A league of their own

In order to compile the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2012, the FT surveys more than 20,000 alumni from the world’s leading business schools. This year 9,466 alumnni from the class of 2008 completed the survey. In addition to supplying data for the ranking, alumni were also asked to rate the teaching at their school in a selection of subjects. Their responses, which are not used in the compilation of the rankings, form the basis of the Top 10s below.

Top Ten in Accountancy

1. Brigham Young University: Marriott

2. University of Texas at Austin: McCombs

3. Boston College: Carroll

4. Texas A & M University: Mays

5. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton

6. University of Chicago: Booth

7. University of Rochester: Simon

8. Indiana University: Kelley

9. Rice University: Jones

10. Cornell University: Johnson

Top Ten in Corporate Strategy

1. Harvard Business School

2. City University: Cass

3. University of Michigan: Ross

4. Ipade

5. Dartmouth College: Tuck

6. Stanford Graduate School of Business

7. Yale School of Management

8. Northwestern University: Kellogg

9. Incae Business School

10. University of Western Ontario: Ivey

Top Ten in Corporate Social Responsibility

1. University of Notre Dame: Mendoza

2. University of California at Berkeley: Haas

3. Yale School of Management

4. University of Michigan: Ross

5. Chinese University of Hong Kong

6. Ipade

7. Esade Business School

8. Dartmouth College: Tuck

9. University of Oxford: Saïd

10. University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler

Top Ten in Economics

1. University of Chicago: Booth

2. Cranfield School of Management

3. MIT: Sloan

4. University of Rochester: Simon

5. Universität St. Gallen

6. Warwick Business School

7. Carnegie Mellon University: Tepper

8. Yale School of Management

9. University of Cape Town GSB

10. Incae Business School

Top Ten in Entrepreneurship

1. Stanford Graduate School of Business

2. Babson College: Olin

3. University of California at Berkeley: Haas

4. MIT: Sloan

5. UCLA: Anderson

6. University of Oxford: Saïd

7. IMD

8. Esade Business School

9. Insead

10. IE Business School

Top Ten in Finance

1. New York University: Stern

2. Columbia Business School

3. University of Rochester: Simon

4. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton

5. University of Chicago: Booth

6. London Business School

7. University of Iowa: Tippie

8. University of Toronto: Rotman

9. Carnegie Mellon: Tepper

10. Rice University: Jones

Top Ten in General Management

1. Harvard Business School

2. University of Virginia: Darden

3. Dartmouth College: Tuck

4. IMD

5. University of Michigan: Ross

6. Stanford Graduate School of Business

7. Northwestern University: Kellogg

8. Duke University: Fuqua

9. Iese Business School

10. University of Western Ontario: Ivey

Top Ten in Human Resources

1. Brigham Young University: Marriott

2. Michigan State University: Broad

3. City University: Cass

4. IE Business School

5. Durham Business School

6. Purdue University: Krannert

7. Vanderbilt University: Owen

8. Texas A & M University: Mays

9. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10. IMD

Top Ten in International Business

1. Thunderbird School of Global Management

2. University of South Carolina: Moore

3. Hult International Business School

4. Insead

5. Georgetown University: McDonough

6. IMD

7. University of Southern California: Marshall

8. London Business School

9. George Washington University

10. IE Business School

Top Ten in Marketing

1. Northwestern University: Kellogg

2. Indiana University: Kelley

3. Duke University: Fuqua

4. Emory University: Goizueta

5. University of Michigan: Ross

6. SMU: Cox

7. University of California at Berkeley: Haas

8. Aston Business School

9. University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler

10. Melbourne Business School

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