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

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