Best MBA Schools | Master of Business Administration Schools

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'MBA' stands for Master of Business Administration degrees. However other universities have similar programs with different names Such names include Northwestern Kellogg's MM, Carnegie Mellon's MSIA, Yale's MPPM, and Thunderbird's MIM. Below you will find links to one the top business schools around the world.

Promotes its Master of International Management (M.I.M.) as "more than a MBA". International Business once wrote that this "quirky little school in the Arizona desert is a gold mine of internationally oriented employees".

The 97-year old Bay Area business school was ranked #4 by AI. An alumni European Business Symposium will be held in Munich in September and will discuss the European economy, global business trends and other topics. The Haas Interactive Tour guides users through the school's facilities, student life and career options. The full version of the Tour is sent on CD-ROM to all MBA applicants.

An International Business Fellows certificate program is offered concurrently with the MBA by the school's Center for International Business Education and Research.

Awards a Master of Science in Industrial Adminstration (M.S.I.A.) degree, similar to an MBA. It also runs an international management institution in alliance with German MNC theBosch Group. 

It also offers an I.M.B.A., for those who wish to pursue an MBA with a greater focus on international business. Chances are pretty good that if you read its weekly Faculty News long enough you'll come across news of yet another Nobel Prize for the university's Economics department. 

They once had a neat page defining the word 'quintessential', so you be the judge whether NYC-based Columbia is "the essence of a thing in its perfect and most concentrated form". 

Special Topics on its site includes ideas from faculty members, such as a Professor McAdam's opinion on what kind of economic good is the Internet. A recent issue of Cornell Enterprise had a story about making money in East Asian stocks and another about Chinese business principles, but the link to that publication now appears to be broken. 

Oldest graduate school of management in the world. This New Hampshire university has exchange programs with the International University of Japan, London Business School, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, IESE and theHanoi School of Business. 

Named after Atlanta industrialist J.B. Fuqua, it enrolled its first class in 1970. 1,000 MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD students. 

Previews from the current issue of the Harvard Business Review and abstracts from all articles since 1994 are online. Instructors anywhere in the world can find out how to obtain HBS's case studyteaching materials.

21 month bilingual English-Spanish MBA program from the University of Navarra in Barcelona. 

December Gold Tiger winner. Every month or so the faculty of this prestigious Swiss business school contributes insight in the online Perspectives for Managers. IMD is probably best known for its benchmark World Competitiveness Report, which in 1997 placed the U.S., Singapore and Hong Kong at the top of itsscoreboard as the the globe's most competitive economies. 

February Gold Tiger winner. You might want to visit its Internet Virtual Center that aims to cover the different facets of the Internet that the manager is expected to understand, or you can order a simulation game from its R&D department. The Euro-Asia Centre of this business school offers a service that may be of interest to the serious Asianphile. It publishes twice a monthContent Pages on Asia which selects interesting articles from 400 regional periodicals including Venture Japan, the Korean Journal of International Studies, Asian M&A Reporter, Southeast Asia Business, Malaysian Business and the Singapore Economic Review. The articles aren't available online, but you can e-mail them for more info. Unlike the MBA program itself, you don't need an aced GMAT, a killer GPA, and multilingual ability to peruse this site.

The LBS is "one of the world's centres of excellence in management education and development". It has been home to well-known gurus such as Dick Brealey, David Currie, and Sumanatra Ghoshal. A group of Executive MBAs recently undertook a communications audit with 13 different companies in Johannesburg. LBS also stages a series of roadshows that travels throughout Europe, Asia and North America bringing alumni, the media and applicants up-to-date with recent developments at the school. 

Abstracts of recent issues of the Sloan Management Review are online. The school put on a China conference in May 1996. Over 35% of the MBA class and 50% of executive education participants are non-American. 

When Asia, Inc. named this Australian center the best business school in the Asia Pacific, it praised its "keen faculty interest in Asia, plus excellent facilities". It offers Master of Business Administration, Master of Management, and Master of Marketing degrees.

May Gold Tiger winner. Its Global Program for Management Development has been offered in Switzerland twice and will be offered in India and China in 1996. It also offers aGlobal MBA around the world through computer and video networking. #8 by AI. Caution: You may want to choose the text version of its inner pages. Why wait for page after page of 50k+ image maps, most of which simply have 4 or 5 menu headings that send you to the next page/image map.

Its International Business Area has twice been ranked number one by members of the Academy of International Business. It participates in the International Management Program with 25 other schools and also offers an International Business co-major.

The Kenan-Flagler school is named after a founding partner of the Standard Oil Company. "International companies rate the Executive Program the best in the world in three of six categories", according to a 1993 WSJ report". It takes part in theMBA Enterprise Corps in which students from top business schools are placed with newly-privatized companies in Eastern Europe to assist with technology and management. #

Master of Management program. Its 1995-96 International Speakers Series featured addresses from a former Austrian Minister of Finance, a Colombian ambassador and Brazilian pharmaceutical experts. Its 12Global Initiatives in Management courses each culminate in a trip to its target foreign country (e.g. Chile, South Korea, South Africa) during spring break, and students are free to propose new courses/destinations. 

It recently hosted its annual Latin America Business Conference in Philadelphia on the business environment of India and held alumni conferences in Shanghai and Paris in late spring 1997. It has 68alumni clubs in 112 countries. #

MBA has exchange program partnerships with schools in nine countries. It also claims that applications to its MBA program have quadrupled from Russia and doubled from China in recent years, although they don't say how high was the original base. 

Considering that universities were one of the first types of institutions to go online and considering they supposedly are the home of tomorrow's creative leaders, it is surprising how unimaginative are most academic sites. Rotterdam School of Management, however, which is parked in the Global MBA Elite group within the Learning section of the Worldclass Supersite, does its best at taking advantage of this medium. We found the People/Places section to be far and away the best part of its site due to its Newsletter that has several interesting articles and case studies plus a Movers and Shakers sections that is a "where are they now?" feature on alumni. The e-mails andresumes of students in this year's class are posted and insiders can gain access to the alumni database. Since half the reason you go to business school is for the contacts you make, we feel Rotterdam and other schools could become even more interactive by hosting a networking newsgroup where students past and present could communicate easily.

The main site is drab, including a stale Spring 1995 "current" issue of USC Business Magazine, but you can jump to a much better separate site maintained by USC's International Business Education and Research (IBEAR) MBA program. Past consulting projects undertaken by students in this intensive 12-month program have involved analyzing Eastern European market consumer demand for a product, recommending a entry strategy into Brazil and identifying segments of the Asian healthcare market. 

Offers the MBA and also the MS in Management, whose June 1996 grads are traveling to various countries for 18 days for a series of meetings with business leaders and government officials. Regular student-organized trips have included visits to Chile, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

Generally acknowledged to be Canada's best MBA. It claims that it is the world's second largest producer of cases, which it markets to students, other institutions and corporations. Available in the publishing section of the site are citations and abstracts from its Journal of International Business Studies. Topics covered in the 4th quarter of 1997 include a twelve-country study of European patterns of corporate ownership, how MNCs choose entry modes into China and what differences in the cultural backgrounds of partners are detrimental for international joint ventures. 

Its Master's program in Public and Private Management (MPPM) "unites the content of the most competitive traditional MBA curricula with the context essential for effective modern management".