💥 HISTORY IN THE MAKING 💥
Check out Global Education Editor, Andrew Jack's, write up on the 2025 Financial Times Global MBA Rankings, where he gives a glimpse behind the scenes what factors may have influenced this year's list of the world's best full-time MBA programs. Every February, the #FT produces a list of, according to them, the best 100 MBA programs in the world. For the last 10 years or so, roughly 50 of these programs are based in North America, 30 are in Europe, and 20 are in Asia. The Financial Times also publishes rankings lists for the best MiM (Master's in Management), EMBA (Executive MBA), Master's in Finance, Best Online MBAs, Best European MBAs, and more.
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THE BIG NEWS:
#Europe has replaced the #US in dominating the #Top10 #MBA programs in the world. For the 1st time in history, there are 6 European MBA programs in the Top 10, and just 4 from the US. This jump up from 2024, which was also an historic record for a Europe with 4 of the Top 10 MBA programs based on the continent. This of course pushes out some MBA titans, like The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, which obviously remain amazing programs!!
Is it because of #Trumpism provoking massive regression with respect to #immigration, #DEI, and #sustainability? Increasing salary:cost of living ratios outside of the US? Overall quality of life?
As always, you NEED to read the #methology of the #FT #rankings to understand how they arrived to this conclusion. They do use quite a mathematical approach, and they consider a wide number of metrics, that often differs greatly from other rankings - all of which by the way, applicants need to take with a massive grain of salt. All rankings are, of course, just someone else's opinion. Finding your true best fit schools and programs trumps any of these annual lists!
Congratulations to our Top 10 recipients this year:
Honorable mention to China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics for their places at 12 and 15, respectively, for holding it up in #Asia, and IE Business School for taking 18th place, putting 3 of the #Top20 schools in 2025 in #Spain!
ESADE Business School, also in Barcelona may have been one of the biggest surprises this year, entering the #Top10 for the first time (at least for the full-time MBA program), tipping the balance in favor of Europe, bringing European programs over the line of majority representation in the top tier.
The 2025 GMBA rankings from the FT sent shockwaves throughout the MBA world, provoking a mix responses from admiration and pride to shock and disgust. Quite a few MBA pundits had some firey langauge denouncing the legitimacy of the FT rankings, calling them "a joke", "garbage", and slinging accusations of the FT bungling their own methodology and of businsess schools gaming the system or outright cheating. In my view, these folks who include admissions staff, alumni, and of course some opinionated admissions consultants are stuck in outdated views and a limited scope of what matters when you're doing an MBA. Not everyone shares the same priorities, and neither does every business school...and let's be thankful for that!
The worls is changing in many ways, and 2025 already has a lot going on and it's barely even March yet! The sands are shifting and according to the very mathematical methodology of the FT, quite a few European schools are doing fantastic things. This is not to say that Harvard and some of their #M7 and #S7 buddies are losing their touch. It simply means that many of their European counterparts are also doing fantastic things for their students, alumni, and the communities they touch.
CONGRATULATIONS to all our favorite MBA programs this year for all their hard work on creating fantastic programs that incredibly boost their careers of their MBA grads!
View the Financial Times' Global MBA Rankings here:
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