A league of their own: the top 10 MBA programmes in selected categories Based on the 2012 graduates’ ratings of their programme
Top for corporate strategy Top for e-business Top for economics Top for entrepreneurship Top for finance
Rank Business School Rank Business School Rank Business School Rank Business School Rank Business School 1 Lancaster University Management School 1 Stanford Graduate School of Business 1 University of Chicago: Booth 1 Babson College: Olin 1 University of Iowa: Tippie 2 Harvard Business School 2 University of California at Berkeley: Haas 2 Renmin University of China School of Business 2 Stanford Graduate School of Business 2 Columbia Business School 3 Incae Business School 3 Nanyang Business School 3 Cranfield School of Management 3 MIT: Sloan 3 University of Pennsylvania: Wharton 4 University of Michigan: Ross 4 MIT: Sloan 4 Yale School of Management 4 University of California at Berkeley: Haas 4 University of Chicago: Booth 5 University of Strathclyde Business School 5 Carnegie Mellon: Tepper 5 Western University: Ivey 5 UCLA: Anderson 5 New York University: Stern 6 Ipade Business School 6 University of Maryland: Smith 6 Incae Business School 6 Imperial College Business School 6 Macquarie Graduate School of Management 7 Dartmouth College: Tuck 7 IE Business School 7 Dartmouth College: Tuck 7 Insead 7 London Business School 8 City University: Cass 8 New York University: Stern 8 Warwick Business School 8 University of Texas at Austin: McCombs 8 Incae Business School 9 University of Cambridge: Judge 9 University of Pennsylvania: Wharton 9 University of St Gallen 9 University of Cambridge: Judge 9 University of Rochester: Simon 10 Northwestern University: Kellogg 10 University of Washington: Foster 10 University of Hong Kong 10 University of Oxford: Saïd 10 Rice University: Jones
*As rated by 2011 graduates Top for general management Top for industrial/ manufacturing/ logistics Top for international business Top for IT/ computing Top for law
Rank Business School Rank Business School Rank Business School Rank Business School Rank Business School 1 University of Virginia: Darden 1 Carnegie Mellon: Tepper 1 Leeds University Business School 1 Carnegie Mellon: Tepper 1 Yale School of Management 2 Harvard Business School 2 MIT: Sloan 2 Insead 2 Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller 2 University of Hong Kong 3 Dartmouth College: Tuck 3 Michigan State University: Broad 3 Georgetown University: McDonough 3 MIT: Sloan 3 University of San Diego SBA 4 Ipade Business School 4 Ohio State University: Fisher 4 Edhec Business School 4 Stanford Graduate School of Business 4 New York University: Stern 5 Stanford Graduate School of Business 5 University of Pittsburgh: Katz 5 Lancaster University Management School 5 Boston University: Questrom 5 University of Connecticut School of Business 6 Northwestern University: Kellogg 6 Pennsylvania State University: Smeal 6 University of St Gallen 6 University of California at Berkeley: Haas 6 Grenoble Graduate School of Business 7 Iese Business School 7 Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller 7 The Lisbon MBA 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai 7 University of Pennsylvania: Wharton 8 Lancaster University Management School 8 Warwick Business School 8 George Washington University 8 University of Maryland: Smith 8 Edhec Business School 9 IIM, Ahmedabad 9 University of Michigan: Ross 9 London Business School 9 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9 Washington University: Olin 10 Queen’s University: Smith 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai 10 University of Cambridge: Judge 10 University of California at Irvine: Merage 10 Cornell University: Johnson