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

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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.