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 IE Business School QS HISTORICAL DATA: DIVERSITY 2027 Rank Business School 2027 Diversity 2026 Diversity 2025 Diversity 1 MIT (Sloan) 74.7 72.5 70.5 2 Harvard Business School 73.2 72.7 72.9 3 Stanford GSB 68.7 66.7 68.9 4 Wharton School 76.6 77.3 78.3 5 Cambridge Judge 79.9 77.2 75.2 6 HEC Paris 76.7 73.4 73.6 7 Oxford (Said) 80.8 77.2 72 8 INSEAD 69.5 67.2 67 9 London Business School 72.6 72.6 73.9 10 Chicago (Booth) 70.6 60.3 57.7 11 IE Business School 84.5 86.4 88 12 UC Berkeley (Haas) 73.5 69.7 67.2 13 Northwestern (Kellogg) 67.8 74.4 68 14 Columbia Business School 73.6 70.1 71.1 15 Yale SOM 72.4 71.1 74 16 IESE Business School 73.6 75.4 75.8 17 NYU (Stern) 76.1 74.9 68.7 18 UCLA (Anderson) 69.7 69.1 68.3 19 Imperial Business School 75.4 80.2 74 20 SDA Bocconi 76.3 73.9 69.5 21 Esade Business School 77.9 73.6 76.2 22 Michigan (Ross) 61.1 60.9 67.3 23 National University of Singapore 82.7 77.9 70.9 24 ESCP Europe 99.4 98.5 97.1 25 Duke (Fuqua) 73.3 72.4 70.1 26 ESSEC Business School 94.9 93.8 92.1 27 IMD Business School 69 73.3 69.8 28 Copenhagen Business School 78.4 69.1 69.7 29 Tsingua University 66.4 61.9 59.9 30 Warwick Business School 83.9 86.2 81.8 31 Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus) 80.6 77.8 74.7 32 University of North South Wales 91.9 93.8 91.7 33 Cornell (Johnson) 70.9 68 67.8 34 Melbourne Business School 66.2 65.6 67 35 USC (Marshall) 67.7 65 66.9 36 EDHEC 92.8 88.9 83.2 37 St. Gallen 65.2 71.7 67.9 38 Mannheim Business School 54 48.3 48.8 39 Toronto (Rotman) 78.2 81.1 85.9 40 Texas (McCombs) 50.4 55.6 56.4 41 Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian 75.1 78.8 72 42 EMLYON 85 89.1 84.8 43 Boston University (Questrom) 68.8 72.5 68.4 44 Alliance Manchester 78.2 79.6 86.2 45 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 72 65 60.2 46 University of Hong Kong 69.6 70.3 65 47 University of Sydney 77.8 82.1 71.2 48 Nanyang Business School 72.6 73 71.6 48 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 70 55.1 52.5 50 Johns Hopkins University (Carey) 85 89.5 NR DON’T MISS: 2026 FINANCIAL TIMES MBA RANKING: MIT TOPS LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME STANFORD RETURNS TO NO. 1 IN 2026 U.S. NEWS MBA RANKING AS VOLATILITY RIPPLES ACROSS THE LIST 2026 BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK MBA RANKING: STANFORD DOMINATES, VIRGINIA DARDEN RISES 2026 LINKEDIN MBA RANKING: STANFORD REIGNS, INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CRACKS THE TOP 5 Previous PagePage 9 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.