2019 Global MBA Rankings

Career Climbers / 27th March 2019

This year CEO Magazine reached out to business schools across North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the BRICS, and received data from 144 schools, offering 292 different programmes in 25 countries (71 online, 91 EMBA and 130 full-time and part-time MBA programmes).

Using a ranking system entirely geared and weighted towards fact-based criteria, CEO Magazine aims to cut through the noise and provide potential students with a performance benchmark for those schools under review.

Weighting of Data Points (full-time and part-time MBA)

  • Quality of Faculty: 34.95%
  • International Diversity: 9.71%
  • Class Size: 9.71%
  • Accreditation: 8.74%
  • Faculty to Student Ratio: 7.76%
  • Price: 5.83%
  • International Exposure: 4.85%
  • Work Experience: 4.85%
  • Professional Development: 4.85%
  • Gender Parity: 4.85%
  • Delivery methods: 3.8%

*EMBA Weighting: Work experience and international diversity are adjusted accordingly.

**Online MBA Weighting: Delivery mode and class size are removed.

Schools are ranked as Tier One or Tier Two based on their overall percentage score from these data points.

To view the 2019 Global MBA Rankings, click here!

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