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QS HISTORICAL DATA: THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

2027 Rank	Business School	2027 Thought Leadership	2026 Thought Leadership	2025 Thought Leadership
1	MIT (Sloan)	99.2	98.9	99.1
2	Harvard Business School	96.8	96.7	96.5
3	Stanford GSB	95.7	95.1	95.2
4	Wharton School	98.1	96.8	95.9
5	Cambridge Judge	99.5	98.5	98.1
6	HEC Paris	97.3	96.3	95.3
7	Oxford (Said)	98.5	98.9	99.1
8	INSEAD	97.5	94.3	90.5
9	London Business School	98.1	97.5	97.7
10	Chicago (Booth)	95	94.1	94.3
11	IE Business School	81.5	78.7	76.8
12	UC Berkeley (Haas)	95.8	98.5	95.9
13	Northwestern (Kellogg)	91.2	89.2	85.7
14	Columbia Business School	95.5	94.6	93.7
15	Yale SOM	91.1	88	89.1
16	IESE Business School	86.3	84.5	82.8
17	NYU (Stern)	85.6	94.9	81.1
18	UCLA (Anderson)	87.6	91.7	91.1
19	Imperial Business School	92.5	92.2	90.2
20	SDA Bocconi	85.7	88.8	90.3
21	Esade Business School	82.3	80.3	75.7
22	Michigan (Ross)	84.5	84.3	79.8
23	National University of Singapore	82.3	82.5	86.3
24	ESCP Europe	75.7	74.3	71.6
25	Duke (Fuqua)	78	79.6	78.8
26	ESSEC Business School	87.3	86.1	83.7
27	IMD Business School	67.3	66.7	64.7
28	Copenhagen Business School	84.5	87.8	88.5
29	Tsingua University	90.9	92.4	94.3
30	Warwick Business School	88.4	88.4	86.5
31	Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus)	89.3	88.5	88.1
32	University of North South Wales	84.2	86	89.2
33	Cornell (Johnson)	80.6	82.1	81
34	Melbourne Business School	91.4	92.9	91.8
35	USC (Marshall)	65.7	67.1	65.8
36	EDHEC	66.9	66.9	63.5
37	St. Gallen	77.1	74.7	73
38	Mannheim Business School	70.5	68.7	67.7
39	Toronto (Rotman)	86.9	83.5	82.1
40	Texas (McCombs)	73.1	76.3	76.9
41	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian	82.9	84	86.4
42	EMLYON	73.1	74	71.7
43	Boston University (Questrom)	56.1	57.7	57.3
44	Alliance Manchester	86.6	88.7	85.1
45	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	84.5	87	88.9
46	University of Hong Kong	75.3	78.9	81.6
47	University of Sydney	83.3	85	83.8
48	Nanyang Business School	84.3	85.8	87.3
48	Georgia Tech (Scheller)	61.7	66	63.5
50	Johns Hopkins University (Carey)	54	53.9	NR

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