Poets&Quants' 2025-2026 International MBA Ranking

INSEAD is Poets&Quants‘ No. 1 international MBA program for the 11th time in 16 years

The Definitive List Of The Top 50 International MBA Programs of 2025-2026 — 1 to 25

The annual Poets&Quants’ MBA ranking takes the three most credible global lists from The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and LinkedIn, following the discontinuation of MBA rankings by The Economist and Forbes. The ranking combines these three using weights based on the soundness and importance to prospective students 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 2025-2026 list gives a 60% weight to the FT ranking, a 20% weight to Bloomberg Businessweek and another 20% to LinkedIn’s MBA ranking.

P&Q Rank	School	2024 Rank	Index	Location	Financial Times	Businessweek	LinkedIn
1	INSEAD	1	100	France/Singapore/UAE	2 (1)	5 (5)	1 (1)
2	IESE Business School	2	99.59	Spain	1 (3)	3 (2)	8 (7)
3	London Business School	3	98.58	UK	4 (4)	4 (4)	3 (3)
4	SDA Bocconi	4	96.75	Italy	2 (2)	1 (3)	21 (28)
5	IMD	9	94.12	Switzerland	10 (18)	2 (1)	9 (9)
6	ESADE Business School	6	93.31	Spain	5 (6)	10 (9)	20 (22)
7	University of Oxford (Said)	5	92.49	UK	13 (11)	6 (7)	4 (5)
7	IE Business School	6	92.49	Spain	9 (7)	7 (12)	15 (16)
9	Indian School of Business	11	88.84	India	14 (17)	23 (27)	2 (2)
10	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	12	88.24	Hong Kong	20 (17)	14 (11)	26 (21)
11	Cambridge University (Judge)	8	86.00	UK	19 (14)	11 (8)	13 (13)
12	IIM-Bangalore	13	79.92	India	28 (24)	20 (19)	7 (11)
13	HEC Paris	14	76.27	France	6 (5)	NR (NR)	7 (8)
14	University of St. Gallen	15	75.66	Switzerland	31 (33)	8 (6)	31 (20)
15	EDHEC Business School	16	75.46	France	32 (26)	18 (27)	19 (29)
16	Shanghai University of Finance & Economics	17	74.44	China	8 (9)	13 (14)	NR (NR)
17	IIM-Ahmedabad	19	70.39	India	17 (21)	NR (NR)	6 (6)
18	ESCP Business School	18	69.17	France	15 (10)	NR (NR)	18 (19)
19	Imperial Business School	20	65.11	UK	22 (20)	NR (NR)	17 (14)
19	Cranfield School of Management	20	65.11	UK	45 (45)	17 (13)	32 (27)
21	Western University (Ivey)	24	64.50	Canada	47 (49)	21 (15)	25 (26)
22	ESSEC Business School	25	63.69	France	26 (25)	NR (NR)	12 (15)
23	IIM-Calcutta	31	63.29	India	29 (35)	NR (NR)	5 (10)
24	Rotterdam School of Management	32	62.68	Netherlands	27 (29)	NR (NR)	14 (35)
25	EMLyon	29	60.65	France	24 (27)	NR (NR)	33 (31)

Note: All ranks in the table are the latest for each of the three most influential international MBA rankings. Ranks for all lists are for international schools only, not the overall global ranks.

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