MIT Sloan School of Management in the US has topped the FT’s 2026 Global MBA Ranking for the first time, beating contenders including Insead, based in France and Singapore, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
The recognition for MIT, up several places in the ranking from previous years, comes at a time of sharpening focus from students on the importance of technology, including artificial intelligence, as they prepare for disruptions in the workplace.
Richard Locke, the recently appointed dean of the Massachusetts school, says that Sloan is forging tight links with other parts of MIT, which is renowned for its engineering and science expertise, and focusing more on how AI could be used “as a tool not to replace jobs but enhance them”. He adds: “We are exploring how we reinvent management education for the 21st century.”