2026 QS Global MBA Ranking: A New #1 Tops Stanford, Harvard & WhartonMIT Sloan defies the critics with its second No. 1 ranking of the year by: Jeff Schmitt on September 16, 2026 | 18 minute read September 16, 2026 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit HEC Paris studnets on bridge – courtesy photo QS MBA RANKING VS. THE FINANCIAL TIMES & LINKEDIN 2027 QS Rank 2026 FT Rank 2026 LinkedIn Rank Business School 1 1 6 MIT (Sloan) 2 10 2 Harvard Business School 3 NR 1 Stanford GSB 4 3 3 Wharton School 5 17 27 Cambridge Judge 6 6 25 HEC Paris 7 27 14 Oxford (Said) 8 2 4 INSEAD 9 4 10 London Business School 10 20 13 Chicago (Booth) 11 21 34 IE Business School 12 9 16 UC Berkeley (Haas) 13 11 9 Northwestern (Kellogg) 14 NR 8 Columbia Business School 15 17 11 Yale SOM 16 4 23 IESE Business School 17 23 18 NYU (Stern) 18 32 24 UCLA (Anderson) 19 39 36 Imperial Business School 20 NR 63 SDA Bocconi 21 7 44 Esade Business School 22 34 32 Michigan (Ross) 23 29 69 National University of Singapore 24 22 40 ESCP Europe 25 16 12 Duke (Fuqua) 26 24 35 ESSEC Business School 27 30 22 IMD Business School 28 85 76 Copenhagen Business School 29 NR NR Tsingua University 30 70 49 Warwick Business School 31 52 39 Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus) 32 48 74 University of North South Wales 33 15 17 Cornell (Johnson) 34 NR 67 Melbourne Business School 35 46 28 USC (Marshall) 36 47 59 EDHEC 37 58 57 St. Gallen 38 65 NR Mannheim Business School 39 81 51 Toronto (Rotman) 40 41 48 Texas (McCombs) 41 57 NR Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian 42 41 81 EMLYON 43 64 65 Boston University (Questrom) 44 49 60 Alliance Manchester 45 24 58 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 46 NR NR University of Hong Kong 47 NR 94 University of Sydney 48 44 96 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 49 12 NR Nanyang Business School 50 NR 70 Johns Hopkins (Carey) Next Page: Thought Leadership Historical Data Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 4 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 © 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.