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Business School Rankings: US News

This guide features a central place to find information about current and historical business school rankings. The guide was originally designed and developed by Bob Hebert of Wake Forest University.

Ranking Methodology

Business School Ranking Methodology

  1. Peer assessment

  2. Recruiter assessment

  3. Placement success

  4. Mean starting salary

  5. Employment rates

  6. Mean GMAT

  7. Mean GPA

  8. Acceptance rate

Primary US News Ranking

The US News U.S. Fulltime MBA ranking is published annually in March.  The ranking began in 1990.

The Best U.S. Business Schools (Fulltime MBA) 2020

1. Stanford GSB
1. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
3. Northwestern (Kellogg)
3. Chicago (Booth)
5. MIT (Sloan)
6. Harvard
7. UC-Berkeley (Haas)
8. Columbia
9. Yale SOM
10. New York (Stern)
11. Virginia (Darden)
12. Dartmouth (Tuck)
12. Duke (Fuqua)
12. Michigan (Ross)
15. Cornell (Johnson)
16. UCLA (Anderson)
17. Southern California (Marshall)
18. Texas-Austin (McCombs)
19. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
20. Washington (Foster)
22. Emory (Goizueta)
23. Indiana (Kelley)
23. Vanderbilt (Owen)
25. Georgetown (McDonough)
25. Rice (Jones)
27. Georgia Tech (Scheller)
28. Florida (Warrington)
28. Minnesota (Carlson)
30. Brigham Young (Marriott)
30. Notre Dame (Mendoza)
30. Washington (Olin)
33. Georgia (Terry)
33. Texas-Dallas (Jindal)
35. Arizona State (Carey)
35. Rochester (Simon)
37. Ohio State (Fisher)
37. Wisconsin-Madison
39. Pittsburgh (Katz)
40. Michigan State (Broad)
41. Penn State (Smeal)
41. Southern Methodist (Cox)
41. Alabama (Manderson)
44. Texas A&M (Mays)
44. Maryland (Smith)
46. Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)
46. Arizona (Eller)
48. Boston College (Carroll)
48. Boston Univ. (Questrom)
48. Utah (Eccles)
52. NC State (Poole)
53. George Washington
53. Iowa State (Ivy)
53. Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg)
56. Auburn (Harbert)
56. Baylor (Hankamer)
56. Rutgers
56. Texas Christian (Neeley)
60. Buffalo-SUNY
61. Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)
62. William & Mary (Mason)
62. CUNY Baruch (Zicklin)
62. Temple (Fox)
62. Missouri (Trulaske)
62. South Carolina (Moore)
67. UC-Irvine (Merage)
68. Kansas
69. Louisiana State (Ourso)
70. Howard
70. Colorado-Boulder (Leeds)
72. Babson (Olin)
72. Univ. of Miami
74. Chapman (Argyros)
74. Tulane (Freeman)
74. Connecticut-Storrs
77. Stevens Institute of Technology
77. Syracuse (Whitman)
77. Kentucky (Gatton)
80. Fordham (Gabelli)
80. Purdue (Krannert)
80. Denver (Daniels)
83. Clemson
83. Pepperdine (Graziadio)
85. Florida State
85. Louisville
85. Oklahoma (Price)
88. Case Western (Weatherhead)
89. Clarkson
89. Rochester Tech (Saunders)
89. UC-San Diego (Rady)
92. Oklahoma State (Spears)
92. Texas Tech (Rawls)
92. Mississippi
95. Charleston
95. UC-Riverside (Anderson)
95. Houston (Bauer)
95. Oregon (Lundquist)

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