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Category: Rankings

Analysis and insight of the rankings of business schools, universities and the world of academia

Business Research After FT50 Reshuffle And MIT Sloan Management Review closure

In the space of a week, two decisions have redrawn the map of business research. The Financial Times had carefully replaced three journals in its FT50 list of academic journals. It had now lost a fourth without choosing to. MIT Sloan Management Review -sixty years old and an FT50 mainstay will cease publication. The two stories are not a coincidence.

Which Countries Lead the World in Academic Research? The Data Has a Few Surprises

Dreaming spires and ivy-clad walls say little about the quality of academic research being produced across an entire national system The measuresHE Country 100 ranking 2026 measure which countries have built the deepest, most rigorous, most open and most consistently excellent research ecosystems, from top to bottom. The results may surprise you.

Can the MBA Make You Joyful?

Joy is not a word that appears very often on business school websites. Transformation, yes. Leadership, constantly. Impact, inevitably. But joy? A new study pushes back against that instinct, describing a 'pedagogy of joy' which might be what transformation feels like from the inside.

Talent 100 Ranking 2026 of Business & Economics

The Talent 100 Business & Economics 2026 ranking measures academics not by fame, institutional halo or lifetime achievement, but by recent, demonstrable research performance - publication volume, quality, citation impact and what measuresHE calls “research gravitas.”