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Financial Times Publishes 2006 Global MBA Rankings

Posted on: Monday, 30 January 2006, 15:00 CST

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Financial Times today published their 2006 Global MBA Rankings table, which can be found in the Business Education section of the paper, http://www.ft.com/businesseducation. Accompanying the rankings tables are many timely articles relating to North American and global MBA programs.

This year sees the eighth FT Global MBA ranking, which evaluates full-time Masters in Business Administration programs from the world's top business schools and offers a comprehensive evaluation of the qualification and an insight into each of these schools.

This year's survey results indicate that the full-time MBA program will once again establish itself as the degree of choice among the world's business elite. Those graduating from top programs are commanding higher salaries than any MBA graduates in the past decade and the fall in applicants has slowed.

The data for this ranking was gathered from 75 qualifying business schools and also from their alumni of three years. The number of alumni respondents is higher than last year, with responses from 8,300 eligible alumni (36 per cent of all the questionnaires e-mailed to MBA alumni). This data spanning 21 categories aims to expose three main areas: the alumni's career development and purchasing power; the diversity of the school and its program; and each school's research capabilities.

This year, the rankings show that the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has maintained its title as the world's number one business school for the third year in a row. Harvard University, who shared the number one spot with the Wharton school last year having regained this title after four years, slipped back into second place. Trailing closely behind within the top five are Stanford University GSB, Columbia Business School, and London Business School.

In total this year's top 100 global business schools includes 57 US schools, 27 European, seven Canadian, two from Australia, two from China, and three from Central and South America. Singapore and South Africa are also represented.

FINANCIAL TIMES Global MBA 2006 The top 100 full-time global MBA programs Rank Rank Rank 3 year School name Country in in in average 2006 2005 2004 rank 1 1 1 1 University of Pennsylvania: Wharton U.S.A. 2 1 2 2 Harvard Business School U.S.A. 3 4 7 5 Stanford University GSB U.S.A. 4 3 3 3 Columbia Business School U.S.A. 5 5 4 5 London Business School U.K. 6 6 4 5 University of Chicago GSB U.S.A. 7 9 8 8 New York University: Stern U.S.A. 8 7 10 8 Dartmouth College: Tuck U.S.A. 8 8 4 7 Insead France / Singapore 10 13 9 11 MIT: Sloan U.S.A. 11 9 13 11 Yale School of Management U.S.A. 12 19 15 15 Instituto de Empresa Spain 13 12 13 13 Iese Business School Spain 14 13 12 13 IMD Switzerland 14 16 30 20 University of Michigan: Ross U.S.A. 16 13 22 17 UC Berkeley: Haas U.S.A. 17 11 11 13 Northwestern University: Kellogg U.S.A. 18 22 22 21 York University: Schulich Canada 19 26 32 26 UCLA: Anderson U.S.A. 20 25 26 24 University of Oxford: Said U.K. 21 22 53 32 Ceibs China 22 37 53 37 HEC Paris France 22 44 37 34 Manchester Business School U.K. 24 29 22 25 RSM Erasmus University Netherlands 24 21 21 22 University of Toronto: Rotman Canada 24 20 19 21 University of Virginia: Darden U.S.A. 27 18 20 22 Duke University: Fuqua U.S.A. 27 35 71 44 Esade Business School Spain 29 17 17 21 University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler U.S.A. 30 39 69 46 Lancaster University Management School U.K. 31 49 51 44 Michigan State University: Broad U.S.A. 31 34 29 31 University of Western Ontario: Ivey Canada / China 33 35 49 39 University of Iowa: Tippie U.S.A. 34 42 30 35 SDA Bocconi Italy 35 42 34 37 University of Cambridge: Judge U.K. 36 24 16 25 Cornell University: Johnson U.S.A. 36 32 17 28 Georgetown University: McDonough U.S.A. 38 30 27 32 University of Maryland: Smith U.S.A. 39 48 40 42 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign U.S.A. 40 27 35 34 University of Rochester: Simon U.S.A. 41 32 28 34 Carnegie Mellon: Tepper U.S.A. 42 27 22 30 Emory University: Goizueta U.S.A. 42 55 44 47 Pennsylvania State: Smeal U.S.A. 44 39 39 41 McGill University Canada 45 49 75 56 Brigham Young University: Marriott U.S.A. 46 58 63 56 Cranfield School of Management U.K. 47 60 42 50 City University: Cass U.K. 47 44 69 53 Hong Kong UST Business School China 47 53 75 58 Imperial College London: Tanaka U.K. 50 44 63 52 Boston University School of Management U.S.A. 51 73 49 58 College of William and Mary U.S.A. 52 53 32 46 Warwick Business School U.K. 52 66 42 53 Washington University: Olin U.S.A. 54 66 73 64 Thunderbird: Garvin U.S.A. 54 37 38 43 University of Southern California: Marshall U.S.A. 56 82 80 73 University of Georgia: Terry U.S.A. 57 -- -- -- Boston College U.S.A. 57 52 60 56 University of Minnesota: Carlson U.S.A. 59 39 75 58 University of Notre Dame: Mendoza U.S.A. 59 31 44 45 Vanderbilt University: Owen U.S.A. 61 93 -- -- University of Washington Business School U.S.A. 62 57 46 55 University of Texas at Austin: McCombs U.S.A. 63 -- 95 -- Ashridge U.K. 63 49 84 65 Case Western Reserve: Weatherhead U.S.A. 65 76 86 76 University of Bradford/Universiteit Nimbas U.K. / Netherlands / Germany 66 82 -- -- University of Cape Town South Africa 67 47 48 54 Rice University: Jones U.S.A. 67 74 -- -- Temple University: Fox U.S.A. 69 63 72 68 Melbourne Business School Australia 70 71 80 74 Wake Forest University: Babcock U.S.A. 71 55 67 64 University of British Columbia: Sauder Canada 72 66 60 66 Arizona State University: Carey U.S.A. 72 79 40 64 Ohio State University: Fisher U.S.A. 72 60 59 64 SMU: Cox U.S.A. 75 84 53 71 Australian Graduate School of Management Australia 75 97 -- -- George Washington University U.S.A. 77 64 63 68 Babson College: Olin U.S.A. 77 -- 46 -- Purdue University: Krannert U.S.A. 79 76 91 82 University of California: Davis U.S.A. 80 84 94 86 Georgia Institute of Technology U.S.A. 80 -- 56 -- University of Wisconsin-Madison U.S.A. 82 93 93 89 Edinburgh University Management School U.K. 82 -- -- -- Leeds University Business School U.K. 82 64 60 69 University of California at Irvine: Merage U.S.A. 85 88 79 84 Texas A & M University: Mays U.S.A. 85 98 86 90 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 87 75 52 71 Queen's School of Business Canada 88 93 -- -- Birmingham Business School U.K. 89 86 84 86 University College Dublin: Smurfit Ireland 90 -- 86 -- Incae Costa Rica 91 -- 89 -- University of Tennessee at Knoxville U.S.A. 92 86 -- -- Coppead Brazil 92 -- -- -- National University of Singapore Singapore 94 91 82 89 University of Durham Business School U.K. 95 92 -- -- Pepperdine University: Graziadio U.S.A. 96 -- -- -- University of Florida U.S.A. 97 79 78 85 Ipade Mexico 98 -- 97 -- University of Alberta Canada 99 100 98 99 ESCP-EAP France 100 -- -- -- Nottingham University Business School U.K. About the Financial Times

Financial Times is firmly established as one of the world's leading business information brands, internationally recognized for its authoritative, accurate, and incisive news, comment and analysis. Whether in print or online, the Financial Times is essential reading for the global business community.

Printed in 24 sites worldwide, the Financial Times newspaper currently has a daily circulation of over 433, 858 and a readership of more than 1.3 million people worldwide. FT.com (http://www.ft.com/) is one of the world's leading business information portals, and the Internet partner of the Financial Times. It combines agenda-setting editorial content with comment and analysis, relevant financial data, discussion groups, unique dossiers on key business people and a range of tools to search the web, manage a working day and seek out leisure opportunities. FT.com has 3.9 million unique monthly users that generate over 45.7 million monthly page views.

For more information on the Financial Times or on our global MBA ranking please contact:

Jolie Hunt Director, Public Relations Financial Times 212-641-6611 or jolie.hunt@ft.com Courtney Dolan Public Relations Manager Financial Times 212-641-6360 or courtney.dolan@ft.com

Financial Times

CONTACT: Jolie Hunt, Director, Public Relations, +1-212-641-6611,jolie.hunt@ft.com, or Courtney Dolan, Public Relations Manager,+1-212-641-6360, courtney.dolan@ft.com, both of Financial Times

Web site: http://www.ft.com/http://www.ft.com/businesseducation

Source: PRNewswire

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