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The Economist bases their Best Full-time MBA ranking on a survey of business schools (80%), students and alumni (20%).  Survey takers weigh access to career opportunities, personal development/education experience, salary increase, and ability to network.

See Clear Admit’s analysis of The Economist’s 2019 Best MBA Rankings here. Stay tuned for our 2022 analysis.

You may also be interested in these MBA rankings: Forbes Ranking, Financial Times RankingUS News & World Report RankingBloomberg BusinessWeek Ranking. You can also find more detailed coverage of the MBA rankings here.

Take a look at the publication’s top Full-time MBA programs in 2022 below.

Ranking School
1 Harvard Business School
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4 Columbia Business School
5 MIT Sloan School of Management
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7 HEC Paris
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9 University of Chicago Booth School of Business
10 University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business
11 Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business
12 UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
13 SDA Bocconi
14 University of Virginia Darden School of Business
15 NYU Stern School of Business
16 IESE Business School
17 Yale School of Management
18 EDHEC Business School
19 Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School
20 UCLA Anderson School of Management
21 University of Florida: Warrington
22 Cornell University SC Johnson Graduate School of Management
23 Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
24 University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business
25 Mannheim Business School
26 UW Foster School of Business
27 Indiana University Kelley School of Business
28 Warwick Business School
29 ESADE Business School
30 EMLYON Business School
31 University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
32 Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business
33 USC Marshall School of Business
34  Ohio State Fisher College of Business
35 Emory University Goizueta Business School
36 University of Georgia Terry College of Business
37 Hult International Business School
38 Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
39 UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
40 York University – Schulich School of Business
41 Penn State Smeal College of Business
42 IMD Business School
43 University of Hong Kong – HKU Business School
44 University of Rochester Simon Business School
45 Arizona State W.P. Carey School of Business
46 Notre Dame University Mendoza College of Business
47 University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
48 Michigan State University – Eli Broad College of Business
49 The University of Queensland Business School
50 International University of Monaco
51 Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
52 ESSEC Business School
53 SMU Cox School of Business
54 Nanyang Technological University – Nanyang Business School
55 University of Wisconsin-Madison – Wisconsin School of Business
56 EADA Business School Barcelona
57 University of Maryland – Robert H Smith School of Business
58 Brigham Young University: Marriott
59 UC Irvine Merage School of Business
60 Boston University – Questrom School of Business