International Schools Rankings Class Profiles and Comparison : The B-School Applications

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This thread is retired. For latest international Bschool rankings and stats, please visit this topic.. https://gmatclub.com/forum/top-internat ... 45105.html Top 30 International MBA Programs Mean Rank School Name Business Week Economist FT Median GMAT Work Exp Mean Age Pre-MBA Salary Post-MBA Salary Tuition Class Size Selectivity Women Students Int'nl Students 1 Queen's 2 - - 667 5 29 $- $77944 $71000 117 -% 17% 54% 2 Insead 1 7 2 710 5 29 $81086 $111900 $68107 998 -% 33% 92% 3 London Business School 5 4 1 710 5 28 $63032 $105264 $78842 400 12.5% 28% 92% 4 IMD 7 1 8 660 8 30 $75000 $124700 $82488 90 22% 23% 100% 5 IE Business School 3 10 4 670 5.2 29 $62000 $101000 $68900 440 33% 29% 87% 6 IESE 12 3 5 672 4 27 $43550 $110400 $90715 280 21% 26% 80% 7 ESADE 4 6 11 670 5 28 $52500 $82000 $68000 180 46% 31% 84% 8 ISB - - 7 710 5 28 $54021 $132352 $- 573 12.5% 29% 29% 9 Bath - 8 - 640 8 31 $110207 $110207 $33582 70 11% 37% 88% 10 HEC Paris 14 5 10 682 6 30 $56700 $117857 $60925 451 14% 26% 83% 11 Cambridge (Judge) 10 12 13 684 6.5 29.6 $54630 $84677 $56338 149 27% 29% 88% 12 York (Schulich) 9 2 26 662 5 29 $43400 $81980 $58000 662 26% 38% 64% 13 University of Hong Kong - 13 - 662 5.4 28.3 $43975 $80476 $54568 52 9% 42% -% 14 Cranfield 13 9 19 680 6 31 $47200 $84998 $48765 149 50% 22% 90% 15 HKUST - 25 3 660 6 29 $55546 $84430 $53900 101 -% 33% 93% 16 City University (Cass) - 14 17 647 7 30 $57440 $90181 $46269 61 12.5% 38% 77% 17 Western Ontario (Ivey) 6 - 25 666 4.8 29 $58289 $84075 $79120 133 -% 32% 25% 18 Toronto (Rotman) 8 - 24 660 4 27 $56898 $106400 $99693 265 44% 29% 41% 19 Manchester Business School 17 - 16 640 5.5 29 $34579 $82144 $53756 271 43% 23% 93% 20 Mannheim - 17 - 675 5.5 28 $58784 $106400 $44000 58 9% 22% -% 21 Oxford (Said) 16 24 14 700 6 29 $61970 $90430 $63597 232 -% 24% 95% 22 Melbourne Business School - 11 27 654 7 31 $54285 $100428 $58716 51 25% 27% 90% 23 Queensland - 19 - 600 10 33 $97074 $149495 $51963 26 16% 40% -% 24 Australian School of Business (AGSM) - - 20 659 7 30 $83456 $123520 $54268 81 41% 20% 78% 25 EDHEC - 20 - 613 8 32 $46534 $88881 $43333 44 14% 45% -% 26 SDA Bocconi 18 28 15 650 5 29 $45696 $98316 $55065 101 38% 33% 67% 27 Henley - 22 - - 13 35 $95100 $107463 $49254 33 14% 27% -% 28 Imperial College - - 22 658 5.7 29 $60189 $115563 $57416 47 -% 35% 70% 29 IIM Ahmedabad PGPX - 39 6 713 10 34 $69222 $174440 $43407 101 11% 6% 8% 30 Vlerick Leuven Gent - 16 29 640 6 30 $37356 $86667 $38000 87 20% 37% 86% If you find any information inaccurate or think we left out some school, please, do let us know! We hope the info is helpful.

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Updated on: 17 Nov 2010, 09:30

Originally posted by target2010 on 11 Nov 2010, 08:42.
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Pretty good rankings. Here we go with a lovely document with the statistics for various international(non-US) schools .The best thing about the document is that the schools have been categorized across Asia, Europe and Canada and is quite comprehensive i.e. it lists around the top 25 programs in Europe, around 20 in Asia and the top 10 in Canada.

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weird... is the total salary coming out of b school or the student avg salary? the asian schools all very low...

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weird... is the total salary coming out of b school or the student avg salary? the asian schools all very low...

Obviously, the starting salaries would vary across continents due to Purchasing power parity, so asian schools would have low salaries in USD .For eg, people graduating from ISB,Hyderabad,the top Indian school start with something like around 20 lakhs($40k) in Indian currency.And this is a huge amount in India but may seem meagre according to the US PPP. Didn't you read the notes they have given on the first page clarifying this thing ?

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weird... is the total salary coming out of b school or the student avg salary? the asian schools all very low...

Obviously, the starting salaries would vary across continents due to Purchasing power parity, so asian schools would have low salaries in USD .For eg, people graduating from ISB,Hyderabad,the top Indian school start with something like around 20 lakhs($40k) in Indian currency.And this is a huge amount in India but may seem meagre according to the US PPP. Didn't you read the notes they have given on the first page clarifying this thing ?

i mustve missed it. Just weird like Melbourne is FT rank 27 yet salary 120k while hkust is 4th but 70k both in asia. living cost cant possibly have a 50k diff can it?

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i mustve missed it. Just weird like Melbourne is FT rank 27 yet salary 120k while hkust is 4th but 70k both in asia. living cost cant possibly have a 50k diff can it?

I think they can! I'd say living PPP wouldn't differ much in the countries of the Indian sub continent ,China and to an extent Hongkong,Singapore,Indonesia.
But Australia is an altogether different story! Did you know that even a plumber or an electrician makes something like $80k/year in Australia ? By the way, Australia ain't in Asia;it's a different continent

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i mustve missed it. Just weird like Melbourne is FT rank 27 yet salary 120k while hkust is 4th but 70k both in asia. living cost cant possibly have a 50k diff can it?

I think they can! I'd say living PPP wouldn't differ much in the countries of the Indian sub continent ,China and to an extent Hongkong,Singapore,Indonesia.
But Australia is an altogether different story! Did you know that even a plumber or an electrician makes something like $80k/year in Australia ? By the way, Australia ain't in Asia;it's a different continent

yeah but still 50k is a lot. like in US here you could live very comfortably 2k for rent (even in ny) which is 24k. i mean 50k diff would be like pres. suite or something.... o well

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Question:- The R1, R2 dates are wrt 2009, right? In case of 2012 applicants for IMD, the R1, R2 dates would be in the year 2012, right?

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These classifications always seem to be about general rep. If one is looking based on the benefit it has in preparing you for work in certain domains, what rating should he or shee consult.
Eg: I wanna be a tech company manger or consultant.. Which is the top school for me? Or financial something etc...?

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is there an updated version?

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I see IE is ranked in front of IESE, yet there is a bug salary discrepancy (mba promo videos like that word) between the two schools.

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Hi guyz,
thanks for the list.
But wanted your suggestion on -
1. Is it worth doing 1 yr MBA from Colleges from UK ?? say from Rank 5 - 20 in UK, not the LBS n Cambridges ( thinking practicle here)
Colleges like NBS, Glasgow etc
Specially now when they are talking about changing Work Permit Rules in UK, Hike Fees.

Is it worth spending so much on degrees from these colleges ? or is it better to work harder score better and get into a good college in India.

I am a NRI, 4+ yrs exp - Sales in Electrical Manufacturing sector, got 580 in GMAT, 5.5 in AWA.
I was expecting a 650+, but hell wht i scored is what I scored.

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Hi guyz,
thanks for the list.
But wanted your suggestion on -
1. Is it worth doing 1 yr MBA from Colleges from UK ?? say from Rank 5 - 20 in UK, not the LBS n Cambridges ( thinking practicle here)
Colleges like NBS, Glasgow etc
Specially now when they are talking about changing Work Permit Rules in UK, Hike Fees.

Is it worth spending so much on degrees from these colleges ? or is it better to work harder score better and get into a good college in India.

I am a NRI, 4+ yrs exp - Sales in Electrical Manufacturing sector, got 580 in GMAT, 5.5 in AWA.
I was expecting a 650+, but hell wht i scored is what I scored.

Cheers,
Ash

Good point there.. i'm a 660/3yr and wondering the same.. Applying to glasgow, leicester etc..
Could anyone plzzz answer......?!?!?!?!

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Does anyone find the Economist ranking really unexpected? For both US and European schools....

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Does anyone find the Economist ranking really unexpected? For both US and European schools....

Wel there sure is a disparity.. For starters.. Smurfit's at 31 acc2 economist whereas it's arnd 70 in ft.
Different criteria.. different ranks... guess it's all about personal priorities after all

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Does anyone find the Economist ranking really unexpected? For both US and European schools....

Wel there sure is a disparity.. For starters.. Smurfit's at 31 acc2 economist whereas it's arnd 70 in ft.
Different criteria.. different ranks... guess it's all about personal priorities after all

Yeah I guess you are right. I just find it questionable that Tuck and Haas are ranked 2 and 3, above some of the other schools. Don't get me wrong, I think Tuck and Haas are great schools -- I just don't know if they are really #2 and #3...

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Wow! That is a seriously impressive table!

Global MBA Report calls it as follows:

1. The London Business School, U.K.

2. Wharton University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

3. Harvard Business School, U.S.A.

4. Stanford University GSB, U.S.A.

5. Insead France / Singapore

6. Columbia Business School, U.S.A.

7. IE Business School, Spain

8. MIT Sloan School of Management, U.S.A.

9. University of Chicago: Booth, U.S.A.

10. Hong Kong UST Business School, China

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I really like Cranfield as a UK Business School. Didn't do my MBA there but have been on some management courses that were quite impressive:

Cranfield Full-time MBA program

26th in the world
13th in Europe
34th in the world
3rd in the world for teaching Economics
5th in the world for value for money
7th in the world for aims achieved
8th in the world for career progress
8th for top salaries today in Europe

Executive MBA

33rd in the World
4th in the UK
3rd for top salaries today in the UK
9th for top salaries today in Europe

The Cranfield MBA is offered as a one-year full-time program or a two-year executive program. The executive program has the option of being part-time or modular.

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