France and China head leaderboard of the 2026 FT Masters in Finance pre-experience

ESCP Business School and Skema Business School (France) have kept first and second place in the 2026 FT Masters in Finance ranking, listing pre-experience programmes aimed at students with little or no professional experience, published on 15/06/2026.

Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (China) also retained its third place in this 15^th edition. The rest of the top 10 is shared by Portugal, Spain and the UK, with one school each.

With five schools ranked in the top 10, France takes the lead at the top of the ranking, but is still behind the UK in terms of the number of institutions ranked in total (13 for the UK, 12 for France).

The ranking is largely dominated by European countries and China. MIT's Sloan is the first US institution in the ranking, in 25^th place. The country is still third in the number of institutions ranked, with seven schools.

News Tank presents the general ranking of 70 institutions and a ranking of countries according to the number of institutions ranked.

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