In the Financial Times’s ninth annual ranking of global MBA programs published in January, the School leapt from its No. 4 position in 2006 to No. 2. The FT also named the School No. 2 in its ranking of the best MBA programs in the United States.
The ranking of 100 international business schools is based on 20 criteria, including the average salary of alumni, the global outlook of the School and intellectual capital, which reflects the number of faculty publications in international academic journals, among other factors. Although they rely on different methodologies and rarely correlate with one another, all the major business school rankings — those published by Business Week, Economist Intelligence Unit, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report and the Wall Street Journal — rank the School among the top 10 "best" business schools.
Earlier this year, the FT rated the School’s EMBA-Global — the pioneering dual–MBA degree program between Columbia Business School and London Business School — No. 2 in the world in its eighth annual rankings of executive MBA programs. This was the first year that EMBA-Global, which celebrated its fifth anniversary in June, was eligible to participate in the FT ranking. The School’s New York–based EMBA program remains among the top four programs in the United States — a position it has held for the last three years.