The 10 best MBA programs in the world in 2025

Earning a master’s of business administration can help unlock competitive job offers and salaries for graduates. 

The average starting salary and bonus was $121,324 for MBA grads in 2024, according to U.S. News and World Report. And getting your MBA from a top-ranked program can make you stand out even more to companies, hiring managers or investors in your own future venture.

LinkedIn just released its 2025 rankings of the top MBA programs in the world, and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University took the No. 1 spot for the second year in a row. 

The professional networking platform used exclusive data from its site to determine which MBA programs deliver the best outcomes for students across a range of factors, including job placement, promotion rates, alumni network strength, leadership potential and program diversity, including gender ratios.

Several Ivy League schools, like Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, join Stanford among the top 10 best MBA programs in the world, LinkedIn reports.

“Hiring demand is super strong from these schools,” Laura Lorenzetti, senior director and executive editor of LinkedIn News, tells CNBC Make It. “They’re really great for leadership potential and how [their graduates are] able to rise through the ranks in their careers with the ability to advance.”

Here are the 10 best MBA programs in the world in 2025 and the most common job titles their graduates obtain, according to LinkedIn, plus tuition rates from each school’s website.

Across these schools, Deloitte, Amazon and McKinsey & Company are the top employers graduates go on to work for. Graduates most commonly land in roles in professional services, financial services or manufacturing, according to LinkedIn.

MBA programs, especially those at top-ranked schools, give students the skills and resources they need to thrive in a variety of fields, Lorenzetti says, even with emerging technology like artificial intelligence constantly changing the way many of these businesses operate.

“MBA programs are fantastic at teaching professionals how to think, how to make connections, how to have empathy and build and lead teams,” she says. “Even as AI grows as a tool and a technology, those are core competencies that will continue to be important in the working world.”

Conversions from Indian Rupee, Euro and British Pound Sterling (GBP) to USD were done using OANDA conversion rates of 1 rupee to 0.01 USD; 1 Euro to 1.17 USD and 1 GBP to 1.35 USD on Sept. 12, 2025. All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar.

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