Poet&Quants' International MBA Ranking: INSEAD Squeaks Ahead Of IESE To Claim The Top Spot

For its peerless embrace of the social and environmental principles of sustainability, INSEAD is Poets&Quants’ 2023 MBA Program of the Year. Courtesy photos

The Definitive List Of The Top 50 International MBA Programs of 2023-2024 — 1 to 25

The annual Poets&Quants’ MBA ranking takes the two most credible global lists from The Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek and combines them together using weights based on the soundness of each publication’s methodology. Bringing them together this way diminishes the anomalies that often crop up in a given year and also gives applicants a better sense of an overall school’s reputation and brand value. This year’s 2023-2024 list gives an 80% weight to the FT ranking and a 20% weight to Bloomberg Businessweek. For the first time, we’ve dropped from our analysis The Economist and Forbes, both of which no longer publish MBA rankings.

2023 Rank	School Name	2022 Rank	Index	Y-O-Y Change	Financial Times	Business Week
#1	INSEAD	8	100.0	+7	1 (1)	4 (2)
#2	IESE Business School	1	99.6	-1	2 (3)	2 (3)
#3	SDA Bocconi	2	99.0	-1	3 (5)	1 (5)
#4	London Business School	9	97.4	+5	4 (2)	5 (4)
#5	IE Business School	15	94.6	+10	7 (17)	7 (12)
#6	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	26	93.2	+20	19 (15)	6 (18)
#7	Cambridge University (Judge)	11	92.6	+4	8 (8)	10 (8)
#8	CEIBS	14	92.2	+6	6 (6)	20 (21)
#9	Shanghai University of Finance & Economics	NR	90.2	——–	9 (NR)	18 (NA)
#10	IMD	3	89.7	-7	14 (9)	3 (1)
#11	University of Oxford (Said)	13	89.2	+2	12 (10)	11 (9)
#12	ESADE Business School	4	88.2	-8	13 (14)	13 (11)
#13	Indian School of Business	6	82.0	-7	17 (11)	27 (31)
#14	Alliance Manchester Business School	17	81.6	+3	20 (19)	17 (16)
#15	EDHEC Business School	20	81.2	+5	21 (35)	15 (17)
#16	Mannheim Business School	7	78.6	-9	26 (34)	8 (7)
#17	University of St. Gallen	22	77.6	+5	27 (37)	9 (NR)
#18	HEC Paris	10	77.3	-8	5 (4)	NR (NR)
#19	IIM-Bangalore	28	76.6	+9	24 (23)	26 (28)
#20	National University of Singapore	5	73.2	-15	10 (7)	NR (27)
#21	ESCP Business School	43	72.4	+22	11 (22)	NR (NR)
#22	Imperial Business School	16	69.2	-6	15 (13)	NR (23)
#23	Nanyang Business School	27	68.4	+4	16 (16)	NR (NR)
#24	Hong Kong University	19	66.8	-5	18 (26)	NR (NR)
#25	Western University (Ivey)	23	65.8	-2	41 (44)	12 (10)

Note: All ranks in the table are the latest for each of the two most influential international MBA rankings. Ranks for both The Financial Times are U.S. only, not the overall global ranks.

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