2003 rankings

Rankings methodology

School Rank (out of 100)

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management 1

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business 2

Stanford Graduate School of Business 3

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business 4

Chicago, University of - Graduate School of Business 5

Columbia Business School 6

Yale School of Management 7

IE - Instituto de Empresa 8

IMD - International Institute for Management Development 9

Michigan, University of - Business School 10

Cranfield School of Management 11

Virginia, University of - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration 12

Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management 13

UCLA - The Anderson School 14

New York University - Leonard N Stern School of Business 15

California at Berkeley, University of - Haas School of Business 16

Henley Management College 17

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management 18

INSEAD 19

Edinburgh, University of - Management School 20

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of - College of Business 21

York University - Schulich School of Business 22

London Business School 23

HEC School of Management, Paris 24

Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business 25

Aston Business School 26

Georgetown University - Robert Emmet McDonough School of Business 27

IESE Business School - University of Nxdyarra 28

Notre Dame, University of - Mendoza College of Business 29

Emory University - Goizueta Business School 30

Washington University in St Louis - Olin School of Business 31

Texas at Austin, University of - McCombs School of Business 32

Iowa, University of - Henry B Tippie School of Management 33

Carnegie Mellon University - Graduate School of Industrial Administration 34

North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of - Kenan-Flagler Business School 35

Southern California, University of - Marshall School of Business 36

Imperial College London - The Business School 37

Birmingham, University of - Birmingham Business School 38

Minnesota, University of - Carlson School of Management 39

Macquarie Graduate School of Management 40

Manchester Business School 41

Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management 42

Hult International Business School 43

Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business 44

Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad 45

Rochester, University of - William E Simon Graduate School of Business 46

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School 47

Purdue University - Krannert Graduate School of Management 48

Sheffield University Management School 49

Warwick Business School 50

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business 51

Maryland, University of - Robert H Smith School of Business 52

E.M. Lyon 53

Rice University - Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management 54

Nyenrode, Universiteit -The Netherlands Business School 55

Queen's School of Business - Queen's University 56

Oxford, University of - Saïd Business School 57

ESADE Business School 58

Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business 59

British Columbia, University of - Sauder School of Business 60

Durham Business School 61

Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management 62

Glasgow, University of - Business School 63

Western Ontario, University of - Richard Ivey School of Business 64

China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) 65

Pittsburgh, University of - Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business 66

Thunderbird - The American Graduate School of International Management 67

City University - Cass Business School 68

Rotterdam School of Management - Erasmus Graduate School of Business 69

Mt Eliza Business School 70

Lancaster University Management School 71

Wisconsin-Madison, University of - Graduate School of Business 72

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management 73

Bocconi University - SDA Bocconi School of Management 74

Monash University 75

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris - MBA Sciences Po 76

Cambridge, University of - Judge Institute of Management 77

Southampton, University of - School of Management 78

Hong Kong, University of - Faculty of Business and Economics 79

Nottingham University Business School 80

NIMBAS Graduate School of Management 81

International University of Japan - Graduate School of International Management 82

Ashridge 83

Australian Graduate School of Management 84

Georgia, University of - Terry College of Business 85

Bath, University of - School of Management 86

Strathclyde, University of - Graduate School of Business 87

Royal Holloway School of Management-University of London 88

University College Dublin - Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business 89

Leeds University Business School 90

Curtin University Graduate School of Business 91

ESCP-EAP European School of Management 92

Florida, University of - Warrington College of Business 93

International University of Monaco 94

Arizona, University of - Eller College of Business and Public Administration 95

Concordia University - John Molson School of Business 96

Melbourne Business School - University of Melbourne 97

Solvay Business School - Universit?Libre de Bruxelles 98

National University of Singapore - The NUS Business School 99

Dublin, University of - Trinity College School of Business Studies 100

To assess the fairness of the Economist Intelligence Unit's MBA rankings, Whitehead Mann examined our methodology and processes and found them to be satisfactory. Read their verdict here.

Unranked schools

The following schools were not included in the 2003 rankings. The inability to include them in the rankings does not reflect any shortcoming of the programme.

School

Cape Town, University of - Graduate School of Business

Kingston Business School - Kingston University

Maastricht School of Management

Middlesex University Business School

Newcastle upon Tyne, University of - Business School

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)

Norwegian School of Management BI

Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersand

ESSEC Business School

Open University Business School

Theseus International Management Institute

Harvard Business School

Heriot Watt University - Edinburgh Business School

ENPC School of International Management

Helsinki School of Economics

Stirling, University of - Faculty of Management

Queensland, University of - Business School

Babson College - Franklin W Olin Graduate School of Business

Brunel Graduate Business School

Chinese University of Hong Kong

McGill University - Faculty of Management

American University - Kogod School of Business

Calgary, University of - Haskayne School of Business

South Carolina, University of - Moore School of Business

Otago, University of - School of Business

Pennsylvania, University of - Wharton School

Bradford School of Management

Nanyang Business School - Nanyang Technological University

Kent at Canterbury, University of - Canterbury Business School