Financial Times for MBA ranking is a section Financial Times which is an international business newspaper. It is a morning everyday newspaper which is published in London and printed in 24 cities across the world. Financial Times has a worldwide print circulation of approximately 381,658. According to FT.com, it has an average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide.
Studies show that FT.com has 3.4 million users registered all across the world. Financial Times was founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley. It competed with four different Finance-Oriented newspapers. The Financial Times is the only paper in UK which is providing full day by day reviews on the London stock exchange and world markets.
It publishes Financial Times MBA ranking every year. When we go through the past two-three year MBA ranking by financial times, it seems that it keeps on changing. The Financial Times MBA ranking for 2009 was evaluated from the data which is provided by nine thousand business school alumni which is working in 130 countries.
The top three colleges for the year 2009 were:
First: University of Pennsylvania: Wharton, U.S.A.
Second: London Business School, U.K.
Third: Harvard Business School, U.S.A.
Where as in year 2010 financial time MBA Ranking first rank was awarded to London Business School, U.K. and rest of two positions were awarded to University of Pennsylvania: Wharton and Harvard Business School respectively.
In year 2011 financial time MBA Ranking positions changed again, London Business School, U.K again secured the first position. Position second was awarded to University of Pennsylvania: Wharton, U.S.A. Third position again was secured by Harvard Business School, U.S.A.
The HKUST MBA program’s has been ranked at 6th best MBA program in the world maintaining an average of 3 year top 10 ranking. Financial Times MBA Ranking also focuses on Asian B-Schools mostly in China and India. People follow the Financial Times MBA Ranking across the world as one of the most popular definitive MBA ranking in the world.
Della Bradshoaw from Financial Times has written in her Financial Times article on January 26,2009 that “The ranking of the top 100 full-time MBA programmes is dominated by American business schools, with 56 of the 100 based in the US.
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) was ranked 11th best Business School all over the world in 2011. Financial Times MBA Ranking is one of the important part for Financial times Newspaper, which is followed by most of the people who are interested in Business School all over the world.
