QS MBA Rankings 2024: IIM-B Top B-School In India, Here's Global List

In the 2024 QS MBA Rankings, IIM Bangalore (IIM-B) claims the top spot among business schools in India.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. (File Photo) ( Image Source :IIM Bangalore )

According to the 2024 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Global MBA Rankings, released on October 25, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has been recognised as the top business school in India and is ranked 48th globally. Notably, IIMB is the sole Indian institution to secure a place in the global top 50 list. This was followed by IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta in second and third places among B-Schools from the country and 53rd and 59th ranks in the global list.

The Indian School of Business, with campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali, secured the 78th position in the QS rankings, making it the fourth-ranked institution in India. Following closely in the rankings are IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow, and IIM Udaipur, all falling within the 151-200 band.

Notably, the top three positions in this year's QS rankings are occupied by institutions from the United States, with Stanford Graduate School of Business at 1st place, followed by Penn (Wharton) at 2nd, and Harvard Business School at 3rd.

QS Global MBA Rankings 2024: Top 50 Global List

These are the top 50 management institutions as per the QS Global MBA Rankings 2024:

1. Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford, United States)

2. Penn (Wharton) (Philadelphia, United States)

3. Harvard Business School (Cambridge, United States)

4. London Business School (London, United Kingdom)

5. HEC Paris (Paris, France)

6. MIT (Sloan) (Cambridge, United States)

7. Columbia Business School (New York, United States)

8. IE Business School (Segovia, Spain)

9. Cambridge (Judge) (Cambridge, United Kingdom) and IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain)

10. INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France)

11. Northwestern (Kellogg) (Evanston, United States)

12. UC Berkeley (Haas) (Berkeley, United States)

13. Chicago (Booth) (Chicago, United States)

14. UCLA (Anderson) (Los Angeles, United States)

15. Yale School of Management (New Haven, United States)

16. NYU (Stern) (New York, United States)

17. Oxford (Said) (Oxford, United Kingdom)

19. Esade Business School (Barcelona, Spain)

20. Imperial College Business School (London, United Kingdom)

21. SDA Bocconi (Milan, Italy)

22. Michigan (Ross) (Ann Arbor, United States)

23. Duke (Fuqua) (Durham, United States)

24. Copenhagen Business School (Copenhagen, Denmark) andNational University of Singapore (Singapore)

26. ESCP Europe (Paris, France)

27. IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland)

28. Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)

29. ESSEC Business School (Paris, France)

30. Melbourne Business School (Melbourne, Australia)

31. UNSW (AGSM) (Sydney, Australia)

32. Erasmus (RSM) (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

33. Cornell (Johnson) (Ithaca, United States)

34. Nanyang NTU Singapore (Singapore)

35. University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

36. Warwick Business School (Coventry, United Kingdom)

37. USC (Marshall) (Los Angeles, United States)

38. CEIBS (Shanghai, China)

39. Boston (Questrom) (Boston, United States)

40. Toronto (Rotman) (Toronto, Canada)

41. Texas (McCombs) (Austin, United States)

42. Indiana (Kelley) (Bloomington, United States)

43. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) (Pittsburgh, United States)

43. SMU (Lee Kong Chian) Singapore (Singapore)

45. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

46. HKUST (Hong Kong)

46. Mannheim Business School (Mannheim, Germany)

48. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (Bangalore, India)

49. Manchester (Alliance) (Manchester, United Kingdom)

50. University of Sydney Business School (Sydney, Australia)