WashU Olin sees upswing in numerous rankings

The work of building and improving the WashU business school has been rewarded with an uptick in most of our rankings throughout the 2018 ranking season, with rare exception.

Several of the rankings saw substantial increases, including the 18-place jump in the Financial Times‘ global MBA ranking and the nine-place increase in the FT‘s business schools of the Americas ranking. We also saw a substantial increase in The Economists‘ global MBA ranking.

In a few rankings, we saw declines—a clear indication that the work goes on, or that we must keep vigilant in order to stay competitive with peer schools. The Poets & Quants undergraduate ranking, for example, included participation by more competitive schools than we saw in the ranking’s first outing two years ago.

Global Rankings

Ranking	2017	2018 (Change)
Economist Which MBA?	43	37 (+6)
Financial Times Global MBA	68	50 (+18)
Financial Times Top MBA for Women	N/A	4 (-)
Financial Times Executive MBA Shanghai	7	6 (+1)

US Rankings

Ranking	2017	2018 (Change)
Bloomberg Businessweek Domestic MBA	36	32 (+4)
Bloomberg Businessweek Global MBA	N/A	37 (-)
Financial Times US MBA-US	28	23 (+5)
Financial Times Americas All Programs	17	8 (+9)
Poets & Quants BSBA	2	3 (-1)
Princeton Review Entrepreneurship-Undergraduate	7	7 (-)
Princeton Review Entrepreneurship-Graduate	22	18 (+4)
TFE Times Master of Science in Finance	N/A	4 (-)
US News & World Report MBA	21	23 (-2)