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BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT STUDIES: 2026 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING

2026 Rank	2025 Rank	Institution	Index Score	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation	Citations Per Paper	H-index Citations
1	1	Harvard	95.2	98	100	70.3	91.3
2	3	Stanford	91	93.1	95.8	70.6	86.9
3	2	MIT	90.9	92.9	95.1	71	88.2
4	4	INSEAD	89.8	100	82	71.3	80.6
5	5	University of Oxford	89.5	89.1	82	71.3	80.6
6	5	University of Cambridge	89.2	88.4	95.9	71	91.1
7	9	University of Pennsylvania	88.9	96.3	82.9	71.3	87.3
8	8	National University of Singapore	88.8	90.6	90.5	71.2	91.8
9	7	London Business School	88.2	99	78.8	71.8	78.9
10	10	Bocconi University	87.4	94.8	80.4	71.5	86.9
11	12	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	85.7	90.8	84.3	66.4	83.6
12	13	HEC Paris	85.4	94.4	79.7	68.6	74.6
13	11	U.C. Berkeley	84.7	85.1	86.2	73	89.5
14	14	Nanyang Technological University	83.8	84.1	85.2	71.6	89.9
15	20	Columbia University	82.7	84	84.3	68.4	85.9
16	17	New York University	82.2	85.6	79.4	69.3	86.4
17	17	Northwestern University	81.5	88.8	71.3	71.1	85.7
18	24	Universitat Ramon Llull	81.3	87.2	71.7	75.2	87.1
19	15	Copenhagen Business School	81.2	93.1	58.6	73.9	96.6
20	16	Yale University	81	78.9	90.1	67.5	77.5
21	27	IIM Ahmedabad	80.8	81.6	82	72	82.4
22	37	Imperial College London	80.5	77.1	85.5	73.7	86.2
22	21	Tecnologico de Monterrey	80.5	83	79.7	67.1	83.9
24	17	Erasmus University Rotterdam	80.3	85.9	69.3	71.3	94
24	22	University of Chicago	80.3	85.7	76.7	67.7	77.1

ECONOMICS: 2026 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING

2026 Rank	2025 Rank	Institution	Index Score	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation	Citations Per Paper	H-index Citations
1	1	Harvard University	99.1	100	100	95.6	100
2	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	97.8	98.7	95.6	99.8	96.3
3	3	Stanford University	96.6	96.2	95.8	97.4	97.3
4	4	University of Chicago	94	95.8	79.4	100	99.2
5	5	Princeton University	93.8	97.8	82.3	96.8	94.2
6	8	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	93.1	97	85.5	90.4	95.4
7	6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	93	93.9	86.6	94	96.4
8	9	University of Oxford	92.3	93.5	97	86.3	91.4
9	7	Yale University	92.1	92.1	90.2	95	91.2
10	10	University of Cambridge	90.4	91.7	96.4	85.3	86.9
11	11	Columbia University	89.5	88.6	85.1	92	93.3
12	15	New York University (NYU)	86.9	86.3	81.8	89	90.9
12	14	University of Pennsylvania	86.9	85.9	83.1	90.4	89.1
14	13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	86.6	84.9	82.9	91.3	89.1
14	16	National University of Singapore (NUS)	86.6	88.1	87.6	83.9	85.3
16	12	Northwestern University	86.2	86.6	72.6	93.7	91.4
17	18	UCL	85.9	86.8	80.8	86.4	88.7
18	17	Bocconi University	85.8	86.3	78.8	88.7	88.7
19	20	Peking University	84.2	82.2	84.5	84.1	88
20	18	Tsinghua University	83.9	80	84.7	86.7	87.9
21	21	University of Toronto	83.5	81	82.6	87.1	85.6
22	23	University of British Columbia	82.9	81.3	80.4	86.1	85.3
23	29	ETH Zurich	82.2	80.2	80.5	87	83.3
24	26	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	82	81.2	67.9	93.2	86.5
25	36	The University of Warwick	81.8	80.4	73.6	87.3	87.1

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