Rankings and Accreditations of IIM Lucknow Noida Campus

Financial Times Global MBA 2026

IIM Lucknow's International Programme in Management for Executives, the one-year MBA run from the Noida campus, secured the 58th position in the Financial Times Global MBA 2026 ranking, announced on 17 February 2026. The institute says it shares this position with the University of St. Gallen and that the result is a 13-place rise from the previous year. The institute does not state the year-earlier rank in the page we reviewed, and we have not used the 57th figure that appears in older data, since it conflicts with a 13-place rise.

Financial Times Masters in Management 2026

The official ranking page reports that IIM Lucknow continues to be ranked in the FT top 100 for Masters in Management, at an overall rank of 72, sixth among the IIMs and ninth among all business schools in India. This ranking relates to the institute's flagship postgraduate programme rather than to the executive programmes taught in Noida.

NIRF

The NIRF page on the IIM Lucknow website publishes the data submitted by the institute to India Rankings for 2018 to 2026, with the most recent upload dated 20 April 2026. The page does not itself state a numerical rank, so we have not repeated the NIRF rank from older compilations. Candidates can check the rank in the National Institutional Ranking Framework's own release for the Management category.

• AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS: shown on the official website and described as Triple Crown accreditation on the IPMX page
• FT Global MBA 2026: IPMX ranked 58
• FT Masters in Management 2026: overall rank 72, sixth among IIMs
• NIRF: data submission documents available; rank to be confirmed from NIRF

Rankings measure different things. The FT Global MBA assessment considers factors such as alumni salaries, career progress and international mobility, so it is relevant mainly to IPMX. The institute is a government-supported autonomous body governed by the IIM Act, so candidates should not look for AICTE approval for IIM programmes. For fees and admission details, see the fees and admission pages, and for programme structure see courses.

Ranking positions change every year and should always be verified at the source before being quoted in decisions about admission.