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U.S. News’ Historical MBA Rankings
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U.S. NEWS BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKINGS FROM 2012 TO 2001
School | 12 | 11 | 10 | 09 | 08 | 07 | 06 | 05 | 04 | 03 | 02 | 01 |
Harvard | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Stanford | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Wharton | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
MIT | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Northwestern | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
Chicago | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 9 |
Berkeley | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 7 |
Columbia | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
Dartmouth | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 |
Yale | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 12 |
New York | 11 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 12 |
Duke | 12 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
Michigan | 13 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 10 |
Virginia | 13 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 15 |
UCLA | 15 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 12 |
Cornell | 16 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Texas-Austin | 17 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 23 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 |
Carnegie Mellon | 18 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 |
Emory | 19 | 23 | 27 | 22 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
North Carolina | 19 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 17 | 18 |
Southern Cal | 21 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 26 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 21 |
Washington Univ. | 22 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 29 | 26 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Indiana | 23 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 20 |
Georgetown | 24 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 34 | 27 | 33 | 24 | 24 | 22 |
Ohio State | 25 | 25 | 21 | 26 | 27 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 24 | 23 |
Rice | 25 | 34 | 39 | 38 | 40 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Notre Dame | 25 | 37 | 31 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 32 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Wisconsin | 25 | 28 | 27 | 28 | 29 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Vanderbilt | 25 | 28 | 36 | 33 | 44 | 34 | 49 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Arizona State | 30 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 22 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Minnesota | 30 | 21 | 24 | 33 | 27 | 25 | 23 | 23 | 21 | NA | 24 | NA |
Georgia Tech | 32 | 28 | 26 | 22 | 29 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Texas A&M | 32 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 29 | 29 | 31 | NA | 23 | NA | NA | NA |
Brigham Young | 34 | 32 | 33 | 29 | 29 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Washington | 35 | 37 | 33 | 26 | 34 | 29 | 29 | 18 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
UC-Davis | 36 | 28 | 42 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Boston College | 37 | 34 | 39 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Boston Univ. | 37 | 34 | 31 | 46 | 40 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Illinois | 37 | 37 | 42 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 28 | NA | 23 | NA | NA | NA |
Rochester | 37 | 45 | 27 | 29 | 25 | 36 | 26 | 23 | NA | NA | 23 | NA |
UT-Dallas | 37 | 40 | 50 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Purdue | 42 | 49 | 36 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 23 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Tulane | 43 | 40 | 53 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Michigan State | 44 | 51 | 46 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Penn State | 44 | 40 | 48 | 40 | 40 | NA | 38 | 37 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Florida | 44 | 47 | 39 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Maryland | 44 | 45 | 45 | 40 | 39 | 25 | 38 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Wake Forest | 44 | 52 | 46 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
UC-Irvine | 49 | 40 | 36 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Iowa | 49 | 40 | 42 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Source: U.S. News & World Report rankings
Notes: U.S. News & World Report rankings are dated by the year in which the ranking was published. U.S. News & World Report began ranking full-time MBA programs in 1990, two years after BusinessWeek’s first ranking. The magazine does not allow access to its historical data, preferring only to show the latest annual results.
BusinessWeek’s Historical MBA Rankings 1988 — 2010
School | 10 | 08 | 06 | 04 | 02 | 00 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 92 | 90 | 88 |
Booth | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
Harvard | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Wharton | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Kellogg | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Stanford | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 9 |
Fuqua | 6 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 10 |
Ross | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
Haas | 8 | 10 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 17 |
Columbia | 9 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 14 |
Sloan | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 15 |
Darden | 11 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 7 |
Cox | 12 | 18 | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 23 | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Johnson | 13 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 5 |
Tuck | 14 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Tepper | 15 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 13 |
Kenan-Flagler | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 8 |
Anderson | 17 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 16 |
Stern | 18 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 18 |
Kelley | 19 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 12 |
Broad | 20 | 2T | 29 | NR | 23 | 29 | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR |
Yale | 21 | 24 | 19 | 22 | 14 | 19 | 20 | 22 | NR | NR | NR | 19 |
Goizueta | 22 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 28 | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR |
Georgia Tech | 23 | 29 | 2T | 2T | 30 | 3T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Mendoza | 24 | 20 | 26 | 24 | 29 | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR |
McCombs | 25 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 17 | NR | 18 | NR |
Marshall | 26 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR |
Marriott | 27 | 22 | NR | NR | 2T | 3T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR |
Carlson | 28 | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 3T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Jones | 29 | NR | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Mays | 30 | NR | 3T | 3T | 3T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Foster | 31 | 27 | 2T | 2T | 3T | 3T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Fisher | 32 | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
McDonough | 33 | 2T | NR | 30 | 26 | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Wisconsin | 34 | NR | 2T | 2T | 2T | 23 | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Freeman | 35 | NR | 3T | 3T | 2T | 3T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Terry | 36 | NR | 2T | 3T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Owen | 37 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 28 | 22 | 2T | 24 | NR | 19 | NR | NR |
Boston Univ. | 38 | 2T | 2T | 3T | 2T | 3T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Babson | 39 | 2T | NR | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Olin | 40 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 17 | 16 | NR | 20 | NR | NR |
Krannert | 41 | 2T | 24 | 21 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 2T | 20 | NR | NR | NR |
Smith | 42 | 26 | 25 | 28 | 25 | 27 | 22 | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR |
Simon | 43 | 2T | 28 | 29 | 27 | 21 | 2T | 21 | NR | NR | 20 | 20 |
Smeal | 44 | NR | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Thunderbird | 45 | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 25 | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Illinois | 46 | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Mason | 47 | NR | 3T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Wake Forest | 48 | NR | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Carey | 49 | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Carroll | 50 | NR | 2T | 2T | 3T | 3T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Weatherhead | 51 | NR | 2T | 2T | 3T | 3T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
GW | 52 | 2T | 3T | 3T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Howard | 53 | NR | NR | NR | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Katz | 54 | NR | 3T | 2T | 2T | 2T | 2T | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Rutgers | 55 | NR | 3T | 3T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Northeastern | 56 | NR | 3T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | |
Buffalo | 57 | NR | NR | 3T | 3T | 3T | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
Source: BusinessWeek rankings
Notes: BusinessWeek began ranking the top U.S. full-time MBA programs every other year beginning in 1988 when it gave numerical ranks to 20 schools. Over the years, the magazine has expanded its lists, to a Top 25 in 1996, a Top 30 in 2000, and a Top 57 in 2010. In several years, BusinessWeek named second tier (2T) and third tier (3T) schools without a numerical ranking. There is some missing data for second tier schools in the year 2006.