NUS retains crown as Asia’s top business school in latest QS ranking 

[SINGAPORE] The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School retained its place as the top-ranked business school in Asia-Pacific, said higher education analytics firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) on Wednesday (Apr 29).

This was according to the 2026 edition of the  QS Executive MBA (EMBA) Rankings, which ranked 215 EMBA programmes across 55 countries and territories. QS also ranked 31 joint EMBA programmes in a separate list.

A total of 35 business schools from 14 Apac countries featured in this year’s list. Of these, four improved in rank, 15 declined, seven maintained their positions from last year, and nine debuted on the list.

Across Apac, business schools from Mainland China were the most represented, as eight schools from the country ranked on the list. This is followed by India with seven ranked schools, Australia with four and Singapore with three.

The Apac top 10

NUS Business School, which ranked 14th globally, is one of three Singapore universities among Apac’s top 10 business schools.

Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) Nanyang Business School dropped 11 places to 35th in the global list, and was overtaken by the Melbourne Business School (ranked 29th) as the second-best business school in Apac.

Meanwhile, Singapore Management University’s (SMU) Lee Kong Chian School of Business fell nine places to 38th, but remained the fourth highest-ranked in Apac.

Both the University of New South Wales (Australian Graduate School of Management) and the University of Sydney Business School also remained the fifth and sixth highest-ranked Apac business schools.

China’s Peking University HSBC Business School and Fudan University took the seventh and eighth places in the Apac top 10, while the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Business School moved two places down to ninth regionally.

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The City University of Hong Kong Business School – which was also the highest-ranked debutant on the global list – capped the Apac top 10.

Global rankings

Globally, Oxford remained the top business school in 2026, followed by HEC Paris.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management moved up one place to third, overtaking Barcelona’s IESE Business School.

Northwestern (Kellogg) and the Yale School of Management were joint-fifth, while the London Business School dropped two ranks to seventh.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School fell one spot to eighth, while Insead and the Warwick Business School maintained the ninth and 10th ranks on the global list.