FT MBA Rankings 2025: Indian School of Business emerges as top B-School in India, IIM Ahmedabad follows; check list here

FT MBA Rankings 2025: Indian School of Business (ISB) has emerged as the top Indian B-School followed by IIM Ahmedabad. Check the full list here.

Updated on: Feb 18, 2025, 07:58:04 IST

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The Financial Times global MBA Rankings 2025 are out, featuring the world's 100 best business schools. In the latest edition, the University of Pennsylvania: Wharton grabbed the top spot followed by the Columbia Business School in the United States.

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has ranked 27th in the Financial Times MBA Rankings 2025. (File image)

Interestingly, as many as eight Indian B-Schools have also made their mark in the FT MBA Rankings 2025. Among them, the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad emerged as top Indian B-School with a global rank of 27, followed by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad which ranked 31st.

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Following are the eight Indian B-Schools to feature in the list and their rankings:

INSTITUTE NAME	FT MBA RANKING 2025
Indian School of Business	27
IIM Ahmedabad	31
IIM Bangalore	57
IIM Calcutta	61
IIM Indore	69
IIM Lucknow	71
XLRI - Xavier School of Management	83
IIM Kozhikode	86

It may be mentioned here that as per Financial Times, a total of 125 schools had participated in the ranking process for the 2025 edition.

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Notably, if we look at the rankings of renowned global universities, then the Harvard Business School and Cornell University: Johnson are placed together at the 13th spot, the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore is placed in the 22nd spot, Yale School of Management is at the 24th spot and the University of Oxford: Saïd is in the 26th spot.

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To check the list of top 100 global B-schools and their rankings, click on this direct link.

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