The 25 best MBA programs for people who want to work in tech

Andy KierszNov 4, 2018, 21:00 IST

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If you want to work in tech, an MBA can be a very helpful boost to your career.
Higher- and business-education specialist QS Quacquarelli Symonds recently released its 2019 Global MBA Ranking, evaluating 251 of the best business schools in the world.
QS provided Business Insider with estimates of how many graduates from the top programs went into the tech industry.

Getting an MBA can be a huge boost to a career in tech.

Higher- and business-education specialists QS Quacquarelli Symonds released its 2019 Global MBA Ranking, evaluating 251 of the best business schools in the world based on data provided by the schools and surveys of employers and academics.

To get an idea of which MBA programs were best-suited to those going into the tech industry, QS provided Business Insider with estimates of how many graduates in the class of 2017 from the top-60 business schools in the QS ranking went into tech, based on MBACSEA reporting standards.

Here are the 25 MBA programs among the top 60 in the world with the most graduates going into the tech industry.

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24 (tie). University of Virginia (Darden)

Location: Charlottesville, VA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 46

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 14%

Read more about Darden at TopMBA »

24 (tie). Boston University (Questrom)

Location: Boston, MA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 46

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 28%

23. ESADE

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 52

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 28%

Read more about ESADE at TopMBA »

22. University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)

Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 55

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 19%

21. NYU (Stern)

Location: New York, NY

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 58

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 17%

20. Dartmouth (Tuck)

Location: Hanover, NH

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 59

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 20%

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19. IESE Business School

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 62

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 18%

18. IE Business School

Location: Madrid, Spain

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 65

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 20%

16 (tie). University of Texas (McCombs)

Location: Austin, TX

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 80

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 30%

Read more about McCombs at TopMBA »

16 (tie). Yale

Location: New Haven, CT

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 80

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 23%

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15. Duke (Fuqua)

Location: Durham, NC

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 82

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 19%

Read more about Fuqua at TopMBA »

14. Cambridge (Judge)

Location: Cambridge, UK

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 83

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 40%

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13. London Business School

Location: London, UK

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 86

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 20%

12. UC Berkeley (Haas)

Location: Berkeley, CA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 89

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 37%

Read more about Haas at TopMBA »

11. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 95

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 43%

Read more about Tepper at TopMBA »

10. University of Michigan (Ross)

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 100

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 24%

Read more about Ross at TopMBA »

9. INSEAD

Location: Fontainbleau, France/Singapore

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 102

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 19%

Read more about INSEAD at TopMBA »

8. Stanford

Location: Stanford, CA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 105

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 25%

6 (tie). University of Chicago (Booth)

Location: Chicago, IL

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 109

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 19%

Read more about Booth at TopMBA »

6 (tie). UCLA (Anderson)

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 109

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 30%

5. Columbia

Location: New York, NY

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 117

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 16%

4. Northwestern (Kellogg)

Location: Evanston, IL

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 120

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 25%

Read more about Kellogg at TopMBA »

3. MIT (Sloan)

Location: Cambridge, MA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 129

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 32%

2. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 138

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 16%

Read more about Wharton at TopMBA »

1. Harvard

Location: Boston, MA

Estimated number of 2017 graduates going into tech: 148

Estimated percent of 2017 graduates going into tech: 16%

Read more about Harvard at TopMBA »

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The 25 best MBA programs for people who want to work in tech

24 (tie). University of Virginia (Darden)

24 (tie). Boston University (Questrom)

23. ESADE

22. University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)

21. NYU (Stern)

20. Dartmouth (Tuck)

19. IESE Business School

18. IE Business School

16 (tie). University of Texas (McCombs)

16 (tie). Yale

15. Duke (Fuqua)

14. Cambridge (Judge)

13. London Business School

12. UC Berkeley (Haas)

11. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

10. University of Michigan (Ross)

9. INSEAD

8. Stanford

6 (tie). University of Chicago (Booth)

6 (tie). UCLA (Anderson)

5. Columbia

4. Northwestern (Kellogg)

3. MIT (Sloan)

2. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

1. Harvard