MBA.com, the official site of the graduate management admission test (GMAT), measured the popularity of the world's top MBA programs based on the number of GMAT scores sent by candidates to each program in the last testing year, which ran July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.
Unlike other rankings, this list aims to give a sense of a what the most popular MBA programs are among those who take the GMAT, according to MBA.com.
Harvard, Stanford and Wharton topped the list of the world's most popular programs, according to the data compiled by MBA.com. Schulich ranked 28th in the world, just behind Cornell and IESE, and ahead of the Kellogg School of Management.
MBA.com describes its ranking as a data-based measure of a business school's "popularity with prospective students."
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