What are the top 10 business schools globally?

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Request for Question Clarification by knowledge_seeker-ga on 09 Jun 2003 14:28 PDT

malcomtk,

I've researched the rankings of a number of types of schools for
different questions, and I am not sure there exists any world-wide
ranking for schools - business or otherwise. I imagine it would be
difficult to compare schools cross-culturally.

If you would like to narrow down your scope a bit, I'm sure someone
will be able to find you an answer.

-K~

Dear Malcom tk, 

Ranking of schools in general, and of business schools as part of it,
is controversial, as my collegue omnivorous-ga has well commented.

However, the site BSchools.com holds a comparative list of rankings
from different sources, including international ones.

According to the Business Week
<http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/00/> ranking, the list is:
1. INSEAD
2. Queen's University
3. IMD 
4. London Business School
5. U. of Toronto (Rotman)
6. U. of Western Ontario (Ivey)
7. Rotterdamm SOM
8. IESE
9. HEC Paris
10. York University (Schulich)


The Economist Intelligence Unit (www.economist.com) has different
rankings, which goes to show how the ranking business is nothing but
accurate:
1. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
2. Dartmouth (Tuck)
3. Duke (Fuqua)
4. University of Chicago
5. Stanford University
6. Columbia
7. UCLA (Anderson)
8. IMD
9. University of Virginia (Darden)
10. Yale

Source for both: http://www.bschool.com/intlsbys.html 

I hope that answered your question. If you need any further
clarifications on this answer, please let me know. I'd be pleased to
clarify my answer before you rate it.

Malcomtk --

You may want to look at this excellent and complete answer by
Pelican-GA on rankings of graduate schools:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=121902

It basically notes that while some publications, most notably U.S.
News & World Report, have tried (and been very controversial) to rate
U.S. schools, there really isn't an authority for international
ratings.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

This is a very subjective topic, but I find it noteworthy that the
Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) is typically rated in the
top few by most major rankings and it was not included in either of
the lists provided in this answer. Certain other schools included in
the top 10 in the answer are rarely considered top tier b schools.

As a former MBA applicant, I've found the aforementioned surveys to be
excellent resources, however there are a couple other lists you need
to check out.
 
The _Financial Times_ of London provides *the* most comprehensive list
(100 schools) of world-wide business school rankings. The list is
here: http://news.ft.com/jobs/mba

Also, _The Wall Street Journal_  provides global rankings. The link is
here: http://www.careerjournal.com/specialreports/bschool03/glance/top50.html

WSJ commingles domestic schools with foreign ones, which I post
separately below, with their corresponding rank:
21) IMD International  27) Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)  28) IPADE  33) Escuela Superior de
Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)  37) Insead  42)
University of Western Ontario (Ivey)  43) Instituto de Empresa  45)
University of London (London Business School)  46) University of
Toronto (Rotman)

A general note: carefully study the methodology b/w the various
surveys. Drastic differences account for the widely varying survey
results. For example, FT includes diversity-measurement factors such
as % of women faculty, whereas WSJ--which is strictly
placement/recruiter-focused--ignores such data points.

Hope that helps, astyanax-ga