For its study, U.S. News ranked 1,750 universities worldwide, using a separate methodology in 43 subject areas.
The top global business and economics schools and their overall ranking:
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)
Overall rank: 1 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)
Overall rank: 2 - University of California-Berkeley
Overall rank: 4 - Stanford (Calif.) University
Overall rank: 3 - University of Chicago
Overall rank: 15 - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Overall rank: 13 - London School of Economics and Political Science
Overall rank: 230 - Columbia University (New York City)
Overall rank: 6 - New York University
Overall rank: 30 - Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Overall rank: 62 - University of Oxford (U.K.)
Overall rank: 5 - University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Overall rank: 19 - National University of Singapore
Overall rank: 29 - Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Overall rank: 24 - Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
Overall rank: 12 - Princeton (N.J.) University
Overall rank: 16 (tie) - Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)
Overall rank: 577 - Monash University (Clayton, Australia)
Overall rank: 40 - University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Overall rank: 8 - Copenhagen Business School (Frederiksberg, Denmark)
Overall rank: 729 (tie)