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

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Esade Students during a Study Visit to the European institutions in Brussels.

QS HISTORICAL DATA: EMPLOYABILITY

2027 Rank Business School 2027 Employability 2026 Employability 2025 Employability
1 MIT (Sloan) 98.6 98.2 98.6
2 Harvard Business School 95.6 96.6 96.4
3 Stanford GSB 95.8 96.7 97.6
4 Wharton School 98.4 98.8 98.6
5 Cambridge Judge 94.2 93.2 94.9
6 HEC Paris 93.7 95.8 97
7 Oxford (Said) 97.3 96.4 95.8
8 INSEAD 97.5 98.1 97.9
9 London Business School 96.2 96.8 98
10 Chicago (Booth) 95.3 95.6 95.7
11 IE Business School 94.6 94.5 95.4
12 UC Berkeley (Haas) 93.3 93.8 94.6
13 Northwestern (Kellogg) 96.2 97.3 97.5
14 Columbia Business School 97.2 94.5 97.3
15 Yale SOM 91.7 92.6 90.6
16 IESE Business School 94.1 93.6 97
17 NYU (Stern) 94 94.3 93.6
18 UCLA (Anderson) 89.8 90.7 92.1
19 Imperial Business School 91.1 91.8 92.4
20 SDA Bocconi 82 84.3 83.6
21 Esade Business School 94.4 95 95
22 Michigan (Ross) 86.1 84.7 83.6
23 National University of Singapore 82.7 83.9 83.9
24 ESCP Europe 80.5 77.4 75.3
25 Duke (Fuqua) 82.7 82.8 83.7
26 ESSEC Business School 73.3 69.6 67.8
27 IMD Business School 79.8 81.4 83.5
28 Copenhagen Business School 78 79.5 81.1
29 Tsingua University 74.1 72 72.9
30 Warwick Business School 69 66.1 64.2
31 Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus) 78.4 74 72.4
32 University of North South Wales 68.3 65.2 63.5
33 Cornell (Johnson) 65.7 64.7 64.6
34 Melbourne Business School 71.7 70.3 72.7
35 USC (Marshall) 68.4 65.2 64.9
36 EDHEC 63.6 59.2 47.8
37 St. Gallen 60.6 54.7 51.8
38 Mannheim Business School 73.1 68.5 65.5
39 Toronto (Rotman) 73 67.8 58.3
40 Texas (McCombs) 64.9 64.2 63.4
41 Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian 61.8 58.8 63.3
42 EMLYON 54.8 50.4 47.8
43 Boston University (Questrom) 72.2 74.2 76.8
44 Alliance Manchester 59.6 55.6 53
45 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 68.8 67 66.4
46 University of Hong Kong 62 61.6 62.6
47 University of Sydney 67 62.8 62.3
48 Nanyang Business School 63.2 63.8 66
48 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 69.2 66.4 66.2
50 Johns Hopkins University (Carey) 62 60.3 NR

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