The 25 best MBA programs in the world for a career in tech
- QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global higher education analyst, released its list of the best MBA programs for people interested in a career in technology.
- This ranking is one of seven specializations lists that were recently published; The best MBAs for a career in finance was another one of these rankings that looks at a specific career path.
- MIT Sloan School of Management's MBA program was named the best MBA for a career in tech.
- The following are the top 25 MBAs in the world for a career in tech, according to QS.
If you are planning to enroll in a MBA program to get ahead in a career within the tech industry, you may want to check out one of these top schools.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global higher education analyst, recently released the best MBAs for seven different career specializations. This includes the best MBAs for a career in tech.
QS used three different data sources to develop these rankings: its Global Employer Survey, its Business School Survey, and publishing company Elsevier's Scopus database. Each program's overall score out of 100 is based on three metrics used to evaluate the business school's MBA program. These three metrics are career placement in the tech industry, research strength related to "management of technology and innovation," and employer reputation in the industry per QS' website.
The MBA program at MIT Sloan School of Management was named the best for a career in tech in this year's ranking, same as last year's ranking. According to QS, MIT Sloan had scores of at least 95 for the three metrics that make up the overall index: 95 in career placement, 99.4 in employer reputation, and 97 in research strength. Stanford Graduate School of Business took on the second spot, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkley, took on third, swapping spots from last year's ranking.
The following are the 25 best MBA programs for a career in tech, according to QS Quacquarelli Symonds. We also included the overall specialization ranking score and the share of the 2019 class that are going into this industry. The full list and other specialization rankings can be found on QS' website.
25. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Overall score: 74.3
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 21%
24. IESE Business School
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Overall score: 74.4
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 15%
23. NYU (Stern)
Location: New York, New York
Overall score: 75.6
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 15%
22. HEC Paris
Location: Jouy en Josas, France
Overall score: 76.2
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 16%
21. Columbia Business School
Location: New York, New York
Overall score: 77.3
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 11%
20. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Overall score: 79.4
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 30%
19. National University of Singapore (NUS)
Location: Singapore
Overall score: 80.6
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 37%
18. IE Business School
Location: Madrid, Spain
Overall score: 80.7
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 23%
17. Chicago (Booth)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Overall score: 81.3
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 20%
Read more about The University of Chicago Booth School of Business here.
16. Washington (Foster)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Overall score: 82.3
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 60%
Read more about the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington here.
15. INSEAD
Location: Paris, France; Singapore
Overall score: 83.0
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 14%
14. Texas (McCombs)
Location: Austin, Texas
Overall score: 83.1
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 26%
13. London Business School
Location: London, United Kingdom
Overall score: 84.8
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 20%
12. Esade Business School
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Overall score: 85.1
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 34%
11. Duke (Fuqua)
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Overall score: 85.2
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 23%
10. Penn (Wharton)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overall score: 85.8
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 15%
Read more about Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania here.
9. Oxford (Saïd)
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Overall score: 87.0
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 24%
8. UCLA (Anderson)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Overall score: 87.9
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 31%
7. Michigan (Ross)
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Overall score: 88.5
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 22%
6. Northwestern (Kellogg)
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Overall score: 88.7
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 23%
5. Harvard Business School
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Overall score: 90.3
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 20%
4. Cambridge (Judge)
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Overall score: 90.6
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 36%
3. UC Berkeley (Haas)
Location: Berkeley, California
Overall score: 94.2
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 33%
2. Stanford Graduate School of Business
Location: Stanford, California
Overall score: 94.4
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 24%
1. MIT (Sloan)
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overall score: 95.2
Share of graduates going into the tech industry: 29%
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