What’s the best MBA program in the world: where prospective students most want to go? Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business tops a new list of the 25 best business schools where students most want to go, according to a survey released this month by Ready4. In the 2016 rankings, business school at Harvard has the most sought-after MBA program in the world, followed by Stanford business school, in 2nd place, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), in 3rd place; MIT Sloan School of Management, in 4th place; and Indian School of Business, in 5th place — rounds out the top five.
It surveyed over 250,000 prospective master of business administration (MBA) students from 195 countries and asked them to name the top 25 business schools they’d like to attend. In CEOWORLD magazine’s most recent ranking of top business schools, Harvard Business School (HBS) also came out on top.
Below, the top 25 most desired business schools around the world in 2016: