Harvard Business School Crowned No. 1 By Poets & Quants
Poets & Quants released its 2015 MBA ranking this week, and Harvard Business School has reclaimed the title of world’s best business school after rebounding from second place last year. HBS has landed the top spot for five of the six years P&Q has published its composite ranking.
The school will continue to have a huge head start in maintaining that lead given its $3 billion endowment, which is three times the size of Stanford Graduate School of Business, its nearest competitor, notes P&Q editor John A. Byrne in Fortune. HBS has already raised more than $860 million toward the school’s $1 billion capital campaign, which still has three years remaining.
“No rival beats Harvard in the formidable resources it brings to the game: more superstar professors than any other school, the diversity of its course offerings, the stellar quality of its students, the size and scope of its campus, and the career achievements of its alumni spread all over the world,” writes Byrnes.
Top Ten U.S. MBA Programs
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Chicago Booth School of Business
- University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School
- Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management
- Columbia Business School
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business
- Yale School of Management
Top Ten International MBA Programs
- INSEAD
- London Business School
- IESE Business School
- IE Business School
- HEC Paris
- IMD
- Cambridge Judge Business School
- ESADE
- SDA Bocconi
- Oxford Saïd Business School
According to Poets & Quants, the lineup of the best U.S. MBA programs combines the five most influential rankings but each is weighted separately to reflect P&Q’s view of their authority: U.S. News & World Report is given a weight of 35%, Forbes 25%, Bloomberg Businessweek 15%, The Financial Times 15%, and The Economist receives a weight of 10%.
“The list is far more stable–and reliable–than most rankings published elsewhere, taking into account a massive wealth of quantitative and qualitative data captured in these major lists, from surveys of corporate recruiters, MBA graduates, deans and faculty publication records to median GPA and GMAT scores of entering students as well as the latest salary and employment statistics of alumni,” Byrne explains.
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