Source: Financial Times
Note: This is calculated using the salary earned by alumni today, course length, fees and other costs, including the opportunity cost of not working for the duration of the course.

FT Rank ’10 School name Country Value Employed 3months (%)
1 22 Northwestern University: Kellogg U.S.A. 100 80 ( 98)
2 99 Babson College: Olin U.S.A. 99 71 ( 96)
3 2 University of Pennsylvania: Wharton U.S.A. 98 75 ( 96)
4 36 Cornell
University: Johnson
U.S.A. 97 70 ( 95)
5 34 Carnegie
Mellon: Tepper
U.S.A. 96 81 ( 96)
6 20 Duke
University: Fuqua
U.S.A. 95 76 ( 97)
7 4 Stanford
University GSB
U.S.A. 94 85 ( 96)
8 3 Harvard
Business School
U.S.A. 93 87 ( 100)
9 57 University of
Southern California: Marshall
U.S.A. 92 82 ( 96)
10 8 MIT Sloan
School of Management
U.S.A. 91 83 ( 93)
11 9 University of
Chicago: Booth
U.S.A. 90 82 ( 99)
12 44 Rice
University: Jones
U.S.A. 89 83 ( 97)
13 6 Columbia
Business School
U.S.A. 88 77 ( 90)
14 28 University of
California at Berkeley: Haas
U.S.A. 87 81 ( 96)
15 13 Dartmouth
College: Tuck
U.S.A. 86 83 ( 99)
16 57 Vanderbilt
University: Owen
U.S.A. 85 73 ( 97)
17 28 University of
Michigan: Ross
U.S.A. 84 71 ( 91)
18 38 Georgetown
University: McDonough
U.S.A. 83 78 ( 91)
19 13 New York
University: Stern
U.S.A. 82 80 ( 95)
20 61 Tulane
University: Freeman
U.S.A. 81 83 ( 93)
21 96 SMU: Cox U.S.A. 80 75 ( 95)
22 49 Washington
University: Olin
U.S.A. 79 91 ( 89)
23 34 Emory
University: Goizueta
U.S.A. 78 72 ( 100)
24 31 University of
Virginia: Darden
U.S.A. 77 77 ( 100)
25 48 University of
Rochester: Simon
U.S.A. 76 83 ( 81)
26 61 Boston
University School of Management
U.S.A. 75 90 ( 89)
27 71 University of
Notre Dame: Mendoza
U.S.A. 74 80 ( 97)
28 16 Yale School of
Management
U.S.A. 73 85 ( 99)
29 75 University of
Minnesota: Carlson
U.S.A. 72 78 ( 68)
30 57 George
Washington University
U.S.A. 71 75 ( 91)
31 83 University of
Miami School of Business Administration
U.S.A. 70 62 ( 95)
32 80 Case Western
Reserve University: Weatherhead
U.S.A. 69 53 ( 91)
33 79 Wake Forest
University: Babcock
U.S.A. 68 81 ( 100)
34 80 University of
California: Davis
U.S.A. 67 79 ( 97)
35 11 Iese Business
School
Spain 66 86 ( 97)
36 72 University of
California at Irvine: Merage
U.S.A. 65 92 ( 99)
37 33 UCLA: Anderson U.S.A. 64 71 ( 94)
38 93 Ipade Mexico 63 89 ( 100)
39 52 University of
Texas at Austin: McCombs
U.S.A. 62 79 ( 93)
40 78 University of
Washington Business School: Foster
U.S.A. 61 77 ( 100)
41 47 Boston College:
Carroll
U.S.A. 60 82 ( 95)
42 46 University of
North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler
U.S.A. 59 69 ( 100)
43 43 University of
Maryland: Smith
U.S.A. 58 85 ( 94)
44 40 Manchester
Business School
U.K. 57 93 ( 84)
45 45 University of
Toronto: Rotman
Canada 56 83 ( 95)
46 67 Ohio State
University: Fisher
U.S.A. 55 90 ( 85)
47 57 Indiana
University: Kelley
U.S.A. 54 68 ( 96)
48 89 Arizona State
University: Carey
U.S.A. 53 78 ( 96)
49 83 University of
Arizona: Eller
U.S.A. 52 65 ( 100)
50 67 Thunderbird
School of Global Management
U.S.A. 51 61 ( 86)
51 1 London Business
School
U.K. 50 81 ( 99)
52 67 University of
South Carolina: Moore
U.S.A. 49 62 ( 92)
53 65 Michigan State
University: Broad
U.S.A. 48 74 ( 100)
54 52 University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
U.S.A. 47 81 ( 94)
55 54 Purdue
University: Krannert
U.S.A. 46 75 ( 93)
56 28 Chinese
University of Hong Kong
China 45 93 ( 95)
57 22 Ceibs China 44 75 ( 84)
58 67 Wisconsin
School of Business
U.S.A. 43 91 ( 98)
59 63 Melbourne
Business School
Australia 42 77 ( 92)
60 19 Esade Business
School
Spain 41 81 ( 100)
61 64 University of
Iowa: Tippie
U.S.A. 40 85 ( 99)
62 36 Australian
School of Business
Australia 39 81 ( 89)
63 18 HEC Paris France 38 89 ( 87)
64 94 Hult
International Business School
U.S.A. / U.K. / U.A.E. / China 37 73 ( 95)
65 77 University of
Florida: Hough
U.S.A. 36 79 ( 91)
66 54 York
University: Schulich
Canada 35 80 ( 93)
67 12 Indian School
of Business
India 34 97 ( 99)
68 82 University of
British Columbia: Sauder
Canada 33 83 ( 89)
69 49 University of
Western Ontario: Ivey
Canada 32 87 ( 95)
70 9 Hong Kong UST
Business School
China 31 91 ( 90)
71 99 Macquarie
Graduate School of Management
Australia 30 100 ( 48)
72 86 University of
Alberta
Canada 29 75 ( 100)
73 27 Nanyang
Business School
Singapore 28 81 ( 100)
74 95 McGill
University: Desautels
Canada 27 93 ( 77)
75 38 SDA Bocconi Italy 26 85 ( 90)
76 83 Brigham Young
University: Marriott
U.S.A. 25 83 ( 100)
77 97 EM Lyon
Business School
France 24 81 ( 84)
78 89 University of
Edinburgh Business School
U.K. 23 89 ( 97)
79 41 City
University: Cass
U.K. 22 93 ( 90)
80 73 Aston Business
School
U.K. 21 77 ( 91)
81 25 Rotterdam
School of Management, Erasmus University
Netherlands 20 85 ( 87)
82 54 Texas A & M
University: Mays
U.S.A. 19 89 ( 100)
83 87 University of
Bath School of Management
U.K. 18 95 ( 92)
84 32 Imperial
College Business School
U.K. 17 85 ( 87)
85 6 IE Business
School
Spain 16 89 ( 89)
86 75 Birmingham
Business School
U.K. 15 98 ( 47)
87 87 Vlerick Leuven
Gent Management School
Belgium 14 65 ( 95)
88 21 University of
Cambridge: Judge
U.K. 13 89 ( 93)
89 16 University of
Oxford: Saïd
U.K. 12 74 ( 63)
90 89 Bradford School
of Management/TiasNimbas Business School
U.K. / Netherlands / Germany 11 86 ( 81)
91 42 Warwick
Business School
U.K. 10 89 ( 90)
92 26 Cranfield
School of Management
U.K. 9 95 ( 100)
93 5 Insead France / Singapore 8 79 ( 95)
94 74 Durham Business
School
U.K. 7 90 ( 85)
95 15 IMD Switzerland 6 88 ( 100)
96 98 University
College Dublin: Smurfit
Ireland 5 96 ( 89)
97 51 University of
Strathclyde Business School
U.K. 4 91 ( 55)
98 24 Lancaster
University Management School
U.K. 3 78 ( 75)
99 89 University of
Cape Town GSB
South Africa 2 93 ( 96)
100 65 Coppead Brazil 1 11 ( 100)