Top Best MBA College in Word 2023

 1. The Wharton School

The 20-month Wharton (including a recommended 3.5-month summer internship) full-time MBA usually includes a requirement for a major concentration of 4.0 credits, with a choice from 19 majors, plus 5.5 electives in addition to the core curriculum. Offered at the Philadelphia campus, a semester of study at the San Francisco campus is available by application. Also include are a global consulting practicum, a global immersion program, and global modular courses, with other study abroad options available. 

Countries recently visited as the focus of cross-cultural MBA study included the ASEAN nations (Brunei, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), China, and India, with countries such as Cuba, Japan, Kenya, Israel, Brazil, South Africa, UK, Spain, and Haiti visited in previous global trek and global modular courses.In addition to a choice of over 19 majors and 200 electives, Wharton offers a very wide range of dual-degree options. 

These include an MBA/JD, an MBA/MD, an MBA/M Arch (Architecture), an MBA/MS Veterinary Medicine, an MBA/MSW (Social Work), an MBA/MSE Electrical Engineering, an MBA/DMD Dental Medicine, and an MBA/MPP (Public Policy). Wharton has also recently launched a new dual-degree option – the first-ever joint degree in international management. 

The MBA/MA Lauder Joint-Degree in International Studies (Intl Studies) is offered in partnership with UPenn’s Lauder Institute’s School of Arts & Sciences to a small, tight-knit group of students who are passionate about global management issues. The course includes advanced language study and an international course sequence in the humanities and social sciences. Other partner institutions where the MBA/MA Intl Studies can be taken include Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Wharton has a large entering class, with 863 recently enrolled, and an average 18% acceptance rate. The student body in the class of 2019 is 44% female, 33% international, from over 65 countries around the world, and 33% US minority/multi-ethnic (e.g. from various indigenous Native American, Hawaiian, Asian-American, African-American, and Hispanic American backgrounds) students. Post-graduation, 95% of students are employed within three months, mostly in consulting and finance roles. 

Current median salary is US$125,000 – one of the world’s highest. McKinsey is a main employer of Wharton MBA graduates, along with Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, Bain, Deloitte, and Amazon.

 

2. Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford University is a prestigious private research university in California, currently overtaking its Ivy League rivals in the selectivity stakes. Its Graduate School of Business (GSB), founded in 1925, is the US’s toughest to get into, with only a 7.1% acceptance rate. Stanford GSB’s distinguished faculty includes three Nobel Prize winners, two John Bates Clark Award winners and 15 members of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. 

The campus is in the town of Stanford, outside Palo Alto, between San Jose and San Francisco – the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. Along with the main university, Stanford GSB maintains very close links with firms in the Silicon Valley region. Stanford GSB offers a two-year, full-time MBA, as well as a large range of dual-degree MBA programs. 

These include MBA/JD, MBA/MA International Studies, MBA/MD, MBA/Master of Public Policy (MPP), MBA/MS Computer Science, and an MBA/MSE Electrical Engineering. During the first year of the two-year MBA program, students follow a core general management curriculum, including: ethics in management, financial accounting, leadership labs, managerial skills labs, managing groups and teams, optimization and simulation modeling, organizational behavior, strategic leadership, corporate finance, data analysis and decision-making, finance, human resource management, information management, macroeconomics, managerial accounting, marketing, microeconomics, operations, and strategy beyond markets. Second-year students have the option to customize their program with courses at other Stanford schools, electives, seminars, or a joint or dual degree. Electives include courses within accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, managerial economics, marketing, political economics and strategic management. Participating in a Global Experience program is a required component of the Stanford MBA. 

They’re offered in a variety of forms. These include the Global Management Immersion Experience (GMIX), which involves spending four weeks abroad in the summer working on sponsor-led projects in a range of industries (e.g. consumer products to media to international development), and can be personalized to fit specific interests. There are also faculty-led global seminars abroad that focus on key subjects in relevant locations – for example, exploring economic mobility in Brazil. 

Additional Global Experience options include: small-group (20-30 students plus faculty) global study trips that critically examine challenging issues; self-directed experiences (e.g. via an internship abroad or independent study course supervised by Stanford faculty); and the Stanford-Tsinghua Exchange Program (STEP) – a program where students collaborate on a project alongside their counterparts from China’s Tsinghua University.

 3. London Business School

How Will Covid-19 Affect My Application? Due to COVID-19, LBS has suspended all non-essential school community events, and the policy will be re-evaluated at the end of April. Many recruitment and on-campus events will be held online, you can check their events page to find out more. LBS is accepting applications to programs without a GMAT/GRE score if you are unable to take a test in your location. The business school is being updated by GMAC and ETS, the providers of the GMAT/GRE test, regarding test center availability. 

This information was accurate as of 08 April 2020 – to see the latest advice from LBS please visit their  Coronavirus FAQ’sLondon Business School's vision is to have a profound impact on the way the world does business. The School is consistently ranked among the best in the world for its full-time MBA programme. In research, the School is ranked top ten and holds the highest average research score of any UK academic institution.    

The School's faculty, from over 30 countries, is grouped into seven subject areas – Accounting; Economics; Finance; Management Science and Operations; Marketing; Organisational Behaviour; and Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Additionally it has six research centres: AQR Asset Management Institute, Centre for Corporate Governance, Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leadership Institute, Private Equity at LBS, and Wheeler Institute for Business and Development.    Studying at the School provides access to an unmatched diversity of thought. 

With a presence in four international cities – London, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai – the School is well positioned to equip students with the capabilities needed to operate in today’s business environment. Students further benefit from our 45,000 alumni from more than 130 countries, who provide a wealth of knowledge, business experience and worldwide networking opportunities.

 

4. Haas School of Business

Haas School of Business, the business school at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), is the second-oldest business school in the United States. It offers a full-time, two-year MBA program, the Berkeley MBA, in addition to two concurrent (dual-degree) options, an MBA/JD (law) and an MBA/MPA (health management), as well as MBA exchanges with Columbia Business School in New York The Berkeley MBA program is about leadership, fresh thinking, and an incredibly talented, diverse, collaborative community. By leveraging the energy that's ever-present in the Berkeley-Haas culture and in the business ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay Area, the program teaches students how to seize opportunities, challenge conventional wisdom, and act creatively. The Berkeley MBA program is anchored in a rigorous general-management curriculum, which provides a breadth and depth of theoretical and practical knowledge to prepare students to be leaders in any type of organization in any part of the world. 

The core curriculum provides a solid foundation in business fundamentals – including marketing, finance, accounting, and operations – with options for students to customize the program through elective courses in the second year, with active-learning options for internships and international study in the summer. Core and elective courses are taught with a global focus, with additional opportunities for immersive, experiential global learning through an International Business Development (IBD) program, where half the students are sent to various countries for consulting projects with clients ranging from large multinationals to the non-profit sector. Through Berkeley’s membership of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), students can study abroad during global network weeks or take global network courses at other GNAM member schools to explore developments in emerging markets. 

Other opportunities to study abroad are available through exchange programs via partnerships with HKUST in Hong Kong, IESE in Barcelona, HEC in France, and the London Business School in the UK. There are also student-organized global business treks to Europe, Latin America, and Asia.Classes are diverse, with 44% international students, 43% women, and 25% US multi-ethnic minorities. Students have a median average of five years’ work experience, and come from a wide range of industries, predominantly in the technology/telecoms (38.8%) and consulting (19.1%) sectors, as well as financial services (12%), CPG/retail (11.5%), health/biotech/pharma (6.6%), and energy (4.4%).Post-graduation, of those students in the 2016 class who reported financial information, the average (median base) salary was US$122,488, with a mean sign-on bonus of US$24,777. Top jobs by function included business development/strategy, consulting and corporate social responsibility. Top employers included Microsoft, Levi Strauss Company, Facebook and Goldman Sachs. 

5. IE Business School

COVID-19 Information: https://www.ie.edu/updates/covid-19-applicants-faqs/Don’t miss out on a new and exclusive online management programme offered by IE, Imperial, and ESMT coming this Fall. Learn more about the 12-week Master’s in Management Essentials Programme now! Recognized as one of the leading higher education institutions in the world, IE Business School runs some of the world’s most groundbreaking MBAs and Executive MBAs, consistently placed at the top of industry recognized rankings (Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Financial Times, The Economist).Although IE’s MBAs differ according to class profile, they are united in IE’s commitment to shape leaders who drive innovation and change in organizations, providing a learning environment where technologies and diversity play a key role in fostering global vision, an entrepreneurial mindset and a humanistic approach.

As it was established in 1973 by entrepreneurs, the School have striven to promote an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the last 40 years, boosting intrapreneurship, and supporting studentsand graduates in the creation and development of start-ups worldwide.Whether Full-Time or Blended, IE Business School MBA’s and Executive MBA’s are a world-class journey and an intense life-changing experience. Want to know more? Request