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2026 Best Business Schools In the World

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CEOWORLD magazine has named London Business School the world’s top business school for 2026. In the 2026 global rankings, London Business School took the No. 1 spot, followed by the Wharton School in second place and Stanford Graduate School of Business in third.

MIT Sloan School of Management was ranked fourth, with Harvard Business School in fifth place. Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford (Oxford Saïd) secured the sixth position, while Columbia Business School was ranked seventh.

According to the latest rankings, the Haas School of Business placed eighth among the world’s top 10 business schools, followed closely by Yale School of Management in ninth. Alliance Manchester Business School, recognized for developing leaders who create positive societal impact, rounded out the top 10 in tenth place.

Best Business Schools In The World For 2026

Rank
Business School
Country
Score
1 London Business School United Kingdom 96.57
2 The Wharton School United States 96.05
3 Stanford Graduate School of Business United States 95.63
4 MIT Sloan School of Management United States 95.18
5 Harvard Business School United States 94.85
6 Said Business School United Kingdom 94.76
7 Columbia Business School United States 93.89
8 Haas School of Business United States 93.72
9 Yale School of Management United States 93.63
10 Alliance Manchester Business School United Kingdom 93.5
11 The University of Chicago Booth School of Business United States 93.46
12 Kellogg School of Management United States 93.24
13 HEC Paris France 92.81
14 Leonard N. Stern School of Business United States 92.37
15 Cambridge Judge Business School United Kingdom 92.03
16 INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) France 91.48
17 Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management United States 91.14
18 Olin Business School United States 89.69
19 Darden School of Business – University of Virginia United States 88.61
20 Fuqua School of Business – Duke University United States 88.52
21 IMD – International Institute for Management Development Switzerland 88.34
22 NUS Business School Singapore 88.22
23 Eli Broad College of Business – Michigan State University United States 88.18
24 Tuck School of Business United States 88.09
25 UCLA Anderson School of Management United States 87.87
26 McDonough School of Business United States 87.2
27 Purdue Krannert School of Management United States 87.11
28 Smeal College of Business – Pennsylvania State University United States 86.92
29 UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School United States 86.8
30 Warwick Business School United Kingdom 86.76
31 Tepper School of Business United States 86.47
32 Rotterdam School of Management – Erasmus University Netherlands 86.11
33 Melbourne Business School – University of Melbourne Australia 86.05
34 Foster School of Business United States 85.76
35 GW SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – George Washington University United States 85.22
36 ESMT Berlin (European School of Management and Technology Germany 85.05
37 Otto Beisheim School of Management Germany 84.93
38 Mannheim Business School Germany 84.69
39 Gies College of Business – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States 84.4
40 IESE Business School Spain 84.16
41 HKUST Business School Hong Kong 84.04
42 Robert H. Smith School of Business United States 84
43 ESADE Business School Spain 83.93
44 Mendoza College of Business – University of Notre Dame United States 83.81
45 Geneva Business School Switzerland 83.69
46 Indian Institute of Management Calcutta India 83.51
47 USC Marshall School of Business United States 83.45
48 Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad India 83.38
49 Goizueta Business School – Emory University United States 82.4
50 Rotman School of Management Canada 82.03
51 School of Business – Southern Alberta Institute of Technology SAIT Canada 81.87
52 Indian Institute of Management Indore India 81.41
53 Cranfield School of Management United Kingdom 81.16
54 Fisher College of Business United States 80.78
55 Faculty of Management Studies – Delhi India 80.23
56 W. P. Carey School of Business United States 79.84
57 Questrom School of Business – Boston University United States 79.62
58 Owen Graduate School of Management – Vanderbilt University United States 79.5
59 IFM Business School Switzerland 79.17
60 UCI Paul Merage School of Business, University of California – Irvine United States 78.82
61 XLRI – Xavier School of Management India 78.59
62 Scheller College of Business United States 78.12
63 China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) China 78.11
64 Knauss School of Business United States 77.91
65 Vlerick Business School Belgium 77.85
66 Kelley School of Business – Indiana University United States 77.8
67 Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University Singapore 77.66
68 Nova School of Business & Economics Portugal 76.96
69 TIAS School for Business and Society Netherlands 76.8
70 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode India 76.29
71 Durham University Business School United Kingdom 76.12
72 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School Hong Kong 76.1
73 Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Greece 74.44
74 UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business Ireland 74.4
75 Indian Institute of Management Rohtak India 73.69
76 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore India 73.45
77 Cox School of Business United States 73.43
78 Macquarie Business School Australia 73.42
79 Desautels Faculty of Management – McGill University Canada 73
80 Strathclyde Business School United Kingdom 72.84
81 SDA Bocconi School of Management Italy 72.67
82 Rady School of Management United States 72.59
83 University of Edinburgh Business School United Kingdom 72.45
84 Carroll School of Management at Boston College United States 72.25
85 Tippie College of Business United States 72.13
86 Indian Institute of Management Lucknow India 71.9
87 University of Bath School of Management United Kingdom 70.84
88 University of St.Gallen Switzerland 70.52
89 Smith School of Business Canada 70.14
90 UBC Sauder School of Business Canada 70.02
91 Southampton Business School United Kingdom 69.81
92 Alberta School of Business Canada 69.65
93 EMLYON business school France 69.16
94 Coller School of Management – Tel Aviv University Israel 69.08
95 Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong Australia 68.97
96 Ivey Business School Canada 68.4
97 Indian Institute of Management Shillong India 67.25
98 Business School – University of Queensland Australia 66.96
99 Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) Australia 66.74
100 Darla Moore School of Business – University of South Carolina United States 66.61
101 Imperial College Business School United Kingdom 66.42
102 Schulich School of Business Canada 66.2
103 Indian Institute of Management Ranchi India 66.16
104 Monash Business School Australia 65.87
105 Indian Institute of Management Nagpur India 65.64
106 Sprott School of Business at Carleton University Canada 65.53
107 Indian Institute of Management Kashipur India 65.11
108 AUC School of Business – American University in Cairo Egypt 65.06
109 Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics Canada 64.62
110 Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli India 64.06
111 Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics Portugal 63.72
112 Adelaide Business School Australia 63.33
113 EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Switzerland 62.67
114 Miami Herbert Business School – University of Miami United States 62.3
115 Stockholm Business School (SBS) Sweden 62.28
116 UPF Barcelona School of Managemet Spain 62.27
117 Geneva School of Economics and Management – UNIGE Switzerland 62.24
118 Hult International Business School United States 61.83
119 School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg Sweden 60.4
120 Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University Singapore 60.33
121 Poznan University of Economics and Business Poland 59.94
122 Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) – UNIL Switzerland 59.92
123 Lund University School of Economics and Management Sweden 59.61
124 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain 59.11
125 Wroclaw University of Economics and Business Poland 58.92
126 Porto Business School Portugal 58.84
127 NHH Norwegian School of Economics Norway 58.77
128 Waikato Management School, University of Waikato New Zealand 58.73
129 Warsaw School of Economics Poland 58.4
130 ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics & Management Portugal 57.92
131 Kozminski University Poland 57.71
132 ISCTE Executive Education Portugal 57.54
133 Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington School of Business and Government New Zealand 57.48
134 BI Norwegian Business School Norway 56.94
135 Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw Poland 56.26
136 Catolica Porto Business School Portugal 56.24
137 University of Canterbury Business School, University of Canterbury New Zealand 56.19
138 Deusto Business School Spain 55.97
139 Gdańsk University of Technology Poland 55.76
140 AESE Business School Portugal 55.18
141 Massey Business School, Massey University New Zealand 54.91
142 Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management – Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland 54.89
143 Graduate School of Management, University of Auckland Business School New Zealand 54.56
144 PAD-School of Management University of Piura Peru 53.73
145 EADA Business School Spain 53.68
146 Facultad de Administracion y Ciencias Sociales (Universidad ORT Uruguay) Uruguay 53.52
147 Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) Venezuela 53.4
148 University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business Slovenia 53.27
149 Thammasat Business School Thailand 53.03
150 Mediterranean School of Business (MSB) Tunisia 52.43
151 Koc University Graduate School of Business (GSB) Turkey 52.33
152 IEEM – Escuela de negocios Uruguay 52.11
153 University of Macedonia—School of Business Administration/a> Greece 52.08
154 Carlson School of Management United States 51.83
155 Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business Trinidad and Tobago 51.39
156 IEDC – Bled School of Management Slovenia 50.99
157 Pacífico ​Business School Peru 50.91
158 Department of Business Administration of the University of Patras Greece 50.55
159 International Institute of Business, IIB-Ukraine Ukraine 50.42
160 International Management Institute (MIM-Kyiv) Ukraine 50.28
161 Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece Greece 49.27
162 Gordon Institute of Business Science – GIBS South Africa 49.18
163 ESAN Graduate School of Business – ESAN University Peru 48.21
164 IAE Business School Argentina 47.46
165 American University of Beirut Lebanon 47.13
166 College of Business and Economics – Qatar University Qatar 46.87
167 EGADE Business School Mexico 46.83
168 Dubai Business School – University of Dubai United Arab Emirates 46.45

Methodology: CEOWORLD magazine surveyed 250,000 business executives, graduates, global business influencers, industry professionals, business school academics, employers, and recruiters across 176 countries and territories between September 15, 2025, and March 22, 2026. Ten percent of interviews were conducted by telephone, 82% online, and 8% via post or face-to-face, with all quantitative responses collected on a confidential basis and without reliance on institutional data submissions.

To construct the ranking, CEOWORLD magazine combined survey data with information and statistics drawn from publicly available sources, independent research, and proprietary questionnaires. Participants rated business schools on a scale from 1 (“marginal”) to 100 (“outstanding”), with an additional “don’t know” option. The 2026 Global Business Schools survey was conducted by CEOWORLD magazine, a leading platform for CEOs, COOs, CFOs, senior corporate executives, business leaders, private equity investors, investment bankers, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.

The rankings are based on seven primary metrics of quality and reputation, with the overall score (100%) reflecting the weighted sum of the following dimensions:

  • Academic reputation
  • Admission eligibility
  • Job placement rate
  • Recruiter feedback
  • Specialization
  • Global reputation and influence
  • Annual tuition and fees

The list is not intended to be exhaustive. While it highlights CEOWORLD magazine’s “best business schools in the world for 2026,” many other institutions also offer excellent programs. The ranking should be viewed as one decision input among many, not the single determining factor when choosing a business school.

For the total sample of 250,000 respondents, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.2 percentage points. As with all large-scale surveys, results may also be affected by other sources of error, including coverage, nonresponse, and measurement effects. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding and the exclusion of ‘neither/nor’ and ‘don’t know’ responses. Unless otherwise indicated, the base for global figures is 250,000 respondents. All responses are kept confidential to encourage participants to share their views in a respectful, truthful, unbiased, and collegial environment.

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