| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 2 | Harvard University | United States | 96.9 | 100.0 | 89.3 | 96.4 | 97.0 |
| 2 | 1 | London Business School | United Kingdom | 100.0 | 93.0 | 86.5 | 84.8 | 95.0 |
| 3 | 3 | INSEAD (France) | France | 97.2 | 92.3 | 94.3 | 85.7 | 94.3 |
| 4 | 4 | Stanford University | United States | 92.7 | 92.5 | 90.1 | 95.3 | 92.6 |
| 5 | 5 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 95.9 | 83.3 | 91.8 | 99.5 | 92.1 |
| 6 | 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 92.2 | 94.2 | 85.8 | 90.3 | 92.0 |
| 7 | 13= | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 88.1 | 99.7 | 83.1 | 94.1 | 91.7 |
| 8 | 8 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 86.8 | 99.7 | 87.3 | 94.7 | 91.5 |
| 9 | 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 91.6 | 91.9 | 84.4 | 88.8 | 90.7 |
| 10 | 7 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Italy | 87.5 | 89.3 | 86.8 | 93.5 | 88.6 |
| 11 | 12 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 88.2 | 86.1 | 90.5 | 94.1 | 88.4 |
| 12 | 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 86.8 | 91.9 | 79.3 | 88.1 | 87.7 |
| 13 | 10 | Copenhagen Business School | Denmark | 89.8 | 81.5 | 85.0 | 94.7 | 87.3 |
| 14 | 13= | HEC Paris | France | 86.6 | 86.5 | 91.4 | 79.0 | 86.3 |
| 15 | 15 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 81.1 | 90.8 | 83.5 | 90.3 | 85.2 |
| 16 | 26= | Yale University | United States | 82.0 | 87.4 | 89.1 | 84.8 | 84.6 |
| 17 | 22 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 83.1 | 85.4 | 88.3 | 84.8 | 84.5 |
| 18 | 18 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong | 84.4 | 84.8 | 88.4 | 79.0 | 84.4 |
| 19= | 19= | New York University (NYU) | United States | 84.2 | 80.1 | 88.2 | 91.6 | 84.1 |
| 19= | 16 | University of Chicago | United States | 84.9 | 80.1 | 90.1 | 86.5 | 84.1 |
| 21 | 17 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 85.2 | 78.6 | 85.5 | 92.3 | 84.0 |
| 22= | 21 | Columbia University | United States | 83.0 | 84.1 | 83.1 | 88.8 | 83.9 |
| 22= | 25 | Northwestern University | United States | 87.5 | 74.0 | 89.8 | 89.5 | 83.9 |
| 24 | 19= | The University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 80.3 | 87.7 | 80.4 | 90.9 | 83.6 |
| 25 | 26= | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 82.0 | 76.8 | 85.6 | 98.5 | 82.5 |
| 26 | 24 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 77.6 | 88.1 | 84.1 | 87.3 | 82.4 |
| 27 | 23 | University of Michigan | United States | 81.0 | 75.0 | 89.4 | 100.0 | 81.9 |
| 28= | 31 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 79.0 | 84.2 | 77.0 | 82.1 | 80.7 |
| 28= | 30 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 77.4 | 79.1 | 84.0 | 99.0 | 80.7 |
| 30 | 32 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 73.7 | 88.2 | 81.1 | 91.6 | 80.6 |
| 31 | 28 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong | 76.8 | 82.9 | 86.2 | 86.5 | 80.5 |
| 32 | 39= | Monash University | Australia | 73.8 | 87.0 | 80.7 | 92.3 | 80.3 |
| 33 | 33 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 76.6 | 83.4 | 81.9 | 83.0 | 79.8 |
| 34 | 43= | Peking University | China | 74.9 | 86.6 | 78.6 | 83.0 | 79.6 |
| 35 | 43= | University of Toronto | Canada | 77.0 | 78.4 | 84.5 | 87.3 | 79.2 |
| 36 | 35 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 72.7 | 84.5 | 87.9 | 85.7 | 79.1 |
| 37 | 34 | University of St Gallen (HSG) | Switzerland | 74.7 | 80.6 | 84.0 | 88.8 | 78.8 |
| 38 | 51-100 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 77.0 | 76.4 | 88.0 | 84.8 | 78.7 |
| 39 | 51-100 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong | 73.3 | 76.5 | 86.1 | 98.5 | 78.1 |
| 40 | 39= | Duke University | United States | 77.3 | 70.2 | 92.9 | 89.5 | 78.0 |
| 41= | 51-100 | Cornell University | United States | 74.6 | 78.1 | 84.0 | 88.1 | 77.9 |
| 41= | 39= | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 76.8 | 71.2 | 88.0 | 92.9 | 77.9 |
| 43 | 51-100 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 72.6 | 83.4 | 79.4 | 85.7 | 77.8 |
| 44 | 51-100 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 75.3 | 86.7 | 69.0 | 71.4 | 77.7 |
| 45= | 36= | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 74.3 | 81.2 | 78.6 | 82.1 | 77.6 |
| 45= | 46= | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 73.9 | 75.2 | 85.2 | 95.9 | 77.6 |
| 45= | 36= | McGill University | Canada | 73.4 | 78.5 | 88.6 | 84.8 | 77.6 |
| 45= | 36= | WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) | Austria | 77.6 | 74.5 | 84.0 | 80.0 | 77.6 |
| 49 | 51-100 | Tsinghua University | China | 72.2 | 84.2 | 77.2 | 83.9 | 77.5 |
| 50 | 46= | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 69.9 | 84.0 | 83.4 | 88.8 | 77.4 |