The Financial Times has published its annual ranking of the world’s top business schools.<\/p>\n
FT’s Global MBA index for 2019<\/a><\/strong> received submissions from 150 business schools around the world, which was then narrowed to a list of the top 100 schools.<\/p>\n It places a particular focus on pre- and post-MBA salaries as a measure of the course’s worth – though the publication has indicated that it will take its methodology back to the drawing board to have a more relevant assessment in the coming years.<\/p>\n The reason for the change, the group said, was because the rankings were launched in 1990 in a pre-internet world, that largely catered for the privileged few. Over the last three decades, the world has changed, and further business learning has opened up to a much wider audience.<\/p>\n The upper ranks of the list is still dominated by long-established business schools, led by\u00a0US and European institutions. The top three this year are Stanford, Harvard and Insead \u2014 but the business beyond the traditional big brands has been transformed, the publication said.<\/p>\n Looking at salary increases of graduates from all top 100 schools, the value of an MBA is evident in the large jumps alumni see.<\/p>\n The smallest increase recorded is 63% (ESMT Berlin), where the average post-MBA salary is still in six figures ($110,082 – or R1.5 million p.a.) – but salaries can almost triple (195% increase) in places like China and India.<\/p>\n The top-ranked university, Standford’s Graduate School of Business, has the highest average post-MBA salary ($228,074 – or R3.1 million), which is 129% higher than before the course.<\/p>\n These are the top 15 business schools in the world, according to the FT, including the salaries they can expect to earn, and the percentage increase in salary they could see.<\/p>\n