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MBA Program Intelligence · Issue 2024–2025 Cycle

Updated quarterly · Last refresh 14 October 2024

The 2024–2025 MBA Rankings, scored on what actually matters after graduation.

A live index of 480+ accredited MBA, Executive MBA, and Online MBA programs across 34 countries — re-ranked every 90 days on a 37-factor model that puts graduate outcomes ahead of reputation surveys.

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  • 480+accredited programs
  • 37scoring factors
  • 90drefresh cycle

The current table

The Top 10, ranked by what admissions offices would rather you not see.

Each card carries our composite 37-factor score plus the four sub-scores that move the needle most: ROI, placement at 90 days, salary lift, and alumni mobility across functions and geographies.

  1. 012024–2025

    Stanford Graduate School of Business

    Stanford, CA · Full-time MBA · 2 years

    Score
    94.2
    ROI
    96
    Place
    93
    Lift
    $182k
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  2. 022024–2025

    INSEAD

    Fontainebleau / Singapore / Abu Dhabi · Full-time MBA · 1 year

    Score
    92.7
    ROI
    95
    Place
    94
    Lift
    $168k
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  3. 032024–2025

    The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, PA · Full-time MBA · 2 years

    Score
    91.9
    ROI
    94
    Place
    95
    Lift
    $176k
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  4. 042024–2025

    London Business School

    London, UK · Full-time MBA · 15–21 months

    Score
    90.4
    ROI
    92
    Place
    93
    Lift
    $154k
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Viewing positions 1–10 of 480+. Filter by format, geography, or budget band below to see where your profile lands.

Slice the rankings

Slice the rankings by what your life actually looks like: format, geography, or budget band.

The 37-factor model recalculates for every lens. Counts update with each quarterly refresh.

The dataset

What's behind the score.

The rankings are only as honest as the data underneath them. Here's the scale.

480+

Accredited programs tracked

MBA, EMBA, Online, and Deferred across 34 countries. Every program is independently accredited and re-verified each cycle.

142,000+

Verified alumni outcome records

Self-reported salary and placement data, cross-checked against LinkedIn and employer disclosures through Q4 2024.

90days

Refresh cycle, every quarter

Every score is recalculated against the latest employment report, tuition update, and admissions data we can verify.

$0

Paid placement in rankings

Rankings cannot be bought. Sponsored programs are clearly labelled "Sponsored" and suppressed from algorithmic ranking.

Methodology

How we score 480+ programs every 90 days.

Four chapters of the model. Each is independently weighted, audit-published, and reproducible from public data plus verified alumni outcomes.

Chapter 01 · Weight 28%

Return on Investment

Five-year net financial ROI after total cost of attendance, opportunity cost, and scholarship aid. We discount using each program's local currency, not a US dollar anchor. Schools that publish transparent financial outcomes score higher than those that don't.

Source: audited financial disclosures, IRS Form 990s, and verified alumni tax records where available.

Chapter 02 · Weight 26%

Placement Outcomes

Not "any job at 90 days" — function-appropriate placement. We score against the cohort's stated career goal, then weight industry, geography, and signed-offer timing. Sponsored placements and unverified LinkedIn updates are excluded.

Source: school-reported employment reports plus 142,000+ cross-checked alumni records.

Chapter 03 · Weight 24%

Salary Lift

Pre-MBA to post-MBA compensation delta at three years, with bonus and equity included. We cohort-match against applicants with comparable prior compensation and tenure so a $30k starting salary doesn't artificially flatter a smaller program.

Source: alumni self-reports verified against employer compensation disclosures.

Chapter 04 · Weight 22%

Alumni Mobility

Function changes, industry moves, and geography shifts across the five-year window after graduation. A program that reliably moves people into senior management, product, or consulting gets the mobility credit; one that returns alumni to the same role and same city does not.

Source: longitudinal LinkedIn tracking, alumni surveys, and verified employer records.

The full 37-factor model, including the remaining 11 normalization and integrity factors, is published in the methodology brief.

Read the full methodology