UCD Smurfit School has slipped to joint 86th place in the Financial Times ranking of full-time MBA programmes, down from 78th last year. Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School were ranked first and second respectively.

The annual survey examines a range or criteria including salary, career progress, standard of teaching and quality of research. The UCD Smurfit Business school is the only Irish business school listed in the rankings. This is the 13th consecutive year it has been included in the top 100.