One Year MBA Rankings - Top One Year MBA Programs

BEST ONE YEAR INTERNATIONAL MBA PROGRAMS

#1 IMD

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
5-year MBA gain: $196,300
Pre-MBA salary: $84,000
2012 salary: $211,000

Set on the shores of Lake Geneva, IMD prides itself on real-world education during its one-year intensive program. To learn about corporations, students complete consulting projects in Switzerland. To learn about entrepreneurship, they work with local startups. To study international business, students work with international companies and can spend two weeks in a foreign country.

#2 Insead

Location: Fontainebleau, France & Singapore
5-year MBA gain: $168,700
Pre-MBA salary: $71,000
2012 salary: $175,000

With campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, Insead fashions itself “the business school for the world.” Students come from every continent and the 145 faculty members hail from 35 different countries. Insead sent more 2012 graduates to McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain and Google than anyone else.

#3 SDA Bocconi

Location: Milan, Italy
5-year MBA gain: $155,800
Pre-MBA salary: $57,000
2012 salary: $165,000

The only Italian school on our list, Bocconi’s MBA program is taught in English, but students take a month of Italian as soon as they arrive. About a quarter of the school’s students are from Italy and 57% are from Europe.

#4 IE Business School

Location: Madrid, Spain
5-year MBA gain: $113,700
Pre-MBA salary: $53,000
2012 salary: $144,000

IE focuses on international business and draws students from all over the world. Just 9% of the 2014 class came from Spain. Top-hiring firms include Spanish bank Banco Santander and PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has a major office in downtown Madrid.

#5 Oxford (Said)

Location: Oxford, UK
5-year MBA gain: $103,500
Pre-MBA salary: $58,000
2012 salary: $135,000

Saïd’s MBA program emphasizes experiential learning with its entrepreneurial and consulting projects. For the last 13 years, Oxford has hosted the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford program, which brings tech executives to campus to host classes, dinners and debates.

#6 Warwick

Location: Coventry, UK
5-year MBA gain: $102,800
Pre-MBA salary: $43,000
2012 salary: $124,000

Located about two hours north of London, England, the Warwick Business School has developed strong ties to the Far East. Ninety-six percent of the 2014 class came from outside of the UK, including 69% from Asia. In 1980 a Warwick professor started the Warwick Manufacturing Group, then a research institution aimed at increasing British manufacturing. Renamed WMG, the center today works with businesses in other industries like healthcare, banking and telecommunications.

#7 Cambridge (Judge)

Location: Cambridge, UK
5-year MBA gain: $99,000
Pre-MBA salary: $62,000
2012 salary: $146,000

The famous British university that dates back to the 13th century established its business school in 1990. Located a half-hour train ride outside of London—the school sits in a burgeoning tech hub. Dubbed Silicon Fen in reference to Silicon Valley, Cambridge is now home to several electronics and biotechnology companies.

#8 Cranfield

Location: Cranfield, UK
5-year MBA gain: $94,500
Pre-MBA salary: $59,000
2012 salary: $127,000

Cranfield drew over 75% of its 2014 class from outside of the UK. Students arrive at Cranfield with a median work experience of 7 years, tied for most of any school on our list. The Cranfield curriculum is focused on two core areas: real-world learning and leadership development. All students are assigned an executive coach that helps them improve their personal leadership skills and secure a job after graduation.

#9 Lancaster

Location: Lancaster, UK
5-year MBA gain: $86,700
Pre-MBA salary: $41,000
2012 salary: $159,000

Located in northern England, Lancaster drew its entire 2013 class from outside of the UK. Seventy-three percent came from Asia and just 5% from Europe. Kevin Roberts, CEO of global advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, visits campus four times every year for a series of workshops in which he gives students access to his company’s financial statements and asks them for their suggestions for the upcoming year.

#10 City U (Cass)

Location: London, UK
5-year MBA gain: $76,800
Pre-MBA salary: $60,000
2012 salary: $116,000

Cass students arrive with a median work experience of seven years, tied for most of any school on our list. The program is split into 2 sessions. The first session ends with Consultancy Week, when students head to Poland to work on projects with real-world companies. Students spend one week in Poland and then return to England, where they have four weeks to offer recommendations to the companies’ executives.

#11 S P Jain

Location: Dubai, Sydney & Singapore
5-year MBA gain: $63,900
Pre-MBA salary: $9,000
2012 salary: $47,000

Founded in 1981 in Mumbai, India, SP Jain has built three more campuses—in Dubai, Singapore and Sydney—in just 10 years. The Mumbai school, which was inaugurated by then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is now considered a sister school to the other three campuses. Students attend the three recently constructed campuses as part of the traditional masters’ programs.

#12 HEC-Montreal

Location: Montreal, Quebec
5-year MBA gain: $31,100
Pre-MBA salary: $49,000
2012 salary: $89,000

Taking advantage of its location in one of the North America’s few bilingual cities, HEC Montreal focuses on training international business leaders. The MBA program is offered in both English and French. The school is home to the largest bilingual library in Canada. HEC Montreal has 112 partner institutions all over the world, plus campuses in India, Russia and Vietnam.

Kaynak: Forbes