2012 Financial Times Ranking of the Best B-Schools

The 2012 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking

Rank & School 2011 Rank Change Weighted Salary Pay Increase*
26. Cambridge (Judge) 26 $132,758 96%
27. Warwick Business School 58 +31 $118,151 94%
28. Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong NR +73* $100,408 160%
29. Michigan (Ross) 24 -5 $129,649 101%
30. Erasmus (Rotterdam) 36 +6 $103,628 114%
31. Manchester Business School 29 -2 $117,016 116%
32. UCLA (Anderson) 31 -1 $136,331 108%
33. ESADE 21 -12 $114,988 115%
34. Nanyang Business School 33 -1 $102,350 129%
35. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 41 +6 $132,325 109%
36. Cranfield 34 -2 $125,196 88%
37. University of Hong Kong NR +64* $106,720 121%
38. Virginia (Darden) 41 +3 $134,936 109%
38. City University (Cass) 32 -6 $111,552 86%
40. Emory (Goizueta) 38 -2 $124,832 111%
41. Australian School of Business 35 -6 $118,943 90%
42. SDA Bocconi 28 -14 $102,854 120%
43. Georgetown (McDonough) 38 -5 $123,290 107%
44. Toronto (Rotman) 46 +2 $94,255 101%
45. Rice (Jones) 47 +2 $118,617 117%
46. Indiana (Kelley) 73 +27 $113,217 118%
46. Melbourne Business School 53 +7 $110,701 78%
46. Imperial College 37 -9 $104,619 74%
49. Rochester (Simon) 52 +3 $112,992 129%
49. Penn State (Smeal) 59 +10 $109,114 125%

Source: The Financial Times 2012 global MBA ranking * Indicates that the school had to rise at least by the number of places and possibly more because the school was not on the FT top 100 last year.

(The next 25 best schools are on the following page)

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