QS MBA Ranking 2025: American podium led by Stanford; HEC Paris leading the most master's programmes

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The United States maintains its domination in the MBA Ranking 2025 published by QS on 25/09/2024, occupying the first three ranks with Stanford Graduate School of Business, Penn (Wharton) and Harvard Business School.

The Europeans, usually following close behind, are doubled by another American, MIT (Sloan), going up two places since 2024. Therefore, London Business School (UK) and HEC Paris (France) fall in fifth and sixth place respectively.

The top 10 comprises five American institutions and five Europeans, split between the UK, France and Spain. The first Asian institution, appearing in 25th, is NUS Business School - National University of Singapore (NUS).

The QS MBA Ranking 2025 lists 340 MBAs in total in 58 countries and territories. News Tank shows the entire ranking, as well as an analysis of the number of institutions per country and the top 10 from each Business Masters Rankings 2025: Master’s in Management, Master’s in Finance, Master’s in Business Analytics, Master’s in Marketing and Master’s in Supply Chain Management.

Quacquarelli Symonds is a higher education analyst and…

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