The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been ranked as the best management school in India in the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Ranking 2024 released today.  Overall, the institute ranked at 31st spot this year, which is an increase from last year’s 39th spot.

Second rank in India has been achieved by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which is at the 41st rank globally, followed by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) at 47, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) at 67, and the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML) at 85, and the XLRI — Xavier School of Management at the 99th rank.

Globally, University of Pennsylvania: Wharton (USA) got the top rank, followed by France’s Insead at the second spot, Columbia Business School and Italy’s SDA Bocconi School of Management at the third spot, and Spain’s IESE Business School at the fifth spot.

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management and MIT: Sloan got the sixth rank, followed by London Business School at the 8th spot, Cornell University: Johnson at 9th and University of Chicago: Booth at 10th. Interestingly, the Ivy League Harvard Business School got placed at 11th globally.

The Financial Times MBA Rankings are recognised worldwide as a benchmark for evaluating the quality and impact of MBA programmes across the globe