Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2025: ISB, IIM Ahmedabad Lead Indian B-Schools

The Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2025 are out, with the world’s 100 best business schools. The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton grabbed the top spot followed by the Columbia Business School in the United States.

Interestingly, as many as eight Indian B-Schools secured ranks in the FT MBA Rankings 2025. The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad emerged as the top Indian B-School with a global rank of 27, followed by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad which ranked 31.

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The Top rank B-Schools in the list and their rankings:

Institute Name                                  FT MBA Ranking 2025

Indian School of Business                                   27

IIM Ahmedabad                                                    31

IIM Bangalore                                                       57

IIM Calcutta                                                          61

IIM Indore                                                            69

IIM Lucknow                                                        71

XLRI – Xavier School of Management            83

IIM Kozhikode                                                     86

A total of 125 B-Schools participated in the ranking process for the 2025 edition. Harvard Business School and Cornell University: Johnson are placed together at the 13th spot, the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore is placed in the 22nd spot, Yale School of Manageemnt is at the 24th spot and the University of Oxford: Said is in the 26th spot.

Harvard Business School’s MBA program, meantime, plunged to its lowest FT rank ever. Reportedly, a quarter of the graduating class of MBAs failed to have jobs three months after graduation, contributed to the decline.