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Global 200 Top Business Schools in 2010

MBA in Finance

Finance remains the most popular focus sought by MBA applicants applying to business school. Jobs in finance, particularly in investment banking, have traditionally been the most popular career track for MBA graduates. Top schools such as Wharton, Chicago, NYU and London Business School have typically sent at least 60 percent of graduates to financial services and investment banking firms each year.

Global 200 Ratings by Specialisation - Finance

Finance Rank Year Node Title
1 2010 The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2 2010 London Business School
3 2010 The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
4 2010 NYU Stern School of Business
5 2010 Harvard Business School
6 2010 Columbia Business School, Columbia University
7 2010 INSEAD
8 2010 The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
9 2010 National University of Singapore Business School
10 2010 Stanford University Graduate School of Business
11 2010 SDA Bocconi School of Management
12 2010 IESE Business School, University of Navarra
13 2010 Sloan School of Management, Massachusett Institute of Technology
14 2010 Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
15 2010 Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
16 2010 HEC Paris MBA
17 2010 University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
18 2010 IE Business School
19 2010 Cass Business School
20 2010 Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
21 2010 The Australian National University, ANU College of Business and Economics
22 2010 The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
23 2010 Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
23 2010 Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
25 2010 Yale School of Management, Yale University
26 2010 Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
27 2010 Boston University
28 2010 Oxford University, Said Business School
29 2010 Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
30 2010 Western University, Richard Ivey School of Business
31 2010 University of Virginia Darden School of Business
32 2010 IMD
33 2010 Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
34 2010 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
35 2010 MBA Sciences Po - Paris
36 2010 ESADE Business School
37 2010 Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics
38 2010 Cranfield School of Management
39 2010 Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
40 2010 The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business and Economics
41 2010 Indian School of Business
42 2010 EBS Business School
43 2010 Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
44 2010 UCLA Anderson School of Management
45 2010 Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
45 2010 Asian Institute of Management
47 2010 IAE Business School, Universidad Austral
48 2010 ESSEC Business School
49 2010 Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
49 2010 University of New South Wales, AGSM MBA Programs
51 2010 China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
52 2010 Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
52 2010 Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University
54 2010 Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
55 2010 The HKUST Business School
56 2010 EMLYON Business School
56 2010 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
56 2010 S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
56 2010 School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
56 2010 Simon Fraser University
56 2010 ALBA Graduate Business School
56 2010 University of Victoria - Gustavson School of Business
63 2010 Goizueta Business School, Emory University
64 2010 Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
65 2010 Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM)
66 2010 Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
66 2010 Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
66 2010 Nottingham University Business School
69 2010 Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management
69 2010 La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University
69 2010 The University of Western Australia Business School
72 2010 Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
72 2010 Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
72 2010 Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
72 2010 Babson College
76 2010 Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington
76 2010 School of Management, University of Bath
76 2010 North West University
76 2010 Université Paris Dauphine
76 2010 Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business
76 2010 IPADE Business School
76 2010 Management School, The University of Sheffield
76 2010 Lancaster University Management School
76 2010 Corvinus University of Budapest, Corvinus School of Management
76 2010 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
76 2010 Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management
76 2010 European University (Barcelona, Geneva, Munich)
76 2010 Henley Business School
76 2010 Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong.
76 2010 University of Glasgow Business School
76 2010 TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program (NYU Stern, LSE, HEC Paris)
76 2010 ESCP Europe

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