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Positive Impact Rating 2025 Edition
We launched the 2025 Report at the PRME Global Forum
We're thrilled to announce that the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) 2025 Report was unveiled during a keynote session at the PRME Global Forum 2025, held online on June 10, 2025. The event brought together students, business school representatives, and other societal stakeholders from around the world.
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The report presented the latest social impact levels of business schools.
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Prior to this, the PIR Global Summit 2025 took place online, focusing on new themes of enhancement and innovation in business school education. The discussion was, as always, truly insightful, enriched by the opinions of professors and students from around the world, making the debate exceptionally diverse and profound.
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Participants engaged in a co-creation session that generated significant and innovative outcomes designed to inspire the global business school landscape. During the summit, they collaborated to formulate actionable strategies and initiatives aimed at integrating learning, research, and communication for effective and transparent change in business schools. These efforts led to the launch of new PIR working groups, open to all PIR-affiliated schools.
PRME Global Forum 2025
The schools were ranked according to five levels, with 5 being the top level and 1 the lowest:
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Level 1 * Beginning efforts at schools that are either getting started or are considering to get started or have difficulties getting off the ground despite a stated commitment or vision
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Level 2 ** Emerging schools starting to translate a stated commitment to positive action in one or more domains
Level 3 *** Progressing schools demonstrating evidence of results across some impact dimensions
Level 4 **** Transforming schools with a positive impact culture, embedded in governance and systems, with visible results progress in many impact dimensions
Level 5 ***** Pioneering schools with unique, sustaining global leadership progress in all impact dimensions
After much analysis, we opted for a minimum number of 100 valid student responses per school. We deliberately refrain from disclosing the distinction between low-rated schools and those with an insufficient number of responses.
Starting this year, not only students but also faculty members have had the opportunity to evaluate their schools, further enriching the perspective offered by the rating.
The Top Rated Schools of 2025
(listed in alphabetical order)​
Level 5 ***** Pioneering
• CENTRUM PUCP Business School, Peru
• HKUST Business School, China
• IIM Bangalore, India
• IIM Indore, India
• INCAE Business School, Costa Rica
• IPADE Business School, Mexico
• POLIMI School of Management, Italy
• S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, India
• Universal AI Business School, India
• Woxsen University School of Business, India
• XLRI Xavier School of Management, India
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Level 4 **** Transforming
• Audencia Business School, France
• Bologna Business School, Italy
• BSB Burgundy School of Business, France
• Colorado State University College of Business, USA
• CUNEF University, Spain
• Deusto Business School - University of Deusto, Spain
• Drake University Zimpleman College of Business, USA
• EADA Business School, Spain
• EAE Business School, Spain
• ESADE Business School, Spain
• Excelia Business School, France
• Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, USA
• Fortune Institute of Intn. Business, India
• GIBS Business School, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
• IESEG School of Management, France
• IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, Austria
• Imperial College Business School, UK
• Iscte Business School, Portugal
• ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Portugal
• John Molson School of Business Concordia University, Canada
• Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland
• Ketner School of Business Catawba College, USA
• Kozminski University, Poland
• Lang School of Business & Economics University of Guelph, Canada
• Leeds University Business School, UK
• Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE), Netherlands
• Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK
• MCI - Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
• Nottingham University Business School, UK
• OBS Business School, Spain
• Qatar University College of Business and Economics, Qatar
• Rennes School of Business, France
• Rome Business School, Italy
• Sasin School of Management, Thailand
• SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
• Sobey School of Business, Canada
• Strathmore University Business School, Kenya
• The Haub School of Business Saint Joseph's University, USA
• The University of Sydney Bus. School, Australia
• University of Buffalo School of Management, USA
• University of Exeter Business School, UK
• University of Porto School of Economics and Management, Portugal
• University of Vermont Grossman School of Business, USA
• UPF Barcelona School of Management, Spain
• Wits Business School, South Africa
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Level 3 ***** Progressing
• Adam Smith Business School University of Glasgow, UK
• Berlin School of Business and Innovation (BSBI), Germany
• Bern University of Applied Sciences, Business School, Switzerland
• BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
• EDHEC Business School, France
• EM Lyon Business School, France
• FHNW School of Business, Switzerland
• HEC Montréal, Canada
• I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada
• ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium
• IIM Visakhapatnam, India
• K J Somaiya Institute of Management, India
• KEDGE Business School, France
• King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Economics and Administration, Saudi Arabia
• Loughborough Business School, UK
• Miller College of Business, Ball State University Miller College of Business, USA
• Montpellier Business School, France
• Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada
• Robert Morris University Rockwell Schol of Business, USA
• School of Business Economics and Law University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Silberman College of Business, FDU, USA
• Sprott School of Business Carleton University, Canada
• Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
• University of Economics and Human Sciences Warsaw, Poland
• University of Namur, Belgium
• University of Rhode Island College of Business, USA
• University of Salford Business School, UK
• University of San Francisco School of Management, USA
• ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland