How to assess the quality of MBA programs?
By Thomas Graf
Rankings on programs and business schools are one means to proxy this. If a program stays in the top ten ot top twenty over many years this is often a signal that the program really is a good program. If a program climbs the ranking ladder from position 90 to 50 and then to 34, this looks interesting as well. On the other hand, rankings follow a methodology that you should read carefully. Below you find the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2013.
- Please read our Article "Comparison of Global MBA Rankings from Financial Times, Business Week, The Economist, U.S. News, and Forbes".
- To the Financial Times Ranking page
1. Harvard Business School
| Country: USA City: Boston |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
2. Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
| Country: USA City: Stanford |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
3. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
| Country: USA City: Philadelphia (also: San Francisco) |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
4. London Business School (LBS) 
| Country: UK City: London |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
5. Columbia Business School, Columbia University
| Country: USA City: New York |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
6. INSEAD
| Country: France City: Fontainebleau (also Abu Dhab & Singapore) |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
7. IESE Business School, University of Navarra
| Country: Spain City: Barcelona (also: Madrid, São Paulo, New York, Munich) |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
8. HKUST Business School
| Country: China City: Hong Kong |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
9. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
| Country: USA City: Cambridge |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
10. Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
| Country: USA City: Chicago |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
11. IE Business School
| Country: Spain City: Madrid |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English , Spanish
Entry Requirements: GMAT/GRE or school's own test |
12. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
| Country: USA City: Berkeley |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
13. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
| Country: USA City: Evanston |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
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14. Yale School of Management
| Country: USA City: New Haven |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
15. CEIBS
| Country: China City: Shanghai |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT/GRE or school's own test |
16. Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
| Country: USA City: Hanover |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
16. Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
| Country: UK City: Cambridge |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
18. Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
| Country: USA City: Durham |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
19. IMD Business School
| Country: Switzerland City: Lausanne |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
19. NYU Stern, New York University
| Country: USA City: New York |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
21. HEC Paris
| Country: France City: Jouy-en-Josas Cedex |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
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22. Esade Business School
| Country: Spain City: Barcelona |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year , max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
23. UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California
| Country: USA City: Los Angeles |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
24. Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
| Country: UK City: Oxford |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
24. Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management
| Country: USA City: Ithaca |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
26. Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad
| Country: India City: Ahmedabad |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
27. CUHK Business School
| Country: China City: Hong Kong |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
28. Warwick Business School
| Country: UK City: Coventry |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
29. Manchester Business School
| Country: UK City: Manchester |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
30. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
| Country: USA City: Ann Arbor |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
31. Hong Kong University
| Country: China City: Hong Kong |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
32. Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
| Country: Singapore City: Singapore |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
33. RSM - Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
| Country: The Netherlands City: Rotterdam |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
34. Indian School of Business
| Country: India City: Hyderabad |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
35. Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
| Country: USA City: Charlottesville |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
36. NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
| Country: Singapore City: Singapore |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
37. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University
| Country: USA City: Houston, Texas |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT/GRE or school's own test |
38. Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University
| Country: UK City: Bedford |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT/GRE or school's own test |
39. SDA Bocconi School of Management
| Country: Italy City: Milano |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
40. Cass Business School, City University
| Country: UK City: London |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
40. McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
| Country: USA City: Washington |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
42. Imperial College Business School
| Country: UK City: London |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT/GRE or school's own test |
43. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
| Country: USA City: Pittsburgh (also: New York) |
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› MBA
Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
44. Urbana-Champaign College of Business, University of Illinois
| Country: USA City: Champaign |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
45. Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
| Country: USA City: Chapel Hill |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
46. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
| Country: Canada City: Toronto, Ontario |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
46. McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
| Country: USA City: Austin |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
48. Australian School of Business (AGSM)
| Country: Australia City: Sydney |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
49. Goizueta Business School, Emory University
| Country: USA City: Atlanta, Georgia |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
50. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
| Country: USA City: College Park |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
51. GSB SKKU Graduate School of Business
| Country: South Korea City: Seoul |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: neither GMAT nor GRE |
52. Schulich School of Business, York University
| Country: USA City: Toronto, Ontario |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
53. Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
| Country: USA City: Nashville |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
54. Kelley School of Business, Indian University Bloomington
| Country: USA City: Bloomington |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
54. Olin Business School, Washington University in St.Louis
| Country: USA City: St. Louis |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
54. Merage School of Business, University of California (Irvine)
| Country: USA City: Irvine |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
57. Hult International Business School
| Country: USA, also: UK, United Arab Emirates, China City: Cambridge (Boston), also San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
57. Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
| Country: Canada City: Vancouver |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
59. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester
| Country: USA City: Rochester |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
59. Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
| Country: USA City: Atlanta |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
61. Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Catholic University of Portugal
| Country: Portugal City: Lisboa |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
62. Melbourne Business School
| Country: Australia City: Melbourne, Carlton |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
62. Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
| Country: USA City: East Lansing |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
64. UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
| Country: Ireland City: Blackrock, Co. Dublin |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
64. TiasNimbas Business School, Tilburg University
| Country: The Netherlands City: Campus Utrecht |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
66. Coppead Graduate School of Business
| Country: Brazil City: Rio de Janeiro |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English , Portuguese
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
66. Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
| Country: China City: Beijing |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: Chinese
Entry Requirements: neither GMAT nor GRE |
68. Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
| Country: USA City: West Lafayette |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
69. Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
| Country: USA City: College Station |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
69. Mannheim Business School
| Country: Germany City: Mannheim |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
71. Lancaster University Management School
| Country: UK City: Lancaster |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
72. Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University
| Country: USA City: Columbus, Ohio |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
72. University of Bath School of Management
| Country: UK City: Bath |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
74. University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business
| Country: South Africa City: Green Point, Cape Town |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
74. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
| Country: USA City: Iowa City |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
76. McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
| Country: Canada City: Montréal |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
77. Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University
| Country: USA City: University Park |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
78. Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
| Country: Canada City: London |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
78. Foster School of Business, University of Washington
| Country: USA City: Seattle |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
80. Babson College
| Country: USA City: Wellesley, Massachusetts (also San Francisco) |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
81. A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
| Country: USA City: New Orleans |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
82. Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
| Country: USA City: Los Angeles |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
82. University of St.Gallen (HSG)
| Country: Switzerland City: St.Gallen |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English , German
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
83. University of Edinburgh Business School
| Country: UK City: Edinburgh |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
84. Vlerick Business School
| Country: Belgium City: Gent |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
84. George Washington University, School of Business
| Country: USA City: Washington, D.C. |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
86. Korea University Business School (KUBS)
| Country: South Korea City: Seoul |
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Teaching Mode: Part-time
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: neither GMAT nor GRE |
87. University of Strathclyde Business School
| Country: UK City: Glasgow |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: neither GMAT nor GRE |
87. W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
| Country: USA City: Tempe |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
89. Fudan University School of Management
| Country: China City: Shanghai |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: neither GMAT nor GRE |
90. INCAE Business School
| Country: Costa Rica (also Nicaragua) City: La Garita, Alajuela |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English , Spanish
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
91. Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
| Country: USA City: Madison |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
92. EMLyon Business School
| Country: France City: Ecully |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English , French
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
93. Carroll School of Management, Boston College
| Country: USA City: Chestnut Hill |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
94. Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
| Country: USA City: Cleveland |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
95. Boston University, School of Management
| Country: USA City: Boston |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
95. Bradford University School of Management
| Country: UK City: Bradford |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
95. San Diego Rady School of Management, University of California
| City: MC 0554 La Jolla |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: neither GMAT nor GRE |
97. Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary
| Country: USA City: Williamsburg |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
98. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU)
| Country: USA City: Dallas, Texas |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
99. Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
| Country: USA City: Columbia |
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Teaching Mode: Part-time
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
100. Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta
| Country: Canada City: Alberta |
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Teaching Mode: Fulltime
Program Length: max 2 years, more than 1 year
Program Language: English
Entry Requirements: GMAT or GRE |
