World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Business Administration

2026 edition, Business Administration. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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1 Indiana University Bloomington 1st in the world for Business Administration
2 Copenhagen Business School 2nd in the world for Business Administration
3 Harvard University 3rd in the world for Business Administration
4 University of Pennsylvania 4th in the world for Business Administration
5 Pennsylvania State University 5th in the world for Business Administration
6 Cornell University 6th in the world for Business Administration
7 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 7th in the world for Business Administration
8 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 8th in the world for Business Administration
9 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 9th in the world for Business Administration
10 Northeastern University 10th in the world for Business Administration
11 Monash University 11th in the world for Business Administration
12 Western University 12th in the world for Business Administration
13 Columbia University 13th in the world for Business Administration
14 Erasmus University Rotterdam 14th in the world for Business Administration
15 Arizona State University 15th in the world for Business Administration
16 Bocconi University 16th in the world for Business Administration
17 Tilburg University 17th in the world for Business Administration
18 City University of Hong Kong 18th in the world for Business Administration
19 University of Maryland, College Park 19th in the world for Business Administration
20 Texas A&M University 20th in the world for Business Administration
21 INSEAD 21st in the world for Business Administration
22 Northwestern University 22nd in the world for Business Administration
23 RMIT University 23rd in the world for Business Administration
24 National University of Singapore 24th in the world for Business Administration
25 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 25th in the world for Business Administration
26 University of Birmingham 26th in the world for Business Administration
27 University of Chicago 27th in the world for Business Administration
28 University of Warwick 28th in the world for Business Administration
29 Audencia Business School 29th in the world for Business Administration
30 University of Washington 30th in the world for Business Administration
31 University of Florida 31st in the world for Business Administration
32 University of Bath 32nd in the world for Business Administration
33 University of Oxford 33rd in the world for Business Administration
34 University of Leeds 34th in the world for Business Administration
35 King's College London 35th in the world for Business Administration
36 Deakin University 36th in the world for Business Administration
37 University of Georgia 37th in the world for Business Administration
38 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 38th in the world for Business Administration
39 University of Melbourne 39th in the world for Business Administration
40 Zhejiang University 40th in the world for Business Administration
=41 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 41st in the world for Business Administration
=41 Adelaide University 41st in the world for Business Administration
43 London School of Economics and Political Science 43rd in the world for Business Administration
44 Virginia Tech 44th in the world for Business Administration
45 University of Hong Kong 45th in the world for Business Administration
46 University of Groningen 46th in the world for Business Administration
47 University of Sydney 47th in the world for Business Administration
48 Durham University 48th in the world for Business Administration
49 Babson College 49th in the world for Business Administration
50 BI Norwegian Business School 50th in the world for Business Administration
=51 Nanyang Technological University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 New York University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 Peking University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Amsterdam 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Cambridge 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Manchester 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Texas at Austin 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 Curtin University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Minnesota 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Southern California 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 Vanderbilt University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Montreal 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 University of Reading 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 Macquarie University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 National Taiwan University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=51 York University 51st in the world for Business Administration
=76 Griffith University 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 Stanford University 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 University of Technology Sydney 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 Imperial College London 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 University of Queensland 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 University of British Columbia 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 University of Southampton 76th in the world for Business Administration
=76 Rice University 76th in the world for Business Administration
=101 Edith Cowan University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Korea University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Tsinghua University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University College London 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Yonsei University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Aarhus University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of New South Wales 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Toronto 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Washington University in St. Louis 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Yale University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Nanjing University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Exeter 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Sun Yat-sen University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Michigan State University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 KU Leuven 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Nottingham 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Wisconsin-Madison 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Auckland 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Turin 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Shandong University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 Shenzhen University 101st in the world for Business Administration
=101 University of Notre Dame 101st in the world for Business Administration
=151 ETH Zurich 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Sichuan University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Swinburne University of Technology 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Tongji University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Alberta 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Colorado Boulder 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Edinburgh 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Wuhan University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of California, Berkeley 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Duke University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of California, Los Angeles 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Xi'an Jiaotong University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Fudan University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Georgia Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Purdue University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Technical University of Munich 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Zurich 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Ghent University 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Western Australia 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Miami 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 University of Victoria 151st in the world for Business Administration
=151 Dartmouth College 151st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Johns Hopkins University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 McGill University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Science and Technology of China 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Sheffield 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Tianjin University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Newcastle 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Vienna 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Carnegie Mellon University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Beijing Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Oregon State University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Chinese University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Utrecht University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Politecnico di Milano 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Glasgow 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Seoul National University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Colorado State University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Nankai University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Bristol 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Queensland University of Technology 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Queen Mary University of London 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Brunel University of London 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Jilin University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Eindhoven University of Technology 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of East Anglia 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 University of Missouri 201st in the world for Business Administration
=201 George Mason University 201st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Central South University 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Harbin Institute of Technology 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 University of Southern Queensland 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Australian National University 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Dalian University of Technology 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 KAIST 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 South China University of Technology 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Chongqing University 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 University of California, Davis 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 University of Pittsburgh 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Jiangsu University 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 University of Naples Federico II 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Cranfield University 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 University of California, Irvine 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Sapienza University of Rome 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Tel Aviv University 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 University of Göttingen 301st in the world for Business Administration
=301 Jinan University 301st in the world for Business Administration