IIM Ahmedabad’s MBA (One Year Full Time Post Graduate Programme for Executives – PGPX) has been ranked the No.1 Full Time MBA in the world on the parameter of career progression and No.24 overall in the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Ranking 2016. Last year PGPX was ranked No.2 for career progression.

IIM A’s One Year MBA rises two slots this year from 26 to 24 in the widely respected Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2016 and is ranked numero uno for career progression.

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Career progression is defined by FT as the change in the level of seniority and size of company alumni are working in now, versus before their MBA.

ISB’s One Year MBA (PGP) is ranked 29, a rise of 4 slots from 33 last year.

IIM B’s One Year MBA (Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management – EPGP) is ranked 62 – a rise of 20 slots from the 82 rank the school bagged last year.

FT says, “Created just a decade ago, the one-year, full-time residential PGPX programme from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad is ranked number one for the career progress of its alumni this year…(IIM A is) widely regarded as the top business school in India, a reputation earned for its two-year pre-experience PGP programme, and ranked 15th in the world in the FT’s 2015 Masters in Management rankings.”

The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking ranks the top full-time (one-year and two-year MBA) programmes.

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In keeping with international norms for an MBA course, only post-experience programmes make the cut in the ranking. While Indian B-Schools insist that their pre-experience programmes (two-year PGP/ PGDM) are ‘MBAs’, these are ranked by FT in a different ranking of Masters in Management (MIM/ MBM) courses which are meant for freshers and recent graduates.

It is perhaps worth noting here that One Year MBA programmes are the only programmes from India to have bagged global MBA accreditation from Association of MBAs (AMBA) – two-year PGP programmes are accredited as MBMs by AMBA. (Read: B-Schools are Businesses too!)

It is also worth adding here that this ranking does not certify IIM A as the best B-School in the world – though this may well be the headline you read tomorrow in national newspapers.

Last year, when the FT 2015 rankings were published, the majority of newspapers in India wrongly reported that IIM A has been ranked numero uno. That’s not the case – FT brings out a separate B-School ranking every year. This ranking is only for the MBA (PGPX) programme of IIM A.

No other MBA prgramme from India makes it to the ranking this year.

Incidentally the top slot in the ranking is also taken by a one-year full time MBA – INSEAD’s MBA is ranked No.1 overall this year.

Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2016

Rank in 2016	Rank in 2015	School name	Country	Weighted salary (US$)	Salary percen-tage increase	Career progress rank	Placement success rank	Value for money rank
1	4	Insead	France / Singapore	166510	96	25	59	10
2	1	Harvard Business School	US	172501	94	7	40	82
3	2	London Business School	UK	154150	100	9	39	72
4	3	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	177877	84	16	30	95
5	4	Stanford Graduate School of Business	US	185939	87	3	29	83
6	6	Columbia Business School	US	169866	99	22	17	92
7	10	University of California at Berkeley: Haas	US	169395	93	34	18	69
8	9	University of Chicago: Booth	US	158259	107	39	2	84
9	8	MIT: Sloan	US	159909	90	11	48	96
10	13	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	156323	95	6	24	4
11	14	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	162923	93	23	15	89
12	12	IE Business School	Spain	159266	104	5	73	23
13	20	IMD	Switzerland	157439	83	13	26	5
14	14	HKUST Business School	China	144303	114	19	90	13
15	16	HEC Paris	France	134299	108	27	87	26
16	7	Iese Business School	Spain	140185	121	10	60	81
17	11	Ceibs	China	147716	157	29	54	41
18	17	Yale School of Management	US	152232	108	20	49	80
19	18	New York University: Stern	US	150510	97	38	9	98
20	24	University of Michigan: Ross	US	144961	107	59	19	74
21	21	Duke University: Fuqua	US	144455	94	51	32	97
22	23	Dartmouth College: Tuck	US	156652	95	33	11	91
23	19	Esade Business School	Spain	132119	117	15	47	60
24	26	Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad	India	174274	96	1	52	36
25	26	SDA Bocconi	Italy	122955	116	80	69	32
26	30	CUHK Business School	China	124268	120	28	74	34
27	32	University of Virginia: Darden	US	147104	109	52	6	73
28	22	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	136959	81	24	58	19
29	33	Indian School of Business	India	138454	142	30	57	45
29	40	Nanyang Business School	Singapore	119032	105	35	85	38
31	28	Cornell University: Johnson	US	142764	102	66	10	78
32	31	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	115148	121	68	68	39
33	36	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	US	136996	108	74	1	79
34	25	UCLA: Anderson	US	140067	89	69	7	88
35	34	Imperial College Business School	UK	112301	83	45	75	31
35	50	Lancaster University Management School	UK	106638	111	36	33	6
37	45	City University: Cass	UK	121402	82	17	62	28
38	35	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	117918	96	12	88	53
39	55	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	113340	168	49	22	33
40	36	The Lisbon MBA	Portugal	123584	100	46	83	2
41	39	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	US	128240	97	60	36	87
42	45	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	107998	81	53	91	20
43		Renmin University of China School of Business	China	94233	163	2	12	29
44	28	University of Hong Kong	China	112518	106	55	35	54
44	42	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	130950	95	65	44	99
46	38	Warwick Business School	UK	112287	70	48	45	24
47	40	University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	US	134317	92	76	25	75
47	55	Fudan University School of Management	China	96884	170	56	28	40
49	51	University of Washington: Foster	US	120279	87	83	31	63
49	55	Mannheim Business School	Germany	109622	79	78	86	9
51	49	University of Maryland: Smith	US	109982	97	77	13	90
52	58	University of Southern California: Marshall	US	128782	87	61	42	101
53	43	Rice University: Jones	US	126207	100	88	46	65
54	62	Indiana University: Kelley	US	119970	103	86	5	68
55	59	Emory University: Goizueta	US	127938	90	73	27	76
56	68	Macquarie Graduate School of Management	Australia	126736	58	21	95	21
57	45	Cranfield School of Management	UK	116604	64	71	67	22
57	43	University of California at Irvine: Merage	US	113098	110	92	8	67
59	66	University of San Diego School of Business Administration	US	108834	119	75	20	56
60	53	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	96647	78	95	94	100
60	67	University of St Gallen	Switzerland	112940	60	41	34	18
62	82	Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore	India	137294	84	32	93	61
63	80	University of Strathclyde Business School	UK	99450	91	18	53	7
64	63	ESMT – European School of Management and Technology	Germany	107234	62	54	82	1
65	54	Michigan State University: Broad	US	103672	120	101	14	50
66	75	AGSM at UNSW Business School	Australia	109273	61	99	70	49
66	79	Durham University Business School	UK	98029	77	43	99	14
68	70	Wisconsin School of Business	US	110745	111	87	16	27
69	59	Sungkyunkwan University GSB	South Korea	107362	80	31	4	43
69	90	Boston College: Carroll	US	119538	94	64	80	71
71	61	Vanderbilt University: Owen	US	121231	95	72	23	77
71	65	Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller	US	118900	92	97	3	46
71	83	University of Minnesota: Carlson	US	114404	85	81	38	85
71	78	Boston University: Questrom	US	118636	100	70	71	64
75	69	Ohio State University: Fisher	US	110129	100	96	51	52
76	89	University of Notre Dame: Mendoza	US	120721	97	79	43	62
76	52	University of Cape Town GSB	South Africa	138466	68	26	100	8
78	90	George Washington University	US	112291	98	93	50	93
79	73	University College Dublin: Smurfit	Ireland	107185	73	63	72	12
80		Ipade Business School	Mexico	105844	190	4	56	55
80		Brigham Young University: Marriott	US	123655	120	67	81	16
80	72	Washington University: Olin	US	114130	80	62	41	94
83		Incae Business School	Costa Rica	89902	145	14	84	11
84		Edhec Business School	France	106761	66	47	79	3
85	100	McGill University: Desautels	Canada	88345	76	42	78	70
86	85	University of Rochester: Simon	US	109756	102	85	66	86
87	90	Melbourne Business School	Australia	95356	72	91	97	37
88	97	Western University: Ivey	Canada	100209	71	82	37	42
89	86	Pennsylvania State University: Smeal	US	105601	105	98	63	48
90	73	Babson College: Olin	US	118458	86	8	77	66
91	71	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US	107052	97	89	64	57
92	95	Birmingham Business School	UK	103344	71	44	89	15
93	86	Queen’s University: Smith	Canada	93761	85	94	92	35
94	63	University of Iowa: Tippie	US	103058	113	100	21	25
94		Grenoble Ecole de Management	France	93680	80	50	98	51
96		University of Connecticut School of Business	US	103607	92	57	61	44
96	81	University of British Columbia: Sauder	Canada	90413	72	84	96	59
98		Leeds University Business School	UK	89202	79	58	65	17
98		University of Edinburgh Business School	UK	99144	66	40	101	30
98	84	University of Bath School of Management	UK	97908	55	37	76	47
98	97	University of Pittsburgh: Katz	US	97897	105	90	55	58

Source: Financial Times

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2 Comments

Vikram on January 25, 2016 3:37 pm
The article incorrectly states that “no other MBA makes it to the ranking this year”
Isb is at 34 and iimb had moved 20 slots up at rank 62
- admin on January 25, 2016 3:42 pm
  Hello Vikram, IIM’s and ISB’s ranking is mentioned at the outset in the 3rd and 4th para! 🙂

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