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

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QS HISTORICAL DATA: RETURN ON INVESTMENT

2027 Rank Business School 2027 Return on Investment 2026 Return on Investment 2025 Return on Investment
1 MIT (Sloan) 93.1 91.4 90.5
2 Harvard Business School 93.7 91.8 90.4
3 Stanford GSB 94 92.2 90.9
4 Wharton School 94.1 96.1 95
5 Cambridge Judge 83.5 97.6 94.4
6 HEC Paris 99 99.8 100
7 Oxford (Said) 87.4 79.2 71.7
8 INSEAD 97.9 95.4 91
9 London Business School 93.6 92.9 90.9
10 Chicago (Booth) 96.4 94.7 93.3
11 IE Business School 99.6 98.9 98.7
12 UC Berkeley (Haas) 95.3 93.6 91.6
13 Northwestern (Kellogg) 95.6 97.5 97.2
14 Columbia Business School 89.7 93.2 95.7
15 Yale SOM 95.8 98 96
16 IESE Business School 97.7 98.8 98.4
17 NYU (Stern) 93.9 96 96.2
18 UCLA (Anderson) 95.3 97.2 95.5
19 Imperial Business School 84.4 86.4 90.2
20 SDA Bocconi 100 100 100
21 Esade Business School 87.8 91.9 94.3
22 Michigan (Ross) 97.2 99.2 98
23 National University of Singapore 95.9 94.2 81.6
24 ESCP Europe 100 100 100
25 Duke (Fuqua) 94.2 96 96.8
26 ESSEC Business School 92 87.1 89.1
27 IMD Business School 99 99.8 98.3
28 Copenhagen Business School 88.8 91.4 86.9
29 Tsingua University 92 97.1 97.8
30 Warwick Business School 98.5 96.9 92.9
31 Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus) 82.3 79.4 81.8
32 University of North South Wales 80.1 77.8 71.7
33 Cornell (Johnson) 92.7 89.2 89.7
34 Melbourne Business School 76.3 79.3 73
35 USC (Marshall) 91.4 93.4 88.6
36 EDHEC 99.4 99.5 98
37 St. Gallen 95.4 95.3 92.2
38 Mannheim Business School 100 100 100
39 Toronto (Rotman) 63.9 56.5 61.1
40 Texas (McCombs) 96.3 94.4 92.5
41 Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian 96.3 92.6 90.1
42 EMLYON 98.4 96.5 94.5
43 Boston University (Questrom) 83.8 82.7 79.3
44 Alliance Manchester 87.7 93.1 84
45 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 78 80.9 73.5
46 University of Hong Kong 85.9 79.8 83.3
47 University of Sydney 69.2 70.8 70.6
48 Nanyang Business School 79.8 82.7 75.5
48 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 95.6 97.4 98.6
50 Johns Hopkins University (Carey) 86 84.2 NR

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