London Business School
United Kingdom · University of London (federal; LBS is a member institution)
#25
Business Schools 2026 · 90% range 21–31 of 107 · score 71.4
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How it scores
Careers65
Alumni outcomes88
Selectivity67
Research86
Percentiles among 107 business schools.
The numbers
- Median base salary
- GBP 91,928 (mean) (≈ $121,716 as scored) (2025) src
- Employed within 3 months
- 86% (2025) src
- Average GMAT
- 645 (GMAT Focus; 86th percentile) (2025) (secondary source) src
- Full-time MBA class size
- 488 (2025) src
- Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)
- 90.8 (2021-2025) src
- MBA alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)
- 568 (2026) src
Salary, employment, GMAT and class figures come from the school’s own published MBA reports (or, where marked, its figures as reproduced by Bloomberg Businessweek or Poets&Quants); each links to its source. Schools not on a published alumni list are estimated below the list’s cutoff.