FT 2002 MBA RANKINGS

The prestigious international business newspaper "The Financial Times" has recently announced its 2002 ranking of full-time MBA programs of the world's top business schools. The ranking reflects the business schools and their MBAs in three broad areas: the career progression accrued from the MBA, diversity of experience and the school's research qualities.

Credible rankings by objective organizations help assess the reputation of a particular MBA program and appraising the value for money invested in enrolling in such a course.

The following are this year's top MBA programs; you will notice they are predominantly in the United States of America, with two in Britain and one in France, Canada and Switzerland.

1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton School of Business; USA
2. Harvard Business School; USA
3. Columbia University School of Business; USA
4. Stanford University School of Business; USA
5. University of Chicago School of Business; USA
6. Insead; France
7. MIT: Sloan; USA
8. New York University: Stern; USA
9. London Business School United Kingdom
10. Northwestern University: Kellogg; USA
11. Dartmouth College: Tuck; USA
12. Yale School of Management; USA
13. Cornell University: Johnson; USA
14. IMD Switzerland
15. University of California at Berkeley: Haas; USA
16. University of California at Los Angeles: Anderson; USA
17. University of Virginia: Darden United States; USA
18. University of Western Ontario: Ivey Canada
19. Duke University: Fuqua; USA
20. University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler; USA
21. Carnegie Mellon University; USA
22. University of Cambridge: Judge United Kingdom
23. University of Michigan Business School; USA
24. Vanderbilt University: Owen; USA
25. Georgetown University: McDonough; USA