Rank in 2009 | Average rank (3 years)* | Business School name | Country* | Course design rank | Faculty rank | New skills & learning rank | Aims achieved rank |
1 | 1 | Harvard Business School | USA | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 2 | University of Virginia: Darden | USA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | 3 | IMD | Switzerland | 14 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
4 | 5 | IE Business School | Spain | 8 | 16 | 3 | 7 |
5 | 7 | Iese Business School | Spain | 17 | 23 | 8 | 12 |
6 | 13 | London Business School | UK | 10 | 8 | 21 | 4 |
7 | 6 | Center for Creative Leadership | USA / Belgium / Singapore | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 |
8 | 4 | Stanford University GSB | USA | 11 | 5 | 11 | 3 |
9 | 12 | University of Western Ontario: Ivey | Canada / China | 12 | 6 | 22 | 10 |
10 | 17 | MIT Sloan School of Management | USA | 5 | 3 | 9 | 14 |
11 | Thunderbird School of Global Management | USA | 3 | 10 | 31 | 15 | |
11 | 11 | Columbia Business School | USA | 7 | 13 | 17 | 13 |
13 | 14 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | USA | 21 | 11 | 18 | 8 |
13 | 15 | Fundação Dom Cabral | Brazil | 9 | 24 | 12 | 17 |
15 | 12 | Northwestern University: Kellogg | USA | 15 | 9 | 14 | 16 |
16 | 24 | Essec Business School | France / Singapore | 20 | 31 | 5 | 18 |
17 | 23 | HEC Paris | France | 24 | 12 | 4 | 9 |
18 | 12 | UCLA: Anderson | USA | 6 | 21 | 6 | 11 |
19 | Ceibs | China | 32 | 27 | 15 | 35 | |
19 | 16 | Insead | France / Singapore | 25 | 20 | 36 | 19 |
21 | 18 | Queen's School of Business | Canada | 29 | 22 | 37 | 22 |
22 | 12 | University of Chicago: Booth | USA / UK / Singapore | 31 | 25 | 27 | 30 |
23 | 19 | Duke University: Fuqua | U.S.A | 13 | 14 | 16 | 27 |
23 | 26 | University of Michigan: Ross | USA | 16 | 19 | 25 | 25 |
25 | 22 | SDA Bocconi | Italy | 22 | 26 | 24 | 32 |
26 | 19 | Babson Executive Education | USA | 27 | 15 | 30 | 40 |
26 | 30 | Esade Business School | Spain | 40 | 38 | 23 | 38 |
28 | University of Oxford: Saïd | UK | 36 | 28 | 33 | 31 | |
29 | 29 | Wisconsin School of Business | USA | 18 | 18 | 28 | 24 |
30 | FIA - Fundação Instituto de Administração | Brazil | 19 | 40 | 34 | 43 | |
31 | 28 | Cranfield School of Management | UK | 35 | 32 | 39 | 29 |
31 | 32 | IAE Business School | Argentina | 41 | 34 | 32 | 33 |
33 | 29 | Universität St.Gallen | Switzerland | 37 | 33 | 29 | 21 |
34 | 27 | University of Toronto: Rotman | Canada | 23 | 30 | 20 | 23 |
35 | 26 | Ipade | Mexico | 39 | 39 | 10 | 26 |
36 | 32 | ESCP Europe | France / UK / Germany / Spain / Italy | 30 | 37 | 19 | 20 |
37 | 34 | Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School | Belgium | 33 | 42 | 40 | 41 |
37 | 36 | Henley Business School | UK | 34 | 36 | 26 | 28 |
39 | 39 | Macquarie Graduate School of Management | Australia | 28 | 17 | 44 | 34 |
40 | 37 | EM Lyon Business School | France | 38 | 41 | 38 | 39 |
41 | 43 | Melbourne Business School: Mt. Eliza Executive Education | Australia | 42 | 29 | 45 | 36 |
42 | 40 | York University: Schulich | Canada | 43 | 35 | 47 | 50 |
42 | 42 | Ashridge | UK | 46 | 44 | 53 | 47 |
44 | NHH/AFF | Norway | 26 | 46 | 42 | 37 | |
45 | Kaist College of Business | S. Korea | 44 | 47 | 50 | 54 | |
46 | 42 | Helsinki School of Economics | Finland / S. Korea / Singapore | 45 | 49 | 35 | 44 |
47 | Incae Business School | Costa Rica / Nicaragua | 50 | 48 | 43 | 46 | |
48 | 45 | Stockholm School of Economics | Sweden / Russia / Latvia | 47 | 45 | 49 | 42 |
49 | 42 | University of Pretoria: Gibs | South Africa | 55 | 54 | 46 | 49 |
50 | 47 | Catholic University of Portugal | Portugal | 48 | 52 | 48 | 51 |
50 | 47 | Nyenrode Business Universiteit | Netherlands | 49 | 50 | 41 | 45 |
52 | Edhec Business School | France | 54 | 51 | 54 | 48 | |
53 | 50 | Lagos Business School | Nigeria | 51 | 53 | 52 | 52 |
54 | 45 | Australian School of Business | Australia | 52 | 43 | 55 | 55 |
55 | 50 | USB Executive Development Ltd | South Africa | 53 | 55 | 51 | 53 |
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