The Wharton School takes the prestigious title of the world’s business school for 2023, according to the CEOWORLD magazine. London Business School earned itself a respectable second place, with MIT Sloan School of Management ranked third. The 2023 rankings placed Harvard Business School in fourth ahead of Saïd Business School (Oxford Saïd or SBS) in fifth, while Columbia Business School (CBS) ranked sixth and the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) School seventh.
Overall, among the top 10 business schools, the eighth, ninth, and tenth positions are held by INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration), Haas School of Business (Berkeley Haas), and the Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM).
Cambridge Judge Business School took the No. 11 spot, followed by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (No. 12) and Leonard N. Stern School of Business (No.13). Meanwhile, Alliance Manchester Business School ranked No. 14 in the CEOWORLD magazine’s ranking of the best business schools in the world for 2023. Kellogg School of Management came in fifteenth place, followed by IMD – International Institute for Management Development (sixteenth), UCLA Anderson School of Management (No. 17), Tuck School of Business (eighteenth), and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School ranked nineteenth.
Out of the 100 best business schools in the world for 2023, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ranked No. 20th. A number of parameters are used to compile the ranking, which is based on the satisfaction levels of individual students, industry professionals, and corporate recruiters. So, if you are thinking about boosting your prospects with a postgraduate-level degree in business, we have got just the thing for you; here are the best international business schools that can help advance your career:
Rank |
Business School |
Country |
1 |
The Wharton School |
US |
2 |
London Business School |
UK |
3 |
MIT Sloan School of Management |
US |
4 |
Harvard Business School |
US |
5 |
Said Business School |
UK |
6 |
Columbia Business School |
US |
7 |
Stanford Graduate School of Business |
US |
8 |
INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) |
France |
9 |
Haas School of Business |
US |
10 |
Yale School of Management |
US |
11 |
Cambridge Judge Business School |
UK |
12 |
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
US |
13 |
Leonard N. Stern School of Business |
US |
14 |
Alliance Manchester Business School |
UK |
15 |
Kellogg School of Management |
US |
16 |
IMD – International Institute for Management Development |
Switzerland |
17 |
UCLA Anderson School of Management |
US |
18 |
Tuck School of Business |
US |
19 |
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |
US |
20 |
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management |
US |
21 |
HEC Paris |
France |
22 |
Fuqua School of Business – Duke University |
US |
23 |
Darden School of Business – University of Virginia |
US |
24 |
McDonough School of Business |
US |
25 |
NUS Business School |
Singapore |
26 |
Olin Business School |
US |
27 |
Eli Broad College of Business – Michigan State University |
US |
28 |
Mannheim Business School |
Germany |
29 |
IESE Business School |
Spain |
30 |
USC Marshall School of Business |
US |
31 |
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
India |
32 |
Tepper School of Business |
US |
33 |
Purdue Krannert School of Management |
US |
34 |
Smeal College of Business – Pennsylvania State University |
US |
35 |
Warwick Business School |
UK |
36 |
ESMT Berlin (European School of Management and Technology |
Germany |
37 |
Rotterdam School of Management – Erasmus University |
Netherlands |
38 |
ESADE Business School |
Spain |
39 |
Melbourne Business School – University of Melbourne |
Australia |
40 |
GW SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – George Washington University |
US |
41 |
Gies College of Business – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
US |
42 |
Otto Beisheim School of Management |
Germany |
43 |
Rotman School of Management |
Canada |
44 |
Foster School of Business |
US |
45 |
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta |
India |
46 |
HKUST Business School |
Hong Kong |
47 |
Robert H. Smith School of Business |
US |
48 |
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) |
China |
49 |
Mendoza College of Business – University of Notre Dame |
US |
50 |
Cranfield School of Management |
UK |
51 |
School of Business – Southern Alberta Institute of Technology SAIT |
Canada |
52 |
Geneva Business School |
Switzerland |
53 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School |
Hong Kong |
54 |
Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
55 |
EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (EIU – PARIS) |
France |
56 |
Goizueta Business School – Emory University |
US |
57 |
Faculty of Management Studies – Delhi |
India |
58 |
Vlerick Business School |
Belgium |
59 |
Kelley School of Business – Indiana University |
US |
60 |
W. P. Carey School of Business |
US |
61 |
Questrom School of Business – Boston University |
US |
62 |
Owen Graduate School of Management – Vanderbilt University |
US |
63 |
UCI Paul Merage School of Business, University of California – Irvine |
US |
64 |
XLRI – Xavier School of Management |
India |
65 |
Scheller College of Business |
US |
66 |
Indian Institute of Management Indore |
India |
67 |
Nova School of Business & Economics |
Portugal |
68 |
Fisher College of Business |
US |
69 |
Carlson School of Management |
US |
70 |
Knauss School of Business |
US |
71 |
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode |
India |
72 |
Durham University Business School |
UK |
73 |
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management |
Germany |
74 |
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business |
Ireland |
75 |
IFM Business school – IFM University |
Switzerland |
76 |
TIAS School for Business and Society |
Netherlands |
77 |
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
India |
78 |
Cox School of Business |
US |
79 |
Desautels Faculty of Management – McGill University |
Canada |
80 |
Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) |
Greece |
81 |
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow |
India |
82 |
University of Bath School of Management |
UK |
83 |
University of St.Gallen |
Switzerland |
84 |
Strathclyde Business School |
UK |
85 |
SDA Bocconi School of Management |
Italy |
86 |
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak |
India |
87 |
Tippie College of Business |
US |
88 |
Macquarie Business School |
Australia |
89 |
Rady School of Management |
US |
90 |
Smith School of Business |
Canada |
91 |
Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece |
Greece |
92 |
Southampton Business School |
UK |
93 |
Alberta School of Business |
Canada |
94 |
University of Edinburgh Business School |
Uk |
95 |
Carroll School of Management at Boston College |
US |
96 |
UBC Sauder School of Business |
Canada |
97 |
Department of Business Administration of the University of Patras |
Greece |
98 |
EMLYON business school |
France |
99 |
Coller School of Management – Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
100 |
ESSEC Business School |
France |
101 |
Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong |
Australia |
102 |
Ivey Business School |
Canada |
103 |
Indian Institute of Management Shillong |
India |
104 |
University of Macedonia—School of Business Administration/a> |
Greece |
105 |
Business School – University of Queensland |
Australia |
106 |
Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) |
Australia |
107 |
Darla Moore School of Business – University of South Carolina |
US |
108 |
Imperial College Business School |
UK |
109 |
Schulich School of Business |
Canada |
110 |
Indian Institute of Management Ranchi |
India |
111 |
Sprott School of Business at Carleton University |
Canada |
112 |
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur |
India |
113 |
AUC School of Business – American University in Cairo |
Egypt |
114 |
Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics |
Canada |
115 |
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli |
India |
116 |
Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics |
Portugal |
117 |
Adelaide Business School |
Australia |
118 |
EGADE Business School |
Mexico |
119 |
Monash Business School |
Australia |
120 |
Dubai Business School – University of Dubai |
United Arab Emirates |
121 |
Indian Institute of Management Nagpur |
India |
122 |
College of Business and Economics – Qatar University |
Qatar |
123 |
EAE Business School |
Spain |
124 |
IAE Business School |
Argentina |
125 |
American University of Beirut |
Lebanon |
126 |
ESAN Graduate School of Business – ESAN University |
Peru |
127 |
Gordon Institute of Business Science – GIBS |
South Africa |
128 |
EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
Switzerland |
129 |
Miami Herbert Business School – University of Miami |
US |
130 |
Stockholm Business School (SBS) |
Sweden |
131 |
UPF Barcelona School of Managemet |
Spain |
132 |
Geneva School of Economics and Management – UNIGE |
Switzerland |
133 |
Hult International Business School |
US |
134 |
School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg |
Sweden |
135 |
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University |
Singapore |
136 |
Poznan University of Economics and Business |
Poland |
137 |
Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) – UNIL |
Switzerland |
138 |
Lund University School of Economics and Management |
Sweden |
139 |
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
Spain |
140 |
Wroclaw University of Economics and Business |
Poland |
141 |
Porto Business School |
Portugal |
142 |
NHH Norwegian School of Economics |
Norway |
143 |
Waikato Management School, University of Waikato |
New Zealand |
144 |
Warsaw School of Economics |
Poland |
145 |
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics & Management |
Portugal |
146 |
Kozminski University |
Poland |
147 |
ISCTE Executive Education |
Portugal |
148 |
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington School of Business and Government |
New Zealand |
149 |
BI Norwegian Business School |
Norway |
150 |
Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw |
Poland |
151 |
Catolica Porto Business School |
Portugal |
152 |
University of Canterbury Business School, University of Canterbury |
New Zealand |
153 |
Deusto Business School |
Spain |
154 |
Gdańsk University of Technology |
Poland |
155 |
AESE Business School |
Portugal |
156 |
Massey Business School, Massey University |
New Zealand |
157 |
Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management – Nicolaus Copernicus University |
Poland |
158 |
Graduate School of Management, University of Auckland Business School |
New Zealand |
159 |
PAD-School of Management University of Piura |
Peru |
160 |
EADA Business School |
Spain |
161 |
Facultad de Administracion y Ciencias Sociales (Universidad ORT Uruguay) |
Uruguay |
162 |
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) |
Venezuela |
163 |
University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business |
Slovenia |
164 |
Thammasat Business School |
Thailand |
165 |
International Management Institute (MIM-Kyiv) |
Ukraine |
166 |
Mediterranean School of Business (MSB) |
Tunisia |
167 |
Koc University Graduate School of Business (GSB) |
Turkey |
168 |
IEEM – Escuela de negocios |
Uruguay |
169 |
International Institute of Business, IIB-Ukraine |
Ukraine |
170 |
Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business |
Trinidad and Tobago |
171 |
IEDC – Bled School of Management |
Slovenia |
172 |
Pacífico Business School |
Peru |
173 |
Centrum PUCP Business School |
Peru |
Detailed findings & methodology: CEOWORLD magazine surveyed 350,00 business executives, graduates, global business influencers, industry professionals, business school academics, employers, and recruiters in 156 countries and territories between September 15, 2022, and December 22, 2022. Ten percent of the interviews were conducted by telephone, 82{d0229a57248bc83f80dcf53d285ae037b39e8d57980e4e23347103bb2289e3f9} online, and 8{d0229a57248bc83f80dcf53d285ae037b39e8d57980e4e23347103bb2289e3f9} by post or face-to-face. All quantitative interviews were conducted on a confidential basis, without relying on institutions’ data submissions.
To establish our list, we collected information and statistics from publicly available sources, research, and survey. Participants were asked to rate institutions on a scale of 1 “marginal” to 100 “outstanding” or “don’t know.” The 2023 Global Business Schools survey was carried out by the CEOWORLD magazine – the website for CEOs, COOs, CFOs, senior corporate executives, business leaders, private equity investors, investment bankers, and high net worth individuals worldwide. CEOWORLD magazine ranked 500 MBA programs around the world.
The rankings are based on seven major metrics of quality and reputation. The overall Score (100{d0229a57248bc83f80dcf53d285ae037b39e8d57980e4e23347103bb2289e3f9}) is the sum of the following:
1) Academic reputation
2) Admission Eligibility
3) Job placement rate
4) Recruiter feedback
5) Specialization
6) Global reputation and influence
7) Annual tuition and fees
However, this is by no means a comprehensive list; At the same time, the institutions above are the CEOWORLD magazine’s “best business schools in the world for 2023,” and there may be many other business schools that offer excellent programs. This ranking should not be viewed as the most essential aspect when choosing a business school and are merely one element to consider.
The margin of sampling error for the total sample of 350,00 respondents is plus or minus 1.2 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that, as in all survey research, there are possible sources of error—such as coverage, nonresponse, and measurement error——that could affect the results.
Not all figures add up to 100{d0229a57248bc83f80dcf53d285ae037b39e8d57980e4e23347103bb2289e3f9} as a result of rounding percentages and excluding ‘neither/nor’ and ‘don’t know’ responses from the exhibit. Unless otherwise stated, the base for global figures is 350,00 (global respondents). All answers are confidential to allow survey participants to share their perspectives in a respectful, truthful, unbiased, and collegial setting. For more information, please contact [email protected].
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