Rankings methodology

To qualify for inclusion in the Economist Intelligence Unit rankings, the schools with full–time MBA programmes that responded to our survey had to meet various thresholds of data provision, as well as attaining a minimum number of responses to a survey gauging the opinion of current students and alumni who graduated within the last three years.

School Rank Full time MBA 2005(out of 100)

1. IESE Business School – University of Navarra
2. Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management
3. Dartmouth College – Tuck School of Business
4. Stanford Graduate School of Business
5. IMD – International Institute for Management Development
6. Chicago University of – Graduate School of Business
7. New York University – Leonard N Stern School of Business
8. University of Michigan– Stephen M. Ross School of Business
9. Columbia Business School
10. University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business
11. INSEAD
12. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
13. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan School of Management
14. University of Virginia, – Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
15. UCLA Anderson School of Management
16. IE – Instituto de Empresa
17. Cornell University – Johnson Graduate School of Management
18. Yale School of Management
19. HEC School of Management, Paris
20. University of Cambridge – Judge Business School
21. Henley Management College
22. Hult International Business School
23. London Business School
24. Emory University – Goizueta Business School
25. Duke University – Fuqua School of Business
26. Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business
27. York University – Schulich School of Business
28. Warwick Business School
29. Ohio State University – Fisher College of Business
30. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Kenan-Flagler Business School
31. University of Oxford – Said Business School
32. Cranfield School of Management
33. Washington University in St Louis – Olin School of Business
34. ESADE Business School
35. University of Edinburgh – Management School
36. Aston Business School
37. University of Iowa – Henry B Trippie School of Management
38. University of Bath – Mendoza College of Business
39. Ashridge
40. University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business
41. City University – Cass Business School
42. E.M. Lyon
43. Birmingham University of – Birmingham Business School
44. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – College of Business
45. University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Business and Economics
46. University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business
47. University of Strathclyde – Graduate School of Business
48. Pennsylvania State University – Smeal College of Business
49. Georgetown University – Robert Emmet McDonough School of Business
50. University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business

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