American colleges dominate The Economist top MBA rankings

30 Oct 2017

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management has the best MBA in the world according to The Economist. Source: Vimeo

The Land of the Free still appears to be the best place to learn how to rule the business world.

The Economist magazine has just released its Which MBA?, a ranking of full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes for 2017, with US-based institutions representing all of the top 10 and dominating the top 20 schools for a postgraduate business education in the world.

The MBA offered at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management was crowned the best in 2017, topping the list for the first time since 2004.

Rank	Business School	Country
1	Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management	United States
2	University of Chicago – Booth School of Business	United States
3	Harvard Business School	United States
4	University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School	United States
5	Stanford University – Graduate School of Business	United States
6	UCLA – UCLA Anderson School of Management	United States
7	University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business	United States
8	Dartmouth College – Tuck School of Business	United States
9	Columbia Business School	United States
10	University of Virginia – Darden School of Business	United States

Some non-US universities made it into the top 20, with France’s HEC School of Management, Paris being the highest-ranked.

Next came the University of Queensland Business School’s programme in Australia, followed by IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Spain and the UK-based Warwick Business School’s degrees.

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— UQ Business School (@UQ_Business) October 27, 2017

Rank	Business School	Country
11	Yale School of Management	United States
12	University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business	United States
13	Duke University – Fuqua School of Business	United States
14	New York University – Leonard N Stern School of Business	United States
15	HEC School of Management, Paris	France
16	The University of Queensland Business School	Australia
17	University of Navarra – IESE Business School	Spain
18	University of Warwick – Warwick Business School	United Kingdom
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan School of Management	United States
20	University of Florida – Hough Graduate School of Business	United States