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At 27th position, ISB leaves IIMs behind to rank in FT’s MBA B-School Rankings 2025

FT MBA Rankings 2025: Of the total 100 B schools, 8 of them are from India. Last year, only 6 Indian business schools secured spot in the FT rankings of MBA.

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2025 Financial Times MBA Ranking: The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad is the best management college in India and 27th globally in the Financial Times (FT) rankings of MBA 2025. Of the total 100 B schools, 8 of them are from India. Last year, only 6 Indian business schools secured a spot in the FT rankings of MBA.

The rank of the ISB has improved this year as against 31 in 2024 and 39 in 2023. The three-year average rank of the Institute is 32. It stood at 4 for the alumni network.

Other institutes that secured spots are IIM-Ahmedabad at 31, IIM-Bangalore at 57, IIM-Calcutta at 61, and IIM Lucknow which ranked 71.

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Additionally, this year two new IIMs joined the list IIM-Indore at 69, Kozhikode campus which ranked 86 in MBA.

Interestingly, IIM Kozhikode’s programme in Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership has debuted in the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Rankings 2025.

In the ranking, the top spot was achieved by the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton campus followed by Columbia Business School, both of them US universities. The third spot was with IESE Business School, followed by Insead, SDA Bocconi School of Management and MIT’s Sloan campus. The famous London Business School was ranked 7.

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