The Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas was ranked No. 6 worldwide for research productivity in the 2025 Financial Times Business School rankings. The five schools ranked ahead of Jindal School are Pennsylvania University Wharton School, which ranked No. 1, Columbia Business School at No. 2, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (No. 3), France’s INSEAD (No. 5) and Harvard University (No. 5).
The Jindal School has placed at No. 5 or 6 in five of the past six FT research productivity rankings.
This high placement makes the Jindal School the highest ranked business school in Texas for research output. The other Texas schools in the ranking were UT Austin, which landed at No. 10, Texas A&M University at No. 30 and Rice University at No. 43.
“This recognition reflects our vision to prepare tomorrow’s business leaders while expanding the frontiers of management knowledge,” said Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Caruth Chair and Jindal School dean. “We are honored to represent Texas and proud to be one of the distinguished business-research institutions at the top of this prestigious list.”
The other internationally recognized ranking platform — The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™ — has placed the Jindal School at No. 2 for the past three years, topped only by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in each of those rankings.
Five Texas schools are represented in the UTD Top 100 Worldwide 2025 Rankings. UTD stands No. 2 while UT Austin is ranked No. 12. Texas A&M comes in at No. 32, Rice is No. 67 and the University of Houston is No. 69.
