London Business School Ranked Best in the World in QS Masters in Finance Rankings 2018 | Top Universities

London Business School Ranked Best in the World in QS Masters in Finance Rankings 2018

By Craig OCallaghan

Updated November 27, 2017 Updated November 27, 2017

London Business School has been crowned the best institution in the world for studying a master’s degree in finance in the first edition of the QS World University Rankings: Masters in Finance Rankings.

New for 2018, this ranking has been published as part of the QS Business Masters Rankings, alongside other rankings of the world’s best management and business analytics postgraduate programs.

London Business School is one of two British institutions in the top 10, the other being the Said Business School at Oxford University which is ranked fourth. In between the two are the Sloan Graduate School of Management at MIT and HEC Paris in second and third respectively.

Universities and business schools have been ranked according to their performance in five metrics: employability, entrepreneurship & alumni outcomes, return on investment, thought leadership and diversity. More information about the methodology can be found here.

30 countries are represented in this year’s ranking, with the United States claiming the honor of being the most-represented country with a whopping 49 schools included. Trailing behind in second place is the United Kingdom with just 21.

Find a top master’s in finance degree near you by viewing the full table here, or scroll down to check out the top 10.

Top 10 Masters in Finance Programs

Rank

University/School

Program

Country

1

London Business School

Finance

United Kingdom

2

Sloan Graduate School of Management, MIT

Finance

United States

3

HEC Paris

International Finance

France

4

Said Business School, Oxford

Financial Economics

United Kingdom

5

Haas School of Business, UCB

Financial Engineering

United States

6

ESADE

Finance

Spain

7

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Financial Engineering

United States

8

ESCP Europe

Advanced Master in Finance

France

8*

Bocconi University

Finance

Italy

9

EMLyon

Finance

France

10

ESSEC

Finance

France

*Notes

This article was originally published in November 2017 .

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