Two Hong Kong varsities figure among the top 50 universities in the world offering the best MBA programmes for 2024. According to the QS Global MBA Rankings for 2024, the University of Hong Kong secured the No. 35 spot, while the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology emerged at No. 46. Stanford Graduate School of Business took the top spot in the list.
While five of the Top 10 universities are in the US, there were five other Asian institutions in the Top 50: National University of Singapore (No. 24), Tsinghua University (No. 28), Nanyang NTU University (No. 34), CEIBS (No. 38), and SMU (Lee Kong Chian) (No. 43). In addition, City University of Hong Kong made it to the 121-130 rankings.
| RANKINGS | UNIVERSITY |
| 1 | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| 2 | Penn (Wharton) |
| 3 | Harvard Business School |
| 4 | London Business School |
| 5 | HEC Paris |
| 6 | MIT (Sloan) |
| 7 | Columbia Business School |
| 8 | IE Business School |
| =9 | Cambridge (Judge) |
| =9 | IESE Business School |
This year’s rankings evaluated 315 business schools from around the world using Britain-based education information firm Quacquarelli Symonds’s proprietary metrics around employability, entrepreneurship, ROI, thought leadership, and diversity.
Earlier this year, the University of Hong Kong beat the National University of Singapore to take the No. 2 spot in the QS World University Rankings in Asia for 2024. This was the highest position HKU had reached on the list in the past four years. Three other institutions from the city also found places among the top 20 varsities for next year: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and City University of Hong Kong.
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