- QS has released its 2020 Global MBA Ranking, evaluating more than 240 of the best business schools in the world.
- QS based its ranking on surveys of employers, academics, and business school programs, and evaluated MBA programs on employability, alumni outcomes, students' return on investment, thought leadership, and diversity.
- This year, Wharton and Stanford tied for first place. Here are the top 50 global MBA programs, according to the QS rankings.
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The 50 best MBA programs in the world, and how much they cost
The best business schools in the world are ranked each year by education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
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Higher- and business-education specialists QSQuacquarelli Symonds has released its 2020 Global MBA Ranking, evaluating more than 240 of the best business schools in the world.
QS ranked programs on employability for graduates, entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, students' return on investment as measured by post-graduation increases in salary, academic thought leadership, and class and faculty diversity.
QS based its rankings on three surveys : One survey of global employers to ascertain the reputation of MBA programs among top firms, one survey of academics to get a sense of schools' academic and thought leadership reputations, and a survey completed by business schools themselves to gather basic information on programs and student outcomes.
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Between 2015 and 2019, QS collected hundreds of thousands of university and business school nominations from nearly 45,000 unique global employers to the QS Global Employer Survey Over 95,000 academics from around the world responded to the QS Global Academic Survey.
See the full list of business schools on TopMBA.com . Here are the top 50 global MBA programs and how much they cost, according to QS rankings :
T-50. Cranfield grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $50K to $80K.
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Location: Cranfield, UK
Tuition: $40K to $50K
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T-50: Michigan State (Eli Broad) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $100K to $110K.
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Location: East Lansing, MI
Tuition and fees: $100K to $110K
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T-50. Emory (Goizueta) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Atlanta, GA
Tuition: Over $120K
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T-49. Georgetown (McDonough) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $110K to $120K.
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Location: Washington DC
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T-49. HKUST grads earn an average post-graduate salary of $50K to $80K.
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Location: Hong Kong SAR
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Tuition and fees: N/A
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48. Manchester (Alliance) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $50K to $80K.
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Location: Manchester, UK
Tuition and fees: $50K to $60K
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47. St. Gallen grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $110K to $120K.
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Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
Tuition and fees: $40K to $50K
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46. EDHEC grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $100K to $110K.
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Location: Nice, France
Tuition: $50K to $60K
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45. Dartmouth (Tuck) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Hanover, NH
Tuition: $70K to $80K
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44. IIM Bangalore grads earn an average post-graduate salary of under $50K.
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Location: Bangalore
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43. Nanyang NTU Singapore grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $50K to $80K.
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Location: Singapore
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42. UNSW (Australian Graduate School of Management) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $80K to $90K.
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Location: Sydney, Australia
Tuition: $60K to $70K
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41. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $50K to $80K.
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Location: Brussels, Belgium
Tuition and fees: N/A
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40. IIM Ahmedabad grads earn an average post-graduation salary of under $50K.
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Location: Ahmedabad, India
Tuition: $20K to $30K
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39. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Tuition: Over $120K
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38. Mannheim grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $100K to $110K.
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Location: Mannheim, Germany
Tuition: $40K to $50K
37. Texas (McCombs) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $110K to $120K.
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Location: Austin, TX
Tuition and fees: $100K to $110K
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36. University of Hong Kong grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $80K to $90K.
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Location: Hong Kong
Tuition and fees: $70K to $80K
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35. Cornell (Johnson) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Ithaca, NY
Tuition: Over $120K
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34. Warwick grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Coventry, UK
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Tuition and fees: $50K to $60K
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33. Indiana (Kelley) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $100K to $110K.
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Location: Bloomington, IN
Tuition: $50K to $60K
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32. NUS grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Singapore
Tuition: $40K to $50K
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31. Boston (Questrom) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Boston, MA
Tuition: $110K to $120K
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30. ESSEC grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Paris, France/Singapore
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29. Erasmus (Rotterdam School of Management) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Tuition: $50K to $60K
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28. USC (Marshall) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
Tuition: $110K to $120K
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T-26. Melbourne grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $100K to $110K.
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Tuition and fees: $100K to $110K
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T-26. Copenhagen grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $70K to $89K.
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Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuition: $50K to $60K
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25. CEIBS grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $50K to $80K.
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Location: Shanghai, China
Tuition: $60K to $70K
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24. IMD grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $130K to $140K.
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Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Tuition and fees: $60K to $70K
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23. SDA Bocconi grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $110K to $120K.
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Location: Milan, Italy
Tuition and fees: $60K to $70K
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22. NYU (Stern) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: New York, NY
Tuition: Over $120K
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T-19. Duke (Fuqua) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of$120K to $130K.
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Location: Durham, NC
Tuition: Over $120K
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T-19. Imperial grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $80K to $90K.
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Location: London, UK
Tuition and fees: $60K to $70K
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T-19. Michigan (Ross) grads earn and average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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Tuition: Over $120K
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18. Yale grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $110K to $120K.
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Location: New Haven, CT
Tuition: Over $120K
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17. ESADE grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
Tuition and fees: $70K to $80K
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16. Oxford (Said) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $90K to $100K.
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Location: Oxford, UK
Tuition and fees: $70K to $80K
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15. Cambridge (Judge) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Cambridge, UK
Tuition: $70K to $80K
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14. IE Business School grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $80K to $90K.
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Location: Madrid, Spain
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Tuition and fees: $80K to $90K
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13. UCLA (Anderson) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
Tuition: Over $120K
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12. IESE Business School grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
Tuition and fees: $90K to $100K
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11. Columbia grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: New York, NY
Tuition and fees: Over $120
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10. Northwestern (Kellogg) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Evanston, IL
Tuition and fees: $70K to $80K
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9. UC Berkeley (Haas) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Berkeley, CA
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Tuition and fees: $110K to $120K
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8. Chicago (Booth) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $130K to $140K.
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Location: Chicago, IL
Tuition and fees: Over $120K
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7. HEC Paris grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Jouy-en-Josas, France
Tuition and fees: $60K to $70K
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6. London Business School grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $100K to $110K.
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Location: London, UK
Tuition and fees: $100K to $110K
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5. Harvard grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $130K to $140K.
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Location: Boston, MA
Tuition and fees: Over $120K
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T-3. MIT (Sloan) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $120K to $130K.
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Location: Cambridge, MA
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Tuition: Over $120K
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T-3. INSEAD grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $110K to $120K.
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Location: Fontainebleau, France/Singapore
Tuition: $90K to $100K
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T-1. Stanford grads earn an average post-graduation salary of$140K to $150K.
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Location: Stanford, CA
Tuition and fees: $110K to $120K
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T-1. Penn (Wharton) grads earn an average post-graduation salary of $130K to $140K.
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
Tuition and fees: Over $120K
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