2012 Financial Times Ranking of the Best B-Schools

Rank & School	2011 Rank	Change	Weighted Salary	Pay Increase*
51. Coppead	NR	+50*	$110,103	151%
51. Texas A&M (Mays)	44	-7	$108,606	134%
51. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	49	-2	$108,606	134%
54. Peking Univ. (Guanghua)	NR	+47*	$79,914	201%
54. University of Cape Town GSB	60	+6	$141,490	90%
56. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	62	+6	$118,959	92%
57. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	46	-11	$105,726	117%
58. Maryland (Smith)	40	-18	$109,375	92%
59. York (Schulich)	49	-10	$88,283	100%
59. Purdue (Krannert)	74	+15	$103,304	112%
61. Washington (Olin)	NR	+40*	$106,668	105%
61. Vanderbilt (Owen)	51	-10	$114,265	101%
61. Southern California (Marshall)	64	+3	$121,060	94%
61. McGill (Desauteis)	57	-4	$89,623	97%
65. Hult International	61	-4	$100,631	95%
66. Sungkyunkwan University	NR	+35*	$100,779	102%
66. Ohio State (Fisher)	72	+6	$105,426	113%
68. Western Ontario (Ivey)	46	-22	$100,738	88%
69. Boston College (Carroll)	74	+5	$109,440	95%
70. Vierick Leuven Gent	55	-15	$94,661	88%
71. Lancaster University	41	-30	$97,124	88%
72. Minnesota (Carlson)	NR	+29*	$108,994	96%
73. Univ. of Washington (Foster)	86	+13	$109,088	90%
74. Georgia Institute of Technology	97	+23	$110,116	86%
74. Wisconsin School of Business	63	-11	$108.990	109%

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.

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