FT Global MBA Rankings 2025: ISB Hyderabad Beats IIMs To Secure Top Spot Among Indian Institutes – News18

Last Updated:February 17, 2025, 15:23 IST

FT Global MBA Rankings 2025: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has secured the 31st rank globally followed by IIM Bangalore at 57th spot

The Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad has secured the top spot among Indian B-schools and 27th rank globally in the recently released Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Rankings 2025. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has secured the 31st rank globally followed by IIM Bangalore at 57th spot. A total of eight Indian B-Schools have been featured in the FT MBA Rankings 2025. Check the full list below:

FT Global MBA Rankings 2025: Indian Institutes

Rank 27 — ISB Hyderabad

Rank 31 — IIM Ahmedabad

Rank 57 — IIM Bangalore

Rank 61 — IIM Calcutta

Rank 69 — IIM Indore

Rank 71 — IIM Lucknow

Rank 83 — Xavier School of Management

Rank 86 — IIM Kozhikode

FT Global MBA Rankings 2025: Top 10

Overall, the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton has grabbed the top spot followed by the Columbia Business School in the United States and IESE Business School in Spain. As per the rankings, the Harvard Business School and Cornell University, Johnson have jointly secured the 13th spot, the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore has grabbed the 22nd spot, Yale School of Management secured the 24th spot, and the University of Oxford secured the 26th spot. Take a look at the top 10:

Rank 1 — University of Pennsylvania: Wharton

Rank 2 — Columbia Business School US

Rank 3 — IESE Business School Spain

Rank 4 — Insead France

Rank 4 — SDA Bocconi School of Management Italy

Rank 6 — MIT: Sloan US

Rank 7 — London Business School UK

Rank 8 — Esade Business School Spain

Rank 9 — HEC Paris France

Rank 10 — Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

A total of 125 schools participated in the ranking process for the 2025 edition. “The MBA ranking is derived from 21 criteria. Alumni responses inform eight criteria that together contribute 56 per cent of its weight. A further 12 criteria are calculated from school data, accounting for 34 per cent of the ranking (KPMG also audits several schools every year). The remaining criterion, the research rank, counts for 10 per cent,” reads the official notice.