Stanford Graduate School of Business review

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB or GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, the MSx Program (MS in Management for mid-career executives) and a Ph.D. program, along with joint degrees with other schools at Stanford including Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law and Medicine.
The school belongs to the Magnificent Seven (M7) group of elite business schools that recognize each other as peers, consisting of Chicago (Booth), Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern (Kellogg), MIT (Sloan), Stanford and Penn (Wharton).

Best MBA programs 2018

The MBA Guidebook 2018 features the world’s best full-time MBA programs. A total of 155 schools took part in the 2018 edition. All participating schools are accredited by Equis or the AACSB. The MBA Guidebook surveys alumni three years after completing their MBA. For schools to enter the ranking calculations, a minimum of 20 per cent of alumni reply to the survey is required, with at least 20 fully completed responses. About 8000 from the class of 2014 completed the survey — a response rate of 35 per cent.

Global Business Schools Ranking 2018

According to the 2018 Edition of the MBA Guidebook by the Foundation for International Business Education and US News World Report rankings of America's Best Graduate Business Schools 2018, Stanford University Graduate School of Business took the top spot out of 437 accredited business schools considered in the rankings.

The Penn State Smeal College of Business MBA program is ranked 40th best overall and 17th among public universities in the league table. It is also ranked fifth in the nation in the specialty category of Supply Chain/Logistics.

Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University is ranked 49th overall and 23rd among public universities. In addition, some Broad College subject areas were separately ranked by business school deans: Supply Chain/Logistics (2nd), International (12th), Accounting (20th).

The Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa has been named among the nation’s best Master of Business Administration programs in U.S. News’ 2018 annual list of Best Graduate Schools. The Full-Time MBA program is ranked 107th in the overall ranking of graduate business schools.

Best Business Schools 2018 (our Top 10 list):
1. Stanford University
2. Harvard University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
5. University of Chicago (Booth)
7. Dartmouth College (Tuck)
7. University of California—Berkeley (Haas)
9. Columbia University
10. New York University (Stern)
10. Yale University

Source: US News brought to you by the Foundation for International Business Education