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The Top 25 Best Colleges For Future Leaders
When you think about learning leadership skills, do you picture a business school classroom or learning on the job? If you’re lean towards school, you’ll want to direct your attention to those programs that are the best of the best at teaching leadership skills.
TIME and Statista have partnered up to create their version of the Best Colleges For Future Leaders 2025 to help identify the program that best prepare students for leadership roles.
A SMALL SAMPLE SIZE WITH VAGUE PARAMETERS
In this year’s rankings, their Ivy League schools again landed in the top spots, with Harvard Business School in No.1, Stanford placing No. 2, and Yale at No. 3. These numbers are pretty closely aligned to where these schools stand in our P&Q undergraduate rankings, but the key standout missing from the cluster at the top was Notre Dame Mendoza, coming in at No. 33.
Are these rankings actually representative of the schools that best teach future leaders? If you’re looking at leadership from an extremely wide lens – then possibly, yet it’s still a very small sample size.
This year, TIME and Statista included top leaders from even more sectors than last year. They include those in government, academia, sports, and even nonprofits and religious orgs. These professionals hail from an array of colleges, not just business schools. Another factor to keep in mind: they don’t mention what these leaders’ roles were within their companies.
BUSINESS STUDENTS, LOOK ELSEWHERE
Curious which business schools shape the best future leaders, then you may consider looking at the P&Q business school ranking that focuses specifically on the quality of business programs.
On the plus side, TIME and Statista doubled their scope of the leaders they considered this year to 4,000 compared to just 2,000 last year - but was this a big enough sample to say this is representative of leadership in the U.S.?
Arguably not, when you consider that there were a reported 32.6 million businesses registered this year, most of which, if not all of which, have leaders within the U.S.
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