FT MBA Ranking 2026: European business schools climb the ranks, China's CEIBS enters top 10

European business schools have improved their positions in the Financial Times MBA Ranking 2026, published on 16/02/2026: Insead in France is back in second place, where it was in 2023 and 2024, after falling to fourth in 2025; London Business School goes up from seventh to fourth and HEC Paris ranks sixth, up from ninth in 2025.

Asian business schools have entered the top 10 for the first time, with China's CEIBS ranking eighth, up from 12^th in 2025.

US institutions are in four of the 10 ten places, but there are some changes among the four: MIT Sloan takes first place, while the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which was ranked first in 2025, falls to third. Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management falls out of the top 10 to eleventh. Meanwhile, Haas School at UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School are ranked 9^th and 10^th respectively, up from 15^th and 13^th in 2025.

The 2026 ranking lists 100 entries in 18 countries, including 36 European business schools.

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