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MBA is a well known professional degree which stands for "Master of Business Administration". The courses taught in MBA are very well designed and tested by the professionals for better impartment of skills in the graduates (basic prerequisite to enroll into an MBA) and acquaint them to the various aspects which are common to every business like financing, marketing, inventory management and human resources etc and other management skills.

Every year number of well known publications publishes MBA school ranking based on different benchmarks like quality of facility, facilities available to students and the courses offered to students etc. however due to flaws in the ranking methodology or lack of common grounds for ranking of MBA schools different publications have conflict with each other's ranking. The difference in results is so adverse that there is turmoil of ranks in different publications leading to a chaos in minds of the applicant due to lack of a common quality criteria.

The popularity of MBA is on cloud nine such that there is a huge competition between the applicants to acquire a seat in a particular business school with a disciple of his or her choice. Lots of students apply for a MBA course in different countries according to their international MBA ranking which is calculated using an internationally recognized entrance test called as the GMAT or the Graduate Management Admission test however some universities also accept GRE (Graduate Record Examination) as an admission criterion to entitle for a MBA course. This is however not the only factor contributing the admission process, you may have to appear for an interview or a group discussion or both as applicable. For some universities you may have to meet some additional criteria's to enroll into a course.

MBA course is termed as a gold egg because you have an extra edge after post graduating in business administration and have better career opportunities.

MBA programs offered across the world are ranked based on quality and skills of students coming from them. Other factors that affect MBA ranking is the number of years it takes to complete the course. MBA schools are also ranked based on factors such as quality of education, infrastructure, accredition, programs, affordability, and the time taken to get the qualification.

The term ranking needs to be differentiated with accredition. Accredition is something that is obtained based on standards set by accredition agencies, whereas MBA rankings are based on reputation and demand. Rankings are published by popular business related publications like The Economist, Business Week, Financial Times, etc. The rankings given by each of these publications may again differ, based on methods employed. Therefore, rankings may not be uniform across the board.

It is a different issue that all MBA programs that are ranked high are essentially accredited programs, whereas the converse may not always be true, i.e., all accredited programs may not be the top ranking MBA programs. Likewise, it is not necessary that only the names of accredited business schools would be found in MBA school ranking lists. The education received in an MBA program can help future business professionals make stronger decisions, as Isaac Dabah has recently displayed.

As of date, US based Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School (MA), Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University (IL), Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, MIT Sloan (MA), Columbia Business School (NY), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (NC) would qualify as the top ranking business schools in the US.

Aspirants prefer London Business School, Oxford Said Business School, Warwick Business School, Cranfield School of Management, Edinburgh University Management School in the UK, in that sequence, for their MBA education.

There are popular and recognized Australian Business schools as well, such as the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australian Graduate School of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Queensland University of Technology (Faculty of Business), Curtin Business School, University of Technology, Sydney (Business Faculty), Graduate School of Business, Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Adelaide Graduate School of Business.

In addition to these business schools, there are some in Singapore, Hong Kong and India. The list includes National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Nanyang Business School, INSEAD Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), School of Business - University of Hong Kong, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A) -Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM B)- Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM I), Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, and Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM L).