If you’re looking forward to bagging an MBA, this is just the right place for you. In this article I will outline the best schools to get an MBA degree from. Stay glued!
Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
In recent rankings, GSB was ranked 3rd by the U.S. News & World Report, 1st by Bloomberg Businessweek, 1st by QS Top Universities, and in the ranking aggregator Poets & Quants Stanford’s MBA Program was ranked 1st in the US.The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the most selective business school in the United States. It has maintained the highest ratio of applicants to available seats of any business school in the U.S. for the last decade. It has also had the lowest acceptance rates of any business school. For the Class of 2022 which entered in 2020, 8% of applicants were offered admission, and the average GMAT score of 733 and average GPA of 3.8 are the highest of any business school in the world.
Harvard Business School (USA)
In 2022, HBS is ranked 5th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, 3rd in the world by the Financial Times,2nd in the world by QS. The school’s faculty are divided into 10 academic units: Accounting and Management; Business, Government and the International Economy; Entrepreneurial Management; Finance; General Management; Marketing; Negotiation, Organizations & Markets; Organizational Behavior; Strategy; and Technology and Operations Management.
HEC PARIS (FRANCE)
Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence/Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees. A Bachelor’s degree requires the completion of 180 ECTS credits a Master’s requires an additional 120 ECTS credits. HEC Paris does not offer a bachelor’s degree; its highly coveted PGE (Program Grand Ecole) ends with the awarding of Master’s in Management (M.M.) degree. Outside of the PGE, students at HEC can be awarded other Masters degrees, such as the MBA, or a PhD.
MIT Sloan ( USA)
Academic rigor has a strong influence on the school’s culture. The first semester, also known as the core, is often considered the most difficult semester by design. Courses are graded using letter grades and on the standard five-point MIT scale. In its graduate programs, anything less than a 4.0 (‘B’) average will result in the student not being allowed to graduate. Unlike most business schools, MIT Sloan does not offer any academic honors at graduation, consistent with the practice throughout all of MIT. The philosophy behind this is that the ‘honor’ is in being an MIT graduate.
London Business School (UK)
The school’s flagship programme is its full-time 15–21-month Master of Business Administration degree. MBA students take a prescribed set of core courses then choose from roughly 70 different electives. Class size has been around 400 students in every annual cohort. These are broken into 5 streams of approximately 80 students who take all core courses together. The admission process is highly competitive and selective.
IE Business School (Spain)
IE Business School is centrally situated in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid’s financial district. The IE campus currently occupies a total area of some 28,000 square meters, distributed among 17 buildings along and near Calle Maria de Molina.In addition to the existing IE Business school campus, IE University has a new campus, known as “Campus IE”, located in the north of Madrid. The new campus hosts 6,000 students and has an area of 50,000 square meters.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. (USA)
The school’s faculty are divided into 10 academic units: Accounting and Management; Business, Government and the International Economy; Entrepreneurial Management; Finance; General Management; Marketing; Negotiation, Organizations & Markets; Organizational Behavior; Strategy; and Technology and Operations Management.
INSEAD (FRANCE)
Its MBA, taught in English, is consistently ranked among the best in the world. The MBA has produced the second most CEOs of the world’s 500 largest companies, second only to Harvard Business School’s, and the sixth most billionaires.Despite its relatively small size as a specialist, graduate-only university, INSEAD educated 2nd most C-suite executives of listed companies in the world’s 19 biggest economies, only second to Harvard University and ahead of University of Oxford. INSEAD is among the top 20 universities globally that produced the most of the world’s ultra high-net-worth individuals.
Columbia Business School (USA)
The Columbia MBA Program is one of the most competitive in the world with an admission rate of 13.6% for the 2021 entering class. The student body is highly accomplished and diverse. Students in the class that entered in 2009 come from 61 countries and speak more than 50 languages.The revised core curriculum, launched in the fall of 2008, represents about 40% of the degree requirement. It consists of 2 full courses and 12 half-term courses including Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Managerial Statistics, Managerial Economics, Leadership, Operations Management, and Marketing Strategy.
IESE Business School (Spain)
IESE’s global reach goes well beyond the school’s five campuses. IESE has helped establish 15 high-quality business schools, mainly in the developing world, beginning in 1967 with Mexico’s IPADE. These associated schools are fully autonomous, developed alongside strong and dedicated educators in each of the countries. In addition to IPADE, IESE has played a key role in creating: IAE in Argentina, 1978; PAD in Peru, 1979; AESE in Portugal, 1980; INALDE in Colombia, 1985; IEEM in Uruguay, 1986; LBS in Nigeria, 1991; IDE in Ecuador, 1992; CEIBS in China, 1994; UA&P School of Business Administration in the Philippines, 1995; ISE in Brazil, 1996; ESE in Chile, 1999; MDE Business School in the Ivory Coast, 2003; and SBS in Kenya, 2005.
