Global Business School Rankings 2026
TOP 100 BUSINESS SCHOOLS
Published 1st March 2026
100 Institutes in this ranking
An exercise in ranking the best higher education institutes in the world is no mean task. Information gathering in itself is an exhaustive exercise, while number-crunching and analysing gives meaning to the massive raw data. The aim of the Youth Incorporated and Times Of India Global University Ranking 2026 through this sophisticated exercise is to identify and ascertain the universities in the world that are fulfilling their commitment to providing quality education.
| Rank | Institute | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford University | USA |
| 2 | Harvard University | USA |
| 3 | INSEAD | France |
| 4 | IE University | Spain |
| 5 | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| 6 | MIT | USA |
| 7 | London Business School | UK |
| 8 | Columbia University | USA |
| 9 | HEC Paris | France |
| 10 | Dartmouth College | USA |
| 11 | Cornell University | USA |
| 12 | New York University | USA |
| 13 | IIM Ahmedabad | India |
| 14 | IESE | Spain |
| 15 | IIM Calcutta | India |
| 16 | University of Chicago | USA |
| 17 | University of California at Berkeley | USA |
| 18 | IMD | Switzerland |
| 19 | National University Singapore | Singapore |
| 20 | ESADE | Spain |
| 21 | Yale University | USA |
| 22 | Imperial College | UK |
| 23 | Duke University | USA |
| 24 | Cambridge University | UK |
| 25 | Oxford University | UK |
| 26 | Northwestern University | USA |
| 27 | University of Southern California | USA |
| 28 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| 29 | Georgetown University | USA |
| 30 | Indian School of Business | India |
| 31 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 32 | University of Hong Kong | China |
| 33 | Emory University | USA |
| 34 | Rice University | USA |
| 35 | University of California at Los Angeles | USA |
| 36 | McGill University | Canada |
| 37 | Hong Kong UST | China |
| 38 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 39 | Nanyang Technological Institute | Singapore |
| 40 | Rotterdam School of Management | Netherlands |
| 41 | Peking University | China |
| 42 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 43 | City University London | UK |
| 44 | York University | Canada |
| 45 | SDA Bocconi | Italy |
| 46 | University of Virginia | USA |
| 47 | University of Manchester | UK |
| 48 | CEIBS | China |
| 49 | Boston University | USA |
| 50 | Purdue University | USA |
| 51 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor | USA |
| 52 | University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| 53 | Mannheim Business School | Germany |
| 54 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | USA |
| 55 | Indiana University (Kelley) | USA |
| 56 | Australian Graduate School of Management | Australia |
| 57 | Washington University (Olin) | USA |
| 58 | Western University | Canada |
| 59 | SP Jain Institute of Management | India |
| 60 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | USA |
| 61 | University of St.Gallen | Switzerland |
| 62 | Copenhagen Business School | Denmark |
| 63 | Macquarie Graduate School of Management | Australia |
| 64 | Incae Business School | Costa Rica |
| 65 | Babson College | USA |
| 66 | Coppead | Brazil |
| 67 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 68 | Southern Methodist University | USA |
| 69 | Fundação Getulio Vargas | Brazil |
| 70 | Universidad de Chile | Chile |
| 71 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 72 | University of Rochester (Simon) | USA |
| 73 | University of Edinburgh | UK |
| 74 | Ohio State University (Fisher) | USA |
| 75 | Cranfield University | UK |
| 76 | IPADE | Mexico |
| 77 | Queens University | Canada |
| 78 | Vlerick Business School | Belgium |
| 79 | MIP Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
| 80 | University of Miami | USA |
| 81 | Penn State University | USA |
| 82 | University of Washington (Foster) | USA |
| 83 | ESIC Spain | Spain |
| 84 | University of Warwick | UK |
| 85 | Texas A & M University (Mays) | USA |
| 86 | Michigan State University (Broad) | USA |
| 87 | Bond University | Australia |
| 88 | Boston College | USA |
| 89 | University of South Carolina | USA |
| 90 | Wake Forest University | USA |
| 91 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 92 | Brigham Young University | USA |
| 93 | Hofstra University | USA |
| 94 | University of California Irvine | USA |
| 95 | Lancaster University | UK |
| 96 | Monash University | Australia |
| 97 | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | Chile |
| 98 | American University in Cairo | Egypt |
| 99 | University of Pittsburg | USA |
| 100 | Queensland Institute of Tech | Australia |