Insead, the business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, has topped the Financial Times’ Global MBA rankings for the first time since they were introduced in 1999.
This is the first time that an MBA programme with a substantial Asian presence has been ranked number one by the FT, and marks a growing interest from elite students in Asian business and business schools. Insead is still the only top-ranked business school to teach its full-time MBA on multiple campuses, with 75 per cent of the 1,000 students studying in both Singapore and Fontainebleau, just outside Paris.
It is also the first time that a one-year MBA programme has been ranked in the top slot. The flagship MBA programmes of the four previous winners — Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the US, and London Business School in the UK — are all two-year degrees. Together with Insead, these schools have been ranked in the top five slots for the past three years by the FT.