Total enrollment: 34,953
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.3 %

22 Carnegie Mellon University |Pittsburgh, PA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,844
2007 Total enrollment: 10,493
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.0 %

23 Georgetown University |Washington, DC
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,122
2007 Total enrollment: 14,826
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 20.8 %

23 University of Virginia |Charlottesville, VA
2008-2009 In-state: $9,300; Out-of-state: $29,600
2007 Total enrollment: 24,257
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 35.2 %

25 University of California--Los Angeles |Los Angeles, CA
2007-2008 In-state: $7,034; Out-of-state: $26,102
2007 Total enrollment: 38,896
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.6 %

26 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor|Ann Arbor, MI
2008-2009 In-state: $11,111; Out-of-state: $32,401
2007 Total enrollment: 41,042
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 50.3 %

27 University of Southern California |Los Angeles, CA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,740
2007 Total enrollment: 33,408
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.3 %

28 Tufts University |Medford, MA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,840
2007 Total enrollment: 9,758
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.5 %

28 Wake Forest University |Winston-Salem, NC
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,975
2007 Total enrollment: 6,788
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 42.4 %

30 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill |Chapel Hill, NC
2008-2009 In-state: $5,396; Out-of-state: $22,294
2007 Total enrollment: 28,136
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.8 %

31 Brandeis University |Waltham, MA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,294
2007 Total enrollment: 5,333
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.4 %

32 College of William and Mary|Williamsburg, VA
2008-2009 In-state: $10,246; Out-of-state: $29,326
2007 Total enrollment: 7,795
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 33.7 %

33 New York University |New York, NY
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,372
2007 Total enrollment: 41,783
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 36.7 %

34 Boston College |Chestnut Hill, MA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,950
2007 Total enrollment: 13,723
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.3 %

35 Georgia Institute of Technology |Atlanta, GA
2008-2009 In-state: $5,272; Out-of-state: $21,386
2007 Total enrollment: 18,742
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 63.4 %

35 Lehigh University |Bethlehem, PA
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,550
2007 Total enrollment: 6,845
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.9 %

35 University of California--San Diego |La Jolla, CA
2008-2009 In-state: $8,911; Out-of-state: $28,932
2007 Total enrollment: 27,020
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 42.5 %

35 University of Rochester |Rochester, NY
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,250
2007 Total enrollment: 9,334
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 41.2 %

35 University of Wisconsin--Madison |Madison, WI
2008-2009 In-state: $7,568; Out-of-state: $21,818
2007 Total enrollment: 42,041
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 56.2 %

40 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign |Champaign, IL
2008-2009 In-state: $11,261; Out-of-state: $25,334
2007 Total enrollment: 42,326
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 71.0 %

41 Case Western Reserve University |Cleveland, OH
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,252
2007 Total enrollment: 9,844
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 74.7 %

41 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |Troy, NY
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,990
2007 Total enrollment: 7,299
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 49.4 %

41 University of Washington |Seattle, WA
2008-2009 In-state: $6,802; Out-of-state: $23,219
2007 Total enrollment: 40,218
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 64.7 %

44 University of California--Davis |Davis, CA
2008-2009 In-state: $8,635; Out-of-state: $28,656
2007 Total enrollment: 29,796
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 58.6 %

44 University of California--Irvine |Irvine, CA
2008-2009 In-state: $7,556; Out-of-state: $27,176
2007 Total enrollment: 26,483
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 55.6 %

44 University of California--Santa Barbara |Santa Barbara, CA
2008-2009 In-state: $8,573; Out-of-state: $29,181
2007 Total enrollment: 21,410
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 54.4 %

47 Pennsylvania State University--University Park |University Park, PA
2008-2009 In-state: $13,706; Out-of-state: $24,940
2007 Total enrollment: 43,252
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 51.0 %

47 University of Texas--Austin |Austin, TX
2007-2008 In-state: $8,130; Out-of-state: $25,722
2007 Total enrollment: 50,170
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 50.7 %

49 University of Florida |Gainesville, FL
2008-2009 In-state: $3,790; Out-of-state: $21,400
2007 Total enrollment: 51,725
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 42.1 %

50 Yeshiva University |New York, NY
2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $32,094
2007 Total enrollment: 6,358
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 69.4 %

According to the Webometrics 2009 Ranking, a total of 70 US institutions made it into the World Top 100 list, with MIT ranked 1st globally. Canada has 8 institutions in the Top 100, followed by UK (6), Japan (2) and China (2).

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 Harvard University
4 University of California Berkeley
5 Cornell University
6 University of Michigan
7 California Institute of Technology
8 University of Minnesota
9 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
10 University of Texas Austin
11 University of Wisconsin Madison
12 University of Washington
13 University of Pennsylvania
14 Pennsylvania State University
15 Carnegie Mellon University
16 Texas A&M University
17 Columbia University New York
18 University of California los Angeles
19 University of Maryland
20 University of Chicago
21 Purdue University
22 University of Florida
23 Michigan State University
24 University of Toronto
25 University of Arizona
26 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
27 Indiana University
28 University of Cambridge
29 New York University
30 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
31 University of California San Diego
32 Johns Hopkins University
33 Georgia Institute of Technology
34 Duke University
34 Rutgers University
36 U of Pittsburgh
37 Princeton Univ
38 U of British Columbia
39 North Carolina State Univ
40 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
41 Yale Univ
42 U of Oxford
43 U of Southern California
44 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
45 U of Virginia
46 U of Colorado Boulder
47 U of California Davis
48 Australian National Univ
49 U of California Santa Barbara
50 Iowa State Univ
51 U of Georgia
52 U of Tokyo
53 Washington Univ Saint Louis
54 Florida State Univ
55 National Taiwan Univ
56 Arizona State Univ
57 U of California Irvine
58 U of Helsinki
59 U of Utah
60 U of Oslo
61 U of Alberta
62 Simon Fraser Univ
63 Université de Montreal
64 U of Oregon
65 U of Edinburgh
66 U of Iowa
67 U of Nebraska Lincoln
68 Univ College London
69 U of Calgary
70 Northwestern Uni
71 Utrecht Uni
72 Boston Uni
73 Ohio State Uni
74 Oregon State Uni
75 Rice Uni
76 U of Missouri Columbia
77 Louisiana State Uni
78 Kyoto Uni
79 U of Connecticut
80 Brigham Young Uni
81 U of Tennessee Knoxville
82 U of Manchester
83 Washington State Uni Pullman
84 Royal Institute of Technology
85 Freie Universitat Berlin
86 George Mason Uni
87 Universidade de São Paulo
88 U of California Santa Cruz
89 Vanderbilt Uni
90 Universitat Wien
91 Mcgill Uni
92 U of Rochester
93 Università di Bologna
94 U of Waterloo
95 Université Catholique de Louvain
96 Université de Geneve
97 State U of New York at Buffalo
98 U of Delaware
99 U of Glasgow
100 U of New Mexico

Source: Webometrics

* Highest ranked university in Canada: Toronto
   Top university in the UK: Cambridge
   Top in Australia: ANU

Following are some of the top leading MBA schools in Melbourne:

• Melbourne Business School
  
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• Monash University
  
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• Deakin Business School, Deakin University School of Business
  
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• Univ of Ballarat School of Management
  
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• RMIT Univ Victoria Graduate School of Business
  
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• Victoria Univ Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
  
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• Swinburne Univ of Technology

Ranking Performance:

- Melbourne Business School is one of the leading business schools in the world. In 2008 MBS Mt Eliza is ranked No. 1 for Executive Education in Asia Pacific by the Financial Times. It is ranked in the World Top 100 MBA programs by the Financial Times in 2005, 2006, and 2007.

- Monash University’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) has topped some of the world’s leading business schools in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2005, with a ranking position of 59th gloablly. It was ranked 6th in the world in the category for personal development and educational experience. It also gained five star ratings in the Good Universities Guide to MBAs and Executive Short Courses 2006 for: corporate links, academic qualifications of staff, assessment of the program by the GMA (national association of MBA graduates).

- RMIT University is ranked 55th in 2004, 82nd in 2005, 146th in 2006, 200th in 2007 and 206th in 2008 by THES-QS World University Rankings.

- Deakin University is awarded five-star rating for its MBA and MBA (International) programs.by the Graduate Management Association of Australia (2009).

- Ballarat is rated 5 star for graduation satisfaction (Good Universities Guide 2006). It is a Top 10 University in Australia (DEST 2005).

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* Top MBA Programs in Sydney

Following are the leading MBA providers in Sydney, Australia:

• Australian Graduate School of Management
  
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• Sydney Graduate School of Management, University of Western Sydney
  
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• Graduate College of Management, Southern Cross University
  
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• Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University
  
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• Graduate School of Business Administration, Univ of New England
  
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• Graduate School of Business and Professional Development, Univ of Wollongong
  
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• Faculty of Business and Law, Univ of Newcastle
  
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• Graduate School of Business, Univ of Technology Sydney (UTS)
  

Ranking Performance:

- The AGSM MBA Program has been ranked as the leading full time MBA Program in Australia and amongst the top 50 MBA programs globally by the Financial Times (UK) ranking of full time MBA programs 2007. AGSM is ranked 32nd in the ranking of the world's top 100 MBA programs by Financial Times 2009.

- The Australian Good Universities Guide has given Wollongong the highest five-star ranking in the categories of 'Getting a Job', 'Graduate Starting Salaries', 'Positive Graduate Outcomes', 'Graduate Rating' and 'Staff Qualifications'. It offers both Advanced MBA and General MBA.

- UTS has achieved accreditation from AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

- The MBA program of Southern Cross Univ is consistently ranked in the top five of Australian universities in terms of overall graduate satisfaction.

Following are some of the top leading B-schools in Australia. They offer full time, part time, online, distance MBA and other business programs to students worldwide.

• Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
  
• Macquarie Graduate School of Management
  
• Australian Graduate School of Management
  
• U of Tech Sydney - Business Faculty
  
• Faculty of Business - Bond Uni
  
• Graduate School of Business - RMIT Uni
  
• Faculty of Business - Queensland Uni of Technology
  
• Deakin Business School
  
• Curtin Business School
  
• Sydney Graduate School of Management, Uni of Western Sydney
  
• Griffith Uni MBA
  
• Uni of Queensland
  
• Mt Eliza Center for Executive Education, Melbourne Business School
  
• National Graduate School of Management - Australian National Univ
  
• Graduate School of Management, Univ of Western Australia
  
• Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria Univ
  

Ranking Performance:

- Melbourne Business School's MBA is ranked 52th globally by the Financial Times (FT) 2009, and 26th in the world by The Economist Intelligence Unit 2008. Its EMBA is ranked 45th by FT 2008.

- MGSM (Macquarie Graduate School of Management) is ranked 1st in Australia and Asia and 40th in the world for its full-time MBA program (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2003). It is also ranked equal 1st of Australian MBA programs (Australian Financial Review BOSS Magazine, 2003) and in the top 40 business schools worldwide for executive education (London Financial Times, 2003).

- Griffith is rated 5 star for its MBA, MBA Advanced and MBA Honours by 2008 Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA).

- RMIT University Graduate School of Business MBA (Executive) is ranked in the top 10 programs in Australia and in the top 3 Melbourne-based programs. (Australian Financial Review (AFR), BOSS Magazine 2007). Its MBA (Executive) was awarded 4 stars in the GMAA ranking system.

- University of South Australia MBA program was rated 5-Star in the 2009 Good Universities Guide. It was the highest ranked program in South Australia.

- Curtin Business School has been ranked top in Western Australia and 5th in Australia for its MBA program, according to the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS magazine.

* Popular Post: Australian Top MBA Rankings

Following are some of the leading accredited universities which offer EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) program in Australia:

• Melbourne Business School (MBS), Victoria
  
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• AGSM, Sydney
  
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• University of Newcastle
  
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• RMIT University, Melbourne
  
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• Queensland University of Technology (QUT) - Brisbane Graduate School of Business (BGSB)
  
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• University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) - Graduate School of Business
  
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• Bond University, Gold Coast
  
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• The University of Western Australia (UWA) - The Graduate School of Management
  
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• The University of Notre Dame - Fremantle Campus, Fremantle
  

Ranking Performance:

- Melbourne Business School (MBS) EMBA is one of only two from Australia included in the Financial Times 2007 survey of business schools offering Executive MBAs. Melbourne Business School’s EMBA is ranked in the world top 50. Average salary of MBS EMBA graduates was ranked 15th globally, work experience of MBS EMBA graduates was ranked 9th.

- The Financial Times (UK) 2007 ranking of EMBA programs placed the AGSM Executive MBA in the top 50 EMBA programs worldwide and No. 1 in Australia, for the seventh consecutive year, with a global ranking of 44th.

* Suggested Reading: RMIT University Top MBA Program

Following are some of the top online MBA schools in Australia:

• Curtin Business School, (Curtin University of Technology), Perth
  
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• Graduate College of Management, (Southern Cross University), Lismore NSW
  
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• Faculty of Business and Law, (University of Newcastle), Newcastle NSW
  
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• Faculty of Business, (Uni of the Sunshine Coast), Maroochydore DC Queensland
  
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• Faculty of Business and Law, (Deakin Uni), Geelong Victoria
  
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• Graduate School of Business Administration, (Uni of New England), Armidale NSW
  
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• Murdoch Business School, Murdoch Univ, Murdoch WA
  
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• Faculty of Business and Law, (Central Queensland Univ)
  
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• International Graduate School of Management, (Univ of South Australia), Adelaide South Australia
  

Ranking Performance:

- Curtin Online MBA has been ranked as the No. 1 in Australia and ranked fourth in the world according to the inaugural distance learning rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) from the publishers of the The Economist Magazine.

- In 2008, the Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA) awarded Deakin's generalist MBA course the highest score of five stars.

- Newcastle Graduate School of Business is one of the first universities to provides MBA course in Australia. The university is ranked in the top 10 among 38 universities in Australia by the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking and 215th globally by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2007.

- Murdoch is ranked 1st in Western Australia for best teaching performance - DEST 2005. Murdoch MBA is a coursework master's degree in Business Administration and comprises of 12 modules broken into 3 award stages: PG Cert, PG Dip and Masters.

View below for more information on Canadian university rankings and league tables:

Maclean's Ranking of Canadian Universities

Maclean’s Guide places universities in one of 3 categories:

• Medical Doctoral University Rankings
  
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• Comprehensive University Rankings
  
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• Primarily Undergraduate University Rankings

Top Medical Doctoral Universities in Canada

Top Comprehensive Universities

Canadian Top Primarily Undergraduate Universities

Top 10 Universities in Canada (Webometrics)

Canadian Top Universities by Groupings 2008