Best MBA and business master’s programmes revealed
Who leads the new QS Global MBA Rankings and QS Business Master's Rankings?
The QS Global MBA Rankings 2027 and QS Business Master’s Rankings 2027 are now live, revealing the world’s leading programmes across MBA, Management, Finance, Marketing, Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management.
At the top of the Global MBA Rankings, MIT (Sloan) ranks first globally, followed by Harvard, Stanford and Penn (Wharton).
The results also highlight the breadth of strength across global business education.
European institutions have a particularly strong presence across specialist master’s programmes, accounting for 154 of the 256 programmes ranked for Master’s in Management and 132 of the 285 programmes ranked for Master’s in Finance.
Europe also occupies eight of the top 10 positions in Master’s in Marketing, while Business Analytics shows a more geographically mixed picture, with leading programmes across both the US and Europe.
The MBA results reveal further differences in what institutions offer students. European schools record the highest average and median Employability scores and hold nine of the global top 10 positions for Return on Investment.
Together, the rankings offer a global view of where business education is performing most strongly, and how institutions compare across employability, ROI, academic reputation and other key indicators.
Explore the full results:
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