Top marks: The ranking gave the School 99.9 out of 100 for research impact
Warwick Business School’s Full-time MBA has been ranked in Europe’s top 15 by higher education analysts QS in its annual ranking.
The QS Global MBA Rankings 2025 saw the School’s Full-time MBA rated 15th in Europe and rise six places to 30th in the world out of 340 programmes assessed.
QS has also published its Business Masters Ranking with the School climbing to seventh in the world for Marketing with analysts using the School’s MSc Marketing & Strategy for its data.
And QS ranked WBS 17th in the world for MSc Business Analytics, 21st for MSc Finance programmes and rated it 22nd globally for MSc Management.
MBA programmes were ranked based on the indicators of diversity, thought leadership, employability, entrepreneurship & alumni outcomes, and return on investment, with WBS above the global average in every category.
Dawn Eubanks, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Course Director for the Full-time MBA, said: “Moving into the world’s top 30 MBAs is great news and shows the improvements and changes we have made to the School and the course are bearing fruit.
“Our Full-time MBA programme really is one of the elite courses in the world, with our world-class faculty teaching on it while producing research that is hugely influential in the world of business and organisations.
“As QS found, the return on investment is superb, with WBS scoring 92.1 out of 100 in this category, while our research impact was 99.9 out of 100.
“And if you value learning in a truly international environment with a cohort that brings views and cultures from all over the world, then WBS is the place to be as we were rated the highest score possible of 100 for international mix and were ranked 10th in the world for class and faculty diversity.”
Only courses accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA), or the European Foundation for Management Development Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) are included in the rankings – WBS is one of an elite band of schools accredited by all three.
In the Master’s in Marketing 2025 ranking, QS rated WBS second in the world for thought leadership, which measures research impact and academic reputation by surveying 49,888 academics around the world.
World-class teaching at a leading business school
The School was ranked eighth in the world for thought leadership in the Master’s in Business Analytics ranking, with research impact scoring 100 out of 100.
And for Master's in Management, WBS was 12th in the world for the diversity of its students and faculty, while its MSc Finance was ranked 22nd in the world for employability, which is based on a survey of 59,068 employers.
Andy Lockett, Dean of WBS and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, added: “These rankings once again reflect the world-class teaching and cutting-edge research produced at WBS.
“WBS is for the Change Makers – our students seek to challenge the norm and question the status quo. Our values of openness, curiosity, restlessness, and excellence mean we are continually striving to improve and push boundaries.
“It is these values that ensure we will not rest on these great ranking results but look to improve even more.”