Best executive MBA schools in Asia 2024

The National University of Singapore Business School was ranked the best business school out of 28 schools featured from APAC.

Three universities in Singapore have ranked within the top five executive MBA programmes offered in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

The recent QS Executive MBA Rankings 2024 assessed a total of 194 institutions from 45 countries based on nine indicators. It also featured a ranking of Joint programmes, offered by multiple institutions.

Within APAC, the National University of Singapore Business School was ranked the best business school for studying an executive MBA, out of 28 schools from the region that were featured in this year's ranking. In another highlight, the UCLA-NUS, Singapore also ranked third for the best Joint programmes globally.

The top 10 executive MBA programmes within APAC are as follows:

Rank	Programme	Region	Score	Global rankings
1	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore, Singapore	88.3	14
2	Nanyang Business School	Singapore, Singapore	72.2	24
=3	AGSM @ UNSW Business School	Sydney, Australia	70	=27
=3	SMU (Lee Kong Chian)	Singapore, Singapore	70	=27
5	Melbourne Business School	Melbourne, Australia	69.6	30
6	Peking University HSBC Business School	Shenzhen, China	68.7	32
7	CUHK Business School	Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR	68.4	33
=8	Fudan University	Shanghai, China	63.3	=41
=8	Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	Bangalore, India	63.3	=41
10	Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China	Beijing, Suzhou, Shanghai, China	58.7	49

To note, Chulalongkorn Business School in Bangkok, Thailand also made it into top 20 in the region, taking the 20^th spot. Not far behind, the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City, Philippines ranked 21^st.

Meanwhile, in the global ranking, the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School placed first, climbing two places up from third, with improvement in managerial experience, women in class, and salary increase. HEC Paris dropped two places to third, with significant drops in Work Experience and Managerial Experience.

The ranking of global top ten schools is as follow:

1. University of Oxford (Saïd), UK — 100
2. IESE Business School, New York & Spain — 98.3
3. HEC Paris, France — 96
4. MIT (Sloan), Cambridge (MA) & US — 94
5. London Business School, UK, Dubai & US — 92
6. Penn (Wharton), US —91.6
7. Northwestern (Kellogg), US — 90.9
8. Yale School of Management, US — 90.6
9. INSEAD, Fontainebleau, Abu Dhabi, Singapore & France — 89.8
10. IE Business School, Spain — 89.1

View the methodology for the 2025 rankings here.

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Lead image / Global QS Executive MBA Rankings 2024