Global education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2024 edition of the QS Executive MBA Ranking. In the current issue, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has emerged as the top business school in India, securing the 41st position globally. The QS ranking features 194 of the world’s best Executive MBA programs across 45 countries and territories.
India has six business schools featured in the ranking.The Indian School of Business (ISB) came in second place in the country. However, it slipped from its last year’s rank of 100 to the range of ‘101-110’ this year.Indian Business School Rankings
Top 10 global rank holders
India has six business schools featured in the ranking.The Indian School of Business (ISB) came in second place in the country. However, it slipped from its last year’s rank of 100 to the range of ‘101-110’ this year.
Indian Business School Rankings
| Name of the institute |
2024 ranking |
2023 ranking |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 41 | 43 |
| Indian School of Business | 101-110 | 100 |
| Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode | 171-180 | 181+ |
| Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad | 171-180 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Indore | 181+ | |
| Woxsen School of Business | 181+ |
Top 10 global rank holders
Globally, Oxford (Said) Business School has clinched the top position. IESE Business School has clinched the second place followed by HEC Paris and then MIT (Solan).
| Name of the Institute | 2024 ranking | 2023 ranking | Location |
| Oxford (Said) | 1 | 3 | United Kingdom |
| IESE Business School | 2 | 2 | Spain |
| HEC Paris | 3 | 1 | France |
| MIT (Sloan) | 4 | 4 | United States |
| London Business School | 5 | 7 | United Kingdom |
| Penn (Wharton) | 6 | 5 | United States |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 7 | 11 | United States |
| Yale School of Management | 8 | 13 | United States |
| INSEAD | 9 | 8 | France |
| IE Business School | 10 | 6 | Spain |
QS rankings follows a methodological analysis of several datasets to assess the quality of the world’s Executive MBA programmes.
