Harvard Tops Financial Times 2015 Global MBA Ranking

Earlier this week, Financial Times released its 2015 global MBA ranking of the best business schools, and the results showed no surprises—only a shuffling—at the very top. This is the third time in a row Harvard Business School has taken the crown, and the sixth time since the ranking began in 1999.

Its alumni have the highest average salary three years after graduation, at $179,910 (weighted), nearly doubling their pre-MBA pay. Harvard is among the top schools for career progression and its MBA was the most highly recommended by graduates of other schools.

The ranking is based on surveys of business schools and their 2011 graduates, and the Financial Times methodology involves assessing MBA programs according to the career progression of alumni, the school’s idea generation, and the diversity of students and faculty.

Top Ten Business Schools in FT’s 2015 Global MBA Rankings

  1. Harvard Business School
  2. London Business School
  3. University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
  4. Stanford Graduate School of Business
  5. INSEAD
  6. Columbia Business School
  7. IESE Business School
  8. MIT Sloan School of Management
  9. Chicago Booth School of Business
  10. UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

HBS alumni may top the ranking for salaries, but Wharton’s doctoral program in business has made it the world’s leading research-based business school with the most articles published in the FT45 list of peer-reviewed and practitioner journals, the FT reports.

You can learn more about this year’s results and methodology by checking out the complete Financial Times ranking coverage.

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