How Executives Rank The World’s Best Business Schools In 2025 by: Jeff Schmitt on April 06, 2025 April 6, 2025 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Johnson MBAs with the Cornell University mascot. Courtesy photo THE VERDICT Like previous years, CEOWORLD taps into a hard-to-reach audience En masse. In the process, they publicize the employer view, something U.S. News underestimates and The Financial Times fails to factor into its methodology. Problem is, CEOWORLD is operating as if its ranking is a prototype. It’s innovative and cool – and riddled with unknowns. Whether that is grounded in inexperience is immaterial. Until CEOWORLD opens up its process and submits its underlying data, the “Best Business Schools in the World” will remain more of a curiosity than an asset. DON’T MISS: POETS&QUANT’S 2024-2025 MBA RANKING: FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, KELLOGG TAKES FIRST Previous PagePage 2 of 2 1 2 © Copyright 2026 Poets & Quants. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Poets & Quants, please submit your request HERE.