Poets&Quants’ 2016 Ranking Of The Best International Business Schools

Melbourne Business School jumped 18 places in the 2016 ranking to finish 20th

The Definitive List Of The Top International MBA Programs of 2016 — 1 to 25

2016

Rank

School Name 2015 Rank Index Financial

Times

The Economist Business

Week

Forbes
#1 INSEAD 1 100.0 1 (2) 4 (2) 2 (3) 1 (1)
#2 London Business School 2 98.9 2 (1) 9 (9) 1 (2) 1 (1)1
#3 IESE Business School 3 97.6 8 (3) 1 (3) 5 (7) 2 (2)
#4 IE Business School 4 96.9 4 (4) 5 (5) 6 (4) 5 (5)
#4 IMD 6 96.9 5 (10) 7 (12) 7 (5) 2 (2)
#6 HEC Paris 5 96.2 7 (8) 2 (1) 11 (10) 3 (3)
#7 Cambridge (Judge) 7 94.4 3 (6) 24 (25) 4 (8) 3 (3)
#8 SDA Bocconi 9 92.7 12 (12) 13 (19) 8 (12) 4 (4)
#9 ESADE 7 89.5 10 (9) 19 (7) 12 (11) 10 (10)
#10 Oxford (Saïd) 10 87.6 14 (11) 36 (33) 3 (6) 7 (7)
#11 Hong Kong UST 12 87.2 6 (7) 27 (34) 29 (25) 5 (5)
#12 Warwick Business School 14 85.6 27 (21) 6 (6) 22 (NR) 8 (8)
#13 Cranfield School of Management 11 85.5 31 (23) 16 (20) 14 (13) 6 (6)
#14 National University of Singapore 16 80.6 17 (16) 48 (40) 21 (NR) 7 (7)
#15 CEIBS 13 72.7 9 (4) NR (NR) 24 (21) 4 (4)
#16 Manchester Business School 15 69.5 21 (19) NR (NR) 19 (19) 6 (6)
#17 Lancaster School of Management 17 66.7 19 (26) 31 (39) NR (NR) 9 (9)
#18 Mannheim Business School 18 55.6 29 (29) 14 (14) 20 (27) NR (NR)
#19 ESMT 19 54.1 36 (33) 18 (18) 13 (15) NR (NR)
#20 Melbourne Business School 38 53.1 46 (45) 12 (15) 9 (23) NR (NR)
#21 Western (Ivey) 23 50.6 47 (48) 22 (27) 10 (1) NR (NR)
#22 St. Gallen 22 50.2 33 (34) 39 (29) 16 (14) NR (NR)
#23 Rotterdam School of Management 21 50.1 24 (23) 43 (32) 26 (26) NR (NR)
#24 Australian Graduate School of Management 25 46.6 37 (37) NR (NR) NR (NR) 11 (11)
#25 Queen’s University 24 46.2 49 (43) 33 (36) 18 (9) NR (NR)

Source: Poets&Quants composite ranking

Notes: NR is not ranked; Ranks shown for The Financial Times and The Economist are for non-U.S. schools; Year-earlier rank given inside ().

(See following page for the next 25 business schools on the list)

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