QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global higher- and business-education analyst, just released its 2021 Global MBA Ranking.
To find the best MBA programs, QS used five key metrics to develop an overall index: employability, entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, return on investment, thought leadership, and class and faculty diversity.
"In addition to analyzing program-related inputs, QS also considered the reputation of specific business schools from the perspective of nearly 37,000 global employers and more than 34,000 global academics," Dr. Andrew MacFarlane, the rankings manager at QS, said about the latest world rankings. "Finally, we mapped the education paths of 27,831 successful alumni back to specific institutions."
Interest in recruiting business school graduates has picked up again after falling amid uncertainty earlier in the pandemic, according to a Graduate Management Admission Council survey in September.
Stanford Graduate School of Business ranked at the top again, while the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School dropped to second place after tying for first in last year's ranking.
Read on to find out the top 50 global MBA programs, along with typical costs and the average salary earned three months after graduating. The full list and other rankings, such as programs specializing in finance or supply chain management, can be found on QS' TopMBA website.