Stanford University has climbed three places this year to become the home of the best full-time MBA program in the world. It achieved a perfect score for the entrepreneurship & alumni outcomes indicator, a metric which is particularly significant given the growing demand from students for MBA programs to incorporate entrepreneurial elements

Below Stanford, a further five of the top 10 are also based in the US, but there are plenty of success stories elsewhere that deserve attention. London Business School is the highest-ranked European institution, while France and Spain are also represented in the top 10.

David Simpson, an admissions director at London Business School, told us: “We have just welcomed our most global MBA class to date with more than 60 nationalities per class, and a network of alumni spanning more than 150 countries worldwide. The class size too has grown. We now have 485 MBAs and women make up 40 percent of the class.

“Our MBA is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our students and those of the global business economy as a whole.”

For more information about this year’s rankings, click here to read more about the methodology.

Explore the QS Global MBA Rankings 2021