2026 QS Global MBA Ranking: A New #1 Tops Stanford, Harvard & Wharton

MIT Sloan defies the critics with its second No. 1 ranking of the year

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)

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