World’s top 100 colleges and universities to study business and economics, 2018

Thirty-five American and fifteen British institutions have made it into the world’s top 100 colleges and universities to study business and economics in the Times Higher Education (THE) 2018 ranking.

The list is topped by Stanford University in United States.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Oxford, London Business School, and the University of Cambridge took the second, third, forth, and fifth places respectively in the global ranking.

The top ten universities to study business and economics around the world are rounded off by five more universities form United States – Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and University of California Berkeley.

The ranking takes into account subjects including business and management, accounting and finance, management and economics and econometrics.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (NO. 14) was the highest ranked university in Asia, followed by National University of Singapore (NO. 16) and Peking University (NO. 17) in China.

World’s top 100 colleges and universities to study business and economics:

1. Stanford University, United States
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
3. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
4. London Business School, United Kingdom
5. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
6. Harvard University, United States
7. University of Chicago, United States
8. Northwestern University, United States
9. University of Pennsylvania, United States
10. University of California, Berkeley, United States
11. Columbia University, United States
12. Cornell University, United States
13. New York University, United States
14. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
15. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
16. National University of Singapore
17. Peking University, China
18. University of Minnesota, United States
19. University of British Columbia, Canada
20. University of Mannheim, Germany
21. Tilburg University, Netherlands
22. University of Toronto, Canada
23. University of Warwick, United Kingdom
24. University of California, San Diego, United States
25. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
26. University of Manchester, United Kingdom
27. Bocconi University, Italy
28. LMU Munich, Germany
29. Tsinghua University, China
30. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
31. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
32. Pennsylvania State University, United States
33. University of Southern California, United States
34. Dartmouth College, United States
35. Michigan State University, United States
36. Australian National University, Australia
37. University of Texas at Austin, United States
38. Boston University, United States
39. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
40. Indiana University, United States
41. Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
42. University of Melbourne, Australia
43. University of Zurich, Switzerland
44. Arizona State University, United States
45. University of Virginia, United States
46. Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
47. University of Bonn, Germany
48. McGill University, Canada
49. University of Maryland, College Park, United States
50. University of Sussex, United Kingdom
51. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
52. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
53. Western University, Canada
54. University of Leeds, United Kingdom
55. University of New South Wales, Australia
56. Maastricht University, Netherlands
57. Boston College, United States
58. Aalto University, Finland
59. KU Leuven, Belgium
60. Lancaster University, United Kingdom
61. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
62. Fudan University, China
63. University of St Gallen, Switzerland
64. Rice University, United States
65. University of Groningen, Netherlands
66. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
67. Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, France
68. Free University of Berlin, Germany
69. Korea University, South Korea
70. Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
71. University of London, United Kingdom
72. York University, Canada
73. University of Arizona, United States
74. Monash University, Australia
75. University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
76. University of Queensland, Australia
77. University of Vienna, Austria
78. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
79. Texas A&M University, United States
80. Cranfield University, United Kingdom
81. Washington University in St Louis, United States
82. WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
83. University of Sydney, Australia
84. Technical University of Berlin, Germany
85. Aston University, United Kingdom
86. University of California, Irvine, United States
87. National Taiwan University, Taiwan
88. Temple University, United States
89. University of Lausanne, Switzerland
90. University of Surrey, United Kingdom
91. Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
92. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (tie #92)
93. Cardiff University, United Kingdom (tie #92)
94. Case Western Reserve University, United States
95. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
96. University of Bologna, Italy
97. Georgia State University, United States
98. Ghent University, Belgium
99. Georgetown University, United States
100. University of Notre Dame, United States

As per the ranking for 2018, countries with the most top-ranked universities to study business and economics are:

• United States: 30 institutions
• United Kingdom: 15 institutions
• Australia, Germany, and Netherlands: 6 institutions each
• Canada and Hong Kong: 5 institutions each
• Belgium, China, and Italy, Switzerland: 3 institutions each
• Singapore and Spain: 2 institutions each
• Austria, Denmark, France, Finland, South Korea, Taiwan: 1 institution each

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