The Top 100 Business Schools In 2025, Ranked By Research

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is the unanimous top B-school for research, according to both UT and FT

FINANCIAL TIMES 2025 RESEARCH RANKING

Overall FT Rank 2025	School	Location	Research Rank
1	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	1
2	Columbia Business School	US	2
17	University of Chicago: Booth	US	2
4	INSEAD	France	4
13	Harvard Business School	US	5
54	University of Texas at Dallas: Jindal	US	6
13	Cornell University: Johnson	US	7
7	London Business School	UK	8
34	University of Washington: Michael G. Foster	US	9
39	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	US	10
11	Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business	US	11
76	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	12
19	UCLA Anderson School of Management	US	13
6	MIT: Sloan	US	14
48	University of Florida: Warrington	US	15
42	Washington University: Olin	US	16
15	UC Berkeley: Haas	US	17
41	HKU Business School	Hong Kong	18
31	New York University: Stern	US	19
29	University of Michigan: Ross	US	20
50	University of Southern California: Marshall	US	21
20	Dartmouth College: Tuck	US	22
56	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	23
38	Imperial College Business School	UK	24
10	Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management	US	25
36	HKUST Business School	Hong Kong	25
26	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	27
37	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	28
3	IESE Business School	Spain	29
24	Yale School of Management	US	30
70	Texas A&M University: Mays	US	30
51	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	US	32
65	CUHK Business School	Hong Kong	32
59	Arizona State University: WP Carey	US	34
62	Warwick Business School	UK	35
4	SDA Bocconi School of Management	Italy	36
45	Emory University: Goizueta	US	37
80	ESMT Berlin	Germany	38
75	University of Notre Dame: Mendoza	US	39
9	HEC Paris	France	40
43	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	41
12	CEIBS	China	42
39	Rice University: Jones	US	43
55	University of Georgia: Terry	US	43
53	University of California at Irvine: Merage	US	45
74	Boston University Questrom School of Business	US	45
94	McGill University: Desautels	Canada	45
93	Copenhagen Business School (CBS)	Denmark	48
22	IMD — International Institute for Management Development	Switzerland	49
49	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	US	49
99	Miami Herbert Business School	US	49
20	University of Virginia: Darden	US	52
22	Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore	Singapore	53
58	Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business	US	54
35	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	55
95	University of British Columbia: Sauder	Canada	55
60	University of Rochester: Simon Business School	US	57
86	Western University: Ivey	Canada	58
18	IE Business School	Spain	59
30	Fudan University School of Management	China	60
96	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	61
47	Essec Business School	France	62
83	Brigham Young University: Marriott	US	63
27	Indian School of Business	India	64
67	Bayes Business School	UK	65
63	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	66
66	WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management	Germany	67
25	Peking University: Guanghua	China	68
52	Vanderbilt University: Owen	US	69
8	Esade Business School	Spain	70
71	Mannheim Business School	Germany	71
44	EMLyon Business School	France	72
73	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	72
46	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	74
86	Durham University Business School	UK	74
79	Queen’s University: Smith	Canada	76
89	Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	77
28	ESCP Business School	France	78
67	AGSM at UNSW Business School	Australia	79
31	Tongji University School of Economics and Management	China	80
98	Sungkyunkwan University GSB	South Korea	80
78	Fordham University: Gabelli	US	82
31	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	India	83
77	The Lisbon MBA Catolica \| Nova	Portugal	83
83	Babson College: Olin	US	85
91	University of Edinburgh Business School	UK	86
15	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: College of Business	China	87
90	Audencia	France	88
64	Edhec Business School	France	89
80	William & Mary: Mason	US	90
57	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	India	91
97	University of Glasgow: Adam Smith	UK	92
82	Cranfield School of Management	UK	93
61	Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	India	94
71	Indian Institute of Management Lucknow	India	95
100	Eada Business School Barcelona	Spain	95
83	XLRI — Xavier School of Management	India	97
92	Hult International Business School	US	97
69	Indian Institute of Management Indore	India	99
86	Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode	India	99

Source: Financial Times

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