Forbes names world’s best global one-year MBAs

Study International Staff

29 Sep 2017

Forbes has released its Best International MBAs: One-Year Programs for 2017, with institutions in Germany, Spain, Australia and Hong Kong among the world’s best.

IMD on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland was ranked first by Forbes in 2017. Its class of 90 members represents 44 different nationalities, with a requirement of the programme that applicants speak at least one language besides English.

Source: IMD

Second is Insead – which has campuses in France, Abu Dhabi and Singapore – and prides itself on being “the business school for the world”; followed by Spain’s IE Business School which boasts a graduate employment rate of 89 percent within three months of finishing the course.

The Forbes MBA rankings along with Financial Times and The Economist are amongst the most prestigious in the world.

Ranking	Name	Location
1	IMD	Lausanne, Switzerland
2	Insead	Fontainebleau, France
3	IE Business School	Madrid, Spain
4	Cambridge (Judge)	Cambridge, United Kingdom
5	SDA Bocconi	Milan, Italy
6	Oxford (Said)	Oxford, United Kingdom
7	Hong Kong	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
8	Mannheim	Mannheim, Germany
9	Erasmus (Rotterdam)	Rotterdam, Netherlands
10	Cranfield	Cranfield, United Kingdom
11	Lancaster	Lancaster, United Kingdom
12	City U (Cass)	London, United Kingdom
13	Imperial	London, United Kingdom
14	Warwick	Coventry, United Kingdom
15	Hult	London, United Kingdom
16	S P Jain	Sydney, Australia
17	HEC Montreal	Montreal, QC, Canada

Dr. Indu Niranjan, dean of the Global MBA program at SP Jain School of Global Management said: Our goal is to train our graduates for top companies around the world.

“Our students have the unique benefit of studying in three cities – Singapore, Sydney and Dubai. They get to understand how to navigate and adapt in a global business environment – a skill much valued by recruiters.”

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— SP Jain Global (@SPJainGlobal) September 26, 2017

“They undertake projects assigned by both local or global companies, interact with business leaders and thinkers, immersing themselves in different local cultures and developing important global skills.”