UCD Smurfit is also the only Irish business school consistently featured in global rankings over the last ten years. Our rankings benchmark us against the best business schools in the world and position our school, and more importantly our graduates, in the minds of the international business community.
Rankings with strict objective criteria such as the FT and The Economist are the only truly independent and internationally-respected classifications by which the world’s top schools are ranked.
Financial Times
- Our Executive MBA is ranked 81st in the world
- Our Full-Time MBA is ranked 73rd in the world
- Our Executive Education Open Enrolment programme is ranked 47th in the world and Custom Executive Education is ranked 56th.
- Our Masters in International Management is ranked 28th in the world
- Our Masters in Finance is ranked 59th in the world
- The school is ranked 21st in the Financial Times' ranking of leading European Business Schools
Economist Intelligence Unit
- Our Full-Time MBA is ranked 82nd in the global rankings
- Our Executive MBA is ranked 57th in the global rankings
The Economist discontinued its rankings products as of September 30, 2022. The rankings listed are from the final rankings which were published in 2022.
QS World University Rankings
- Our MSc in Supply Chain Management is ranked 14th globally
- Our MSc in Finance is ranked 48th globally
- Our MSc in Management (CEMS) is ranked 46th globally
- Our MSc in Marketing is ranked 31st globally
- Our MSc in Business Analytics is ranked 44th globally
- Our MBA programme is ranked 121-130 globally
- Our Executive MBA programme is ranked 87th globally and #1 in Ireland
- Our MSc International Business is ranked 58th globally (QS International Trade Rankings)
University College Dublin
- University College Dublin is ranked in the Global Top 120 in the QS World University Rankings 2026, marking the third year in a row of upward movement for the University.
- University College Dublin is ranked No.1 in Ireland in the latest QS Sustainability Rankings
- University College Dublin is ranked No. 1 University in Ireland in US News Global University Rankings
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