According to the just released Financial Times MBA Ranking 2009, released on January 26, ISB Hyderabad has been ranked as the 15th best MBA in the world! ISB was ranked at # 20 in the last year's ranking by FT.
London Business School is ranked in the number one slot jointly with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, Insead have been ranked at #3, #4 and #5 slots on FT MBA Ranking 09.
ISB rise to the top of world management scene is expected to give a huge boost to the image of India as a knowledge destination in management domain. As the news sinks in at the ISB campus on the outskirts of Hyderabad, ISB is sure to bask in the new found glory on the world stage.
Financial Times MBA ranking is widely followed around the world as one of the most definitive MBA rankings. The FT MBA 2009 ranking charts the rise of the Asian B-schools. Shanghai-based China European International Business School (Ceibs) was ranked number eight, becoming the first Chinese business school to make the top 10. Three Asian schools, two in China and one in India, feature in the top 20.
Financial Times Ranking notes the rise of Asian B-schools, particularly China and India. Writes Financial Times' Della Bradshaw in her FT article on January 26, 2009, "The ranking of the top 100 full-time MBA programmes is dominated by American business schools, with 56 of the 100 based in the US. Yet the FT rankings have also over time reflected the growth in high-quality MBA programmes outside the US, first in Europe and more recently in China, India and Singapore. Many Asian students are preferring to study for MBAs in their own country. They are being well rewarded. Salary data collected for the rankings show that Chinese students who study in China receive comparable salaries to those who go to a US or European business school. Indian students who study in India and then work in India after they graduate receive the highest salary increase of all Indian students. Their pay outranked that of their peers who complete MBA courses in Europe or the US."
The FT MBA ranking 2009 was compiled from data supplied by 9,000 business school alumni working in 130 countries.
FT GLOBAL MBA Ranking 2009
1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton, U.S.A.
2. London Business School, U.K.
3. Harvard Business School, U.S.A.
4. Columbia Business School, U.S.A.
5. Insead, France / Singapore
6. Stanford University GSB, U.S.A
7. IE Business School, Spain
8. Ceibs, China
9. MIT: Sloan, U.S.A.
10. New York University: Stern, U.S.A
11. University of Chicago: Booth, U.S.A
12. Iese Business School, Spain
13. Dartmouth College: Tuck, U.S.A.
14. IMD, Switzerland
15. Indian School of Business, India
16. Hong Kong UST Business School, China
17. University of Cambridge: Judge, U.K
18. Esade Business School, Spain
19. Yale School of Management, U.S.A
20. University of Oxford: Saïd, U.K.
21. Northwestern University: Kellogg, U.S.A
22. Duke University: Fuqua, U.S.A
23. University of Michigan: Ross, U.S.A
24. Emory University: Goizueta, U.S.A
25. Nanyang Business School, Singapore
Source: Financial Times
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