Cranfield School of Management consistently performs well in the major school and programme specific rankings, reinforcing our position as a top global management school. Read more Read less
As an exclusively postgraduate university, Cranfield University is excluded from Times Higher Education World Rankings, The Times World Rankings, The Complete University Guide and The Guardian, which focus on helping prospective undergraduate students to compare universities.
MBA Programmes
Our excellence in management education here at Cranfield is consistently recognised in International Business Rankings.
MBA Full-time
2nd in the UK in Forbes’ ranking of The Best International MBAs: One-YearPrograms.
4th in the UK, 12th in Europe and 49th in the World in The Economist’s full-time MBA ranking 2016.
9th in the UK, 17th in Europe and 53rd in the world in the Financial Times 2017 ranking of full-time MBA programmes. 1st in the world for Economics and 9th in the world for value for money.
14th in the world and 4th in the UK in Bloomberg's Best International Business Schools ranking 2016.
13th in the world in Poets & Quants' 2016 ranking for Best International Business Schools.
6th in the UK and 99th in the world in the FT ranking of Executive MBA programmes 2016.
3rd in the UK and 31st in the world in the Which MBA? Executive MBA ranking 2015.
Management MSc
1st in the UK and 7th in the world in The Economist Which MBA? Masters in Management (MiM) 2017 ranking.
Finance and Management MSc
In the Financial Times Masters in Finance Pre-experience ranking 2017 Cranfield School of Management's Finance and Management MSc achieved the following rankings:
- 6th in the UK and 29th in the world
- 13th in the UK and 52nd in the world for careers
- 12th in the UK and 48th in the world for career progress.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc
1stoutside the US and 12th globally in the Supply Chain Management World ‘University 100’ annual survey 2016, and 2nd in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the Top 20 Supply Chain Management annual survey 2016, for providing young people in this field with the skills and mix of expertise required to develop as supply chain leaders of the future.
Executive Development
Customised Executive Development
Cranfield School of Management has been ranked consistently 1st or 2nd in the UK and Top 10 in Europe in the Financial Times Executive Education – Customised rankings over the last 5 years. In the Financial Times Executive Education - Customised - 2017 ranking the School were ranked:
- 2nd in the UK, 10th in Europe, 21st in the World
- 1st in the world for global international reach of our global programmes
- 4th in the world for the quantity and quality of the programmes we develop in collaboration with other business schools.
98% of our customers said, if they were to embark on the same programme again, they would choose Cranfield.
Open Executive Education Programmes
5th in the UK and 39th in the world in the Financial
Times Executive Education - Open - 2017 ranking.
44 of our clients have been surveyed over the last three years and 98% said, if they were to embark on the same programme again, they would choose Cranfield.
Research Degrees
The PhD Programme
The Cranfield PhD has an international reputation for quality and academic excellence. In December 2014 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) rated 84% of Cranfield's Business and Management research output as 'internationally recognised' or better for impact - 60% of this was 'world leading' (4*) and 24% 'internationally excellent' (3*).
22nd in the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014 ranking for Business and Management Studies.
Our Executive DBA is one of only a handful of DBA programmes worldwide to have been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
