The Financial Times Historical MBA Rankings

Why India’s IIM ranks higher than Chicago Booth

A DOZEN YEARS WORTH OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES’ RANKINGS FROM 2001 TO 2012

Rank & School Index 2012 Rank Highest Rank Lowest Rank
  1. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 100.0 3 1 3
  2. Harvard Business School 99.3 2 1 5
  3. Stanford GSB 97.4 1 1 7
  4. Columbia 97.2 5 2 7
  5. London 96.9 4 1 9
  6. INSEAD 95.2 6 4 8
  7. Chicago (Booth) 94.0 12 3 12
  8. MIT (Sloan) 92.2 7 6 14
  9. New York (Stern) 90.7 17 7 17
10. Dartmouth (Tuck) 89.0 19 7 19
11. IMD 87.9 13 11 15
12. Yale 86.8 20 9 20
13. IESE Business School 86.5 9 9 25
14. IE Business School 85.8 8 6 35
15. Northwestern (Kellogg) 85.4 16 9 24
16. Duke (Fuqua) 80.8 15 15 28
17. UC-Berkeley (Haas) 80.4 14 13 32
18. Michigan (Ross) 78.4 29 14 30
19. Oxford (Said) 77.1 20 16 35
20. Virginia (Darden) 76.1 38 14 41
21. Cornell (Johnson) 75.2 24 13 36
22. Emory (Goizueta) 70.0 40 22 42
23. Cambridge (Judge) 69.6 26 10 42
24, Manchester 67.3 31 22 48
25. HEC-Paris 67.0 18 18 67

Source: The Financial Times full-time global MBA rankings NR means not ranked

(See next page for tables of The Financial Times’ historical rankings from 2001 to 2012)

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