Eight of the top 10 in The Economist’s 2019 ranking are based in the U.S. Chicago’s Booth School of Business took out the winning spot followed by Harvard Business School. France’s HEC Paris Business School came in third and Spain’s IESE Business School at number 10. These were the only European schools in the top ten. Apart from Harvard, Kellogg and Wharton also made it into the top five. The top ten were rounded up by Anderson, Haas, Stanford and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

According to The Economist, more than 90 per cent of attendees on the top 20 courses had a job within three months. During its analysis the paper also found that employers are looking beyond simple management skills and want to see curricula that incorporate tech-savvy classes on coding, analytics and data.

The ranking acknowledged that it will be interesting how technology will reshape education and training. “With online education evolving at a rapid pace, it may no longer be necessary to take a 21-month residential course,” the paper stated, asking the valid question: “Which MBA institution is most prepared for the future?”

The Economist’s MBA Ranking 2019

1 University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, United States

2 Harvard Business School, United States

3 HEC Paris Business School, France

4 Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, United States

5 University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School, United States

6 UCLA – UCLA Anderson School of Management, United States

7 University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business, United States

8 Stanford University – Graduate School of Business, United States

9 University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business, United States

10 University of Navarra – IESE Business School, Spain

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