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In this edition, three business schools from Singapore have made it to the top five.
The NUS Business School — National University of Singapore (NUS) has been ranked the top MBA programme in Asia for the second year in a row.
This makes it one of three business schools from Singapore to make it to the top five MBA programmes in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2025: Asia. In second place this year is Beijing's Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management.
The top 10 MBA programmes within Asia are as follows.
Rank |
School |
Region |
Score (out of 100) |
Global rank |
1 |
NUS Business School - National University of Singapore (NUS) |
Singapore |
84.8 |
25 |
2 |
Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management |
Beijing, China (Mainland) |
81.2 |
29 |
3 |
Nanyang Business School, Singapore |
Singapore |
73.1 |
36 |
4 |
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) |
Shanghai, China (Mainland) |
72.6 |
38 |
5 |
SMU (Lee Kong Chian) |
Singapore |
71.1 |
41 |
6 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong SAR |
71.3 |
43 |
7 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) |
Hong Kong SAR |
69.8 |
46 |
8 |
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
Bangalore, India |
67.4 |
53 |
9 |
IIM Ahmedabad |
Ahmedabad, India |
63.3 |
60 |
10 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong (Antai) |
Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, China (Mainland) |
63.1 |
63 |
This year, other highlights across the region include:
- The Thammasat Business School in Thailand made it to 19th within the region.
- The Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines was ranked 21st.
- Both Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and Putra Business School (Serdang, Malaysia) share the 23rd spot.
- The BINUS Business School in Jakarta, Indonesia was in the 30th spot.
As a whole, the top three programmes globally were all based in the US — namely the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Penn (Wharton), and Harvard Business School, all of which retained their previous year's rankings.
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