Rankings, achievements and accreditation

Organisations should strive to achieve their objectives and missions. As a world-class business school, embedded in the world’s top University, we are honoured to have been acknowledged in a number of ways. 

• Thomas Powell, Professor of Strategy received the 2018 Best Article Award from California Management Review for his paper 'Strategy as Diligence: Putting Behavioural Strategy into Practice'. 
• Andrew Stephen, L’Oréal Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean of Research, has been ranked as one of the most productive marketing academic researchers in the world by the American Marketing Association as well as being the top-ranked UK professor.
• Professor Sue Dopson has been awarded the Col. Lyndall F. Urwick Memorial Prize presented annually by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, for an outstanding piece of research relevant to management consultancy. 
• Dr Irem Guceri, Research Fellow has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• Professor Michael Devereux has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the leading professional body in the UK for advisers dealing with all aspects of taxation.

We are a world-class business school, fully integrated into the world's top university.

Here are just a few of our recent accolades.

Oxford University

• 1st in the latest Times Higher Education, World University Rankings

Overall

• Top business school in the Times Higher Education Awards 2017

MBA

• Ranked 5th internationally for one-year programmes in Forbes 2019

Executive Education

• 1st in the UK for the fifth consecutive year for Open Programmes – the Financial Times
• 4th in the UK for Custom Programmes – the Financial Times

Accounting and Finance

• 5th in the world – QS Top Universities

BA in Economics and Management

• 1st in the UK – The Guardian
• 8th in the world – QS Top Universities

MSc Financial Economics

• 1st in the world - QS Top Universities
• 2nd in the UK – the Financial Times
• 12th in the world – the Financial Times

Oxford EMBA

• 1st in the UK – The Economist
• 7th in the world – The Economist
• 10th in the world – the Financial Times

Oxford MBA

• 13th in the world - the Financial Time's Global MBA Ranking
• 2nd in the UK – the Financial Times' Global MBA Ranking
• 4th in the Bloomberg Businessweek's full-time International MBA ranking
• 8th in the world for Finance in the Financial Times' Top MBAs for Finance Ranking
• 6th among the top non-US Business Schools for return on investment – Forbes