Also in 2026, the winner of the Financial Times Master in Management Ranking is the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland with its Master in Strategy and International Management (SIM). Still, some schools surprised by challenging the usual suspects and pushing them down to lower ranks. The Nova School of Business & Economics from Portugal made it to rank 2, for instance, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Antai) came in at rank 3. Vlerick Business School from Belgium also made it into the top ten for the first time.

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