European 1-Year MBA programs turn out to beat the US 2-Year programs when it comes to return of investment (ROI). 

This is the result of Forbes' new MBA ranking, published 9 October 2013. In contrast to MBA rankings from Financial Times, Businessweek, US News, or The Economist, Forbes ranks the schools based on alumni salaries 5 years from graduating. Find here our article "Comparison of MBA Ranking Methodologies".

• Forbes US MBA Ranking 2013
• Forbes Non-US MBA Ranking 2013

 

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Forbes US MBA Ranking 2013

1. Stanford
2. Chicago (Booth)
3. Harvard
4. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5. Northwestern (Kellogg)
6. Dartmouth (Tuck)
7. Columbia
8. Duke (Fuqua)
9. Cornell (Johnson)
10. Michigan (Ross)
11. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
12. MIT (Sloan)
13. UCLA (Anderson)
14. UC Berkeley (Haas)
15. Virginia (Darden)
16. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
17. Brigham Young (Marriott)
18. Yale
19. Indiana (Kelley)
20. Iowa (Tippie)
21. Texas-Austin (McCombs)
22. Michigan State (Broad)
23. NYU (Stern)
24. Emory (Goizueta)
25. Minnesota (Carlson)
26. Penn State (Smeal)
27. Washington (Foster)
28. Purdue (Krannert)
29. Notre Dame (Mendoza)
30. Texas A&M (Mays)
31. SMU (Cox)
32. Wisconsin-Madison
33. Georgetown (McDonough)
34. Washington U-St. Louis(Olin)
35. Georgia Tech (Scheller)
36. Ohio State (Fisher)
37. USC (Marshall)
38. Rochester (Simon)
39. Vanderbilt (Owen)
40. Buffalo
41. Rice (Jones)
42. Maryland (Smith)
43. Wake Forest
44. Boston U
45. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
46. Connecticut
47. William & Mary (Mason)
48. Pittsburgh (Katz)
49. Georgia (Terry)
50. UC Davis
51. Boston College (Carroll)
52. Rollins (Crummer)
53. South Carolina (Moore)
54. Tulane (Freeman)
55. Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim)
56. Alabama (Manderson)
57. Arizona (Eller)
58. Missouri (Trulaske)
59. Temple (Fox)
60. Arizona State (Carey)
61. UC Irvine (Merage)
62. Case Western (Weatherhead)
63. Florida (Hough)
64. San Diego State
65. Utah (Eccles)
66. CUNY Baruch (Zicklin)
67. Louisiana State (Ourso)
68. Miami
69. Pepperdine (Graziadio)
70. Colorado (Leeds)

 

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Forbes Non-US MBA Ranking 2013

1. IMD
2. Insead
3. SDA Bocconi
4. London
5. IE Business School
6. Oxford (Said)
7. Warwick
8. Cambridge (Judge)
9. National University of Singapore
10. Cranfield
11. Hong Kong UST
12. Lancaster
13. Manchester
14. IESE
15. Ipade
16. City U (Cass)
17. Ceibs
18. Esade
19. S P Jain
20. HEC Paris
21. York (Schulich)
22. HEC Montreal
23. British Columbia (Sauder)
24. Australian GSM