Top 50 Non-U.S. MBA Programs of 2011

Poets&Quants’ 2011 Best MBA Programs Outside the U.S.

2011 Rank & School	Index	2010 Rank	FT	Economist	BW	Forbes
1. INSEAD Fontainebeau, France	100.0	2	2	6	1	2
2. London Business School London, U.K.	99.7	1	1	3	5	1
3. IE Business School Madrid, Spain	98.2	5	4	9	3	3
4. IMD Lausanne, Switzerland	97.2	3	8	1	7	1
5. IESE Business School Barcelona & Madrid, Spain	95.8	4	5	3	12	3
6. ESADE Business School Barcelona, Spain	95.2	7	11	5	4	6
7. Cambridge (Judge) Cambridge, U.K.	92.5	9	13	11	10	5
8. HEC Paris Paris, France	92.0	6	10	4	14	8
9. Oxford University (Said) Oxford, U.K.	88.9	11	14	23	16	6
10. Cranfield University Cranfield, U.K.	88.6	8	20	8	13	10
11. SDA Bocconi Milan, Italy	88.3	13	15	27	18	4
11. York University (Schulich) Ontario, Canada	88.3	10	27	2	9	10
13. McGill University (Desauteis) West Montreal, Canada	83.8	15	31	26	11	11
14. University of Manchester Manchester, U.K.	81.3	12	16	NR	17	2
15. CEIBS Shanghai, China	62.7	17	9	46	NR	5
16. National University of Singapore Singapore	62.3	NR	12	44	NR	4
16. City University (Cass) London, U.K.	62.3	14	17	13	NR	9
18. HEC Montreal Montreal, Canada	58.3	18	NR	50	15	12
19. Lancaster University Lancaster, U.K.	57.3	16	24	51	NR	7
20. Australian School of Business Sydney, Australia	52.5	20	21	NR	NR	9
21. EM Lyon Lyon, France	52.3	19	48	17	NR	11
22. British Columbia (Sauder) Vancouver, Canada	52.0	24	40	41	NR	12
23. Western Ontario (Ivey) Ontario, Canada	51.9	22	26	NR	6	NR
24. Toronto (Rotman) Toronto, Canada	51.6	21	25	NR	8	NR
25. IPADE Business School Mexico City, Mexico	49.1	28	34	NR	NR	7

(The remaining 25 schools on the top 50 list are on the next page)

Note: The ranking assigned to schools from both the Financial Times and The Economist lists are a school’s non-U.S. ranking. Forbes ranks one-year MBA programs separately from two-year programs so it assigns the same rank to two sets of non-U.S. schools.

Methodology: Schools on each of four major rankings–BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Financial Times, and The Economist– were scored from a high of 100 to a low of 1, the numerical rank of the 100^th school on any one list. Then, those sums were brought together with a weight of 30% for each of the rankings with the exception of The Economist, whose list was given a weight of 10% due to the rankings idiosyncratic results, a function of a methodology that is less credible.

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