Bloomberg Businessweek

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March 11, 2019

Edited by

Dimitra Kessenides

S O L U T I O N S

Business Schools

The 2018 Bloomberg

Businessweek Best

B-Schools global

ranking of full-time MBA

programs relies on

surveys from employers.

To understand what

matters most to

recruiters, we looked

closely at the following

six survey categories

for the top 30 schools

in the ranking. Recruiters

scored each school;

those that are tied are

listed alphabetically.

Best B-Schools 2018

Global Ranking Top 10

① Stanford

② Pennsylvania (Wharton)

③ Harvard

④ MIT (Sloan)

⑤ Chicago (Booth)

⑥ UC at Berkeley (Haas)

⑦ Columbia

⑧ Northwestern (Kellogg)

⑨ Virginia (Darden)

⑩ IMD

Recruiters ’

Wish Lists

The schools producing

the most creative graduates

Beyond the MBA basics, recruiters consider the

schools that are best at teaching innovation and

original thinking.

① Stanford

② Yale

③ Georgetown (McDonough)

④ UC at Berkeley (Haas)

⑤ Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

The schools that provide the most

diverse pool of job candidates

Notably, three of the top five in this cate-

gory are international programs—INSEAD in

Fontainebleau, France; IESE in Barcelona; and

IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

① Yale

② Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

② INSEAD (tie)

④ IESE Business School

⑤ IMD

The schools producing the best-

trained graduates

Recruiters compare the training of MBAs at

one school vs. other schools they hire from.

① Brigham Young (Marriott)

① Georgetown (McDonough) (tie)

③ Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

④ North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)

④ Yale (tie)