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FT Releases 2008 Global MBA Rankings

by Stacy Blackman Consulting

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business claimed the top spot for a fourth year in the Financial Times 2008 Global MBA rankings, released earlier this week. Rounding out the upper echelon we have the usual suspects: Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and the London Business School, which jumped from fifth to second place this year—the highest position ever for a European business school.

See the complete list of Financial Times rankings here.

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