Take it with a grain of salt. Focus on your goals and where you want to study ;)

[quote]Take it with a grain of salt. Focus on your goals and where you want to study&nbsp;;) [/quote]<br><br>Fully agree, I did a lot of research an AMBS ended up being my first choice. The ranking were only a factor to rule out those much lower down the list.

Huge changes in this year's ranking methodology,&nbsp; and Wharton dropped out because of alumni boycotting the survey to punish the school for a poor response to the pandemic.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Yes, not having Wharton when they were number one last year... makes this ranking look foolish.<br>Plus, IESE. number 3 --&gt; time to look at something else (but QS is even worse)... Hard times

IESE is not a surprise to me. Harvard founded IESE exactly to create an elite business school for the Spanish-speaking world, and its growing number of new campus locations (Madrid, Munich, New York, São Paulo) reflects its success.&nbsp;<br>Poets and Quants has a great discussion on how the new method impacts the changes. https://poetsandquants.com/2023/02/12/financial-times-2023-mba-ranking/&nbsp;<br><br>PS this ranking makes *Wharton* look foolish, not the FT. Schools need 20% of alumni to respond, with a minimum of 20 people. Wharton failed because its alumni abstained exactly to punish the school. That's accountability, not foolishness.&nbsp;

[quote]You mean Columbia and IESE, not Colombia and Lese. Huge changes in this year's ranking methodology,&nbsp; and Wharton dropped out because of alumni boycotting the survey to punish the school for a poor response to the pandemic.&nbsp;&nbsp; [/quote]<br><br>oops, yes, edited

There's a nice post from Brett Hunter at Inner Circle MBA about this at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brettcharleshunter_mba-mbaadmissions-ftrankings-activity-7030792681278599168-qvS7&nbsp;