Following up on our coverage of LinkedIn’s 2025 Top MBA Programs, we wanted to take a closer look at the major year-to-year changes: the greatest gains, biggest losses, new arrivals and departures.
To start, here is a look at the programs that made the biggest jumps in the top 100 rankings from 2024 to 2025.
| School | 2024 Rank | 2025 Rank | Change |
| EADA Business School | 88 | 69 | ▲19 |
| National University of Singapore NUS Business School | 89 | 72 | ▲17 |
| University of Toronto Rotman School of Management | 66 | 49 | ▲17 |
| City, University of London Bayes Business School | 67 | 51 | ▲16 |
| EDHEC Business School | 60 | 44 | ▲16 |
| Copenhagen Business School | 93 | 79 | ▲14 |
| Baruch College Zicklin School of Business | 92 | 80 | ▲12 |
| WashU Olin Business School | 54 | 43 | ▲11 |
| SDA Bocconi School of Management | 58 | 47 | ▲11 |
| Indian Institute of Management Indore | 46 | 36 | ▲10 |
The following chart rounds up programs with the greatest declines in the LinkedIn rankings, from 2024 to 2025.
| School | 2024 Rank | 2025 Rank | Change |
| Indiana Kelley School of Business | 74 | 95 | -21 |
| Georgia Terry College of Business | 72 | 90 | -18 |
| Rice Business | 45 | 61 | -16 |
| Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business | 69 | 83 | -14 |
| University of St. Gallen | 48 | 62 | -14 |
| Tel Aviv University Coller School of Management | 70 | 84 | -14 |
| Alliance Manchester Business School | 52 | 66 | -14 |
| Florida Warrington College of Business | 82 | 94 | -12 |
| Washington Foster School of Business | 76 | 86 | -10 |
| Boston College Carroll School of Management | 83 | 92 | -9 |
The following schools joined the ranking in 2025 (ranking in parentheses).
- Tilburg University TIAS School for Business and Society (54)
- Queen’s University Smith School of Business (57)
- Université de Montréal HEC Montréal (76)
- Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (91)
- UBC Sauder School of Business (96)
- Syracuse Whitman School of Management (98)
- Miami Herbert Business School (99)
The schools below dropped from the ranking between 2024 and 2025 (2024 ranking in parentheses).
- WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (14)
- China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) (41)
- Universidad Panamericana IPADE Business School (90)
- Brigham Young Marriott School of Business (96)
- Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (97)
- UMD Robert H. Smith School of Business (98)
- Denver Daniels College of Business (100)
While the bottom of rankings lists tend to fluctuate the most, it is surprising to lose the likes of WHU and CEIBS, given their consistent performance in rankings.
