IIM A’s One Year MBA Ranked No.1 MBA In World For Career Progression: Financial Times 2016 Ranking

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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.

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.

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 2016Rank in 2015School nameCountryWeighted salary (US$)Salary percen-tage increaseCareer progress rankPlacement success rankValue for money rank
14InseadFrance / Singapore16651096255910
21Harvard Business SchoolUS1725019474082
32London Business SchoolUK15415010093972
43University of Pennsylvania: WhartonUS17787784163095
54Stanford Graduate School of BusinessUS1859398732983
66Columbia Business SchoolUS16986699221792
710University of California at Berkeley: HaasUS16939593341869
89University of Chicago: BoothUS15825910739284
98MIT: SloanUS15990990114896
1013University of Cambridge: JudgeUK156323956244
1114Northwestern University: KelloggUS16292393231589
1212IE Business SchoolSpain15926610457323
1320IMDSwitzerland1574398313265
1414HKUST Business SchoolChina144303114199013
1516HEC ParisFrance134299108278726
167Iese Business SchoolSpain140185121106081
1711CeibsChina147716157295441
1817Yale School of ManagementUS152232108204980
1918New York University: SternUS1505109738998
2024University of Michigan: RossUS144961107591974
2121Duke University: FuquaUS14445594513297
2223Dartmouth College: TuckUS15665295331191
2319Esade Business SchoolSpain132119117154760
2426Indian Institute of Management, AhmedabadIndia1742749615236
2526SDA BocconiItaly122955116806932
2630CUHK Business SchoolChina124268120287434
2732University of Virginia: DardenUS14710410952673
2822University of Oxford: SaïdUK13695981245819
2933Indian School of BusinessIndia138454142305745
2940Nanyang Business SchoolSingapore119032105358538
3128Cornell University: JohnsonUS142764102661078
3231National University of Singapore Business SchoolSingapore115148121686839
3336Carnegie Mellon: TepperUS13699610874179
3425UCLA: AndersonUS1400678969788
3534Imperial College Business SchoolUK11230183457531
3550Lancaster University Management SchoolUK10663811136336
3745City University: CassUK12140282176228
3835Alliance Manchester Business SchoolUK11791896128853
3955Shanghai Jiao Tong University: AntaiChina113340168492233
4036The Lisbon MBAPortugal12358410046832
4139University of North Carolina: Kenan-FlaglerUS12824097603687
4245Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus UniversityNetherlands10799881539120
43 Renmin University of China School of BusinessChina9423316321229
4428University of Hong KongChina112518106553554
4442Georgetown University: McDonoughUS13095095654499
4638Warwick Business SchoolUK11228770484524
4740University of Texas at Austin: McCombsUS13431792762575
4755Fudan University School of ManagementChina96884170562840
4951University of Washington: FosterUS12027987833163
4955Mannheim Business SchoolGermany1096227978869
5149University of Maryland: SmithUS10998297771390
5258University of Southern California: MarshallUS128782876142101
5343Rice University: JonesUS126207100884665
5462Indiana University: KelleyUS11997010386568
5559Emory University: GoizuetaUS12793890732776
5668Macquarie Graduate School of ManagementAustralia12673658219521
5745Cranfield School of ManagementUK11660464716722
5743University of California at Irvine: MerageUS11309811092867
5966University of San Diego School of Business AdministrationUS108834119752056
6053University of Toronto: RotmanCanada96647789594100
6067University of St GallenSwitzerland11294060413418
6282Indian Institute of Management, BangaloreIndia13729484329361
6380University of Strathclyde Business SchoolUK994509118537
6463ESMT – European School of Management and TechnologyGermany1072346254821
6554Michigan State University: BroadUS1036721201011450
6675AGSM at UNSW Business SchoolAustralia10927361997049
6679Durham University Business SchoolUK9802977439914
6870Wisconsin School of BusinessUS110745111871627
6959Sungkyunkwan University GSBSouth Korea1073628031443
6990Boston College: CarrollUS11953894648071
7161Vanderbilt University: OwenUS12123195722377
7165Georgia Institute of Technology: SchellerUS1189009297346
7183University of Minnesota: CarlsonUS11440485813885
7178Boston University: QuestromUS118636100707164
7569Ohio State University: FisherUS110129100965152
7689University of Notre Dame: MendozaUS12072197794362
7652University of Cape Town GSBSouth Africa13846668261008
7890George Washington UniversityUS11229198935093
7973University College Dublin: SmurfitIreland10718573637212
80 Ipade Business SchoolMexico10584419045655
80 Brigham Young University: MarriottUS123655120678116
8072Washington University: OlinUS11413080624194
83 Incae Business SchoolCosta Rica89902145148411
84 Edhec Business SchoolFrance1067616647793
85100McGill University: DesautelsCanada8834576427870
8685University of Rochester: SimonUS109756102856686
8790Melbourne Business SchoolAustralia9535672919737
8897Western University: IveyCanada10020971823742
8986Pennsylvania State University: SmealUS105601105986348
9073Babson College: OlinUS1184588687766
9171University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUS10705297896457
9295Birmingham Business SchoolUK10334471448915
9386Queen’s University: SmithCanada9376185949235
9463University of Iowa: TippieUS1030581131002125
94 Grenoble Ecole de ManagementFrance9368080509851
96 University of Connecticut School of BusinessUS10360792576144
9681University of British Columbia: SauderCanada9041372849659
98 Leeds University Business SchoolUK8920279586517
98 University of Edinburgh Business SchoolUK99144664010130
9884University of Bath School of ManagementUK9790855377647
9897University of Pittsburgh: KatzUS97897105905558

Source: Financial Times

2 Comments

  1. 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

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