Top Business Schools

Rank

Wall Street Journal (2005)

Business Week (2004)

(Connect to Business Week Rankings History)

USNWR
(2007)

Forbes
National Programs

(2005)

1

Dartmouth (Tuck)

Purdue Univ.
(Krannert)

Northwestern (Kellogg)

Harvard

Dartmouth (Tuck)

2

Michigan

Michigan State (Broad)

Chicago

Stanford

U. Penn (Wharton)

3

Carnegie Mellon

Ohio State (Fisher)

U. Penn (Wharton)

U. Penn (Wharton)

Chicago

4

Northwestern (Kellogg)

Thunderbird (AGSM)

Stanford

(tie 4) MIT (Sloan)

Columbia

5

Yale

IPADE

Harvard

(tie 4) Northwestern (Kellogg)

Yale

6

U Penn
(Wharton)

Brigham Young (Marriott)

Michigan

Chicago

Stanford

7

UC Berkeley (Haas)

Wake Forest (Babcock)

Cornell (Johnson)

(tie 7) Columbia

Harvard

8

Columbia

Denver (Daniels)

Columbia

(tie 7) UC Berkeley (Haas)

Virginia (Darden)

9

UNC - Chapel Hill)

ITESM-EGADE

MIT (Sloan)

Dartmouth (Tuck)

Cornell (Johnson)

10

U Southern California (Marshall)

Miami

Dartmouth
 (Tuck)

UCLA (Anderson)

Northwestern (Kellogg)

11

Virginia
(Darden)

Indiana (Kelley)

Duke (Fuqua)

(tie 11) Duke (Fuqua)

Texas - Austin (McCombs)

12

MIT (Sloan)

Emory (Goizueta)

Virginia
(Darden)

(tie 11) Michigan

Iowa (Tippie)

13

Chicago

SUNY - Buffalo

New York U
 (Stern)

(tie 13) New York U (Stern)

New York U (Stern)

14

Harvard

Fordham U

UCLA (Anderson)

(tie 13) Virginia (Darden)

N Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)

15

Stanford

Maryland (Smith)

Carnegie Mellon

Yale

UC Berkeley (Haas)

16

New York U
 (Stern)

Iowa (Tippie)

UNC - Chapel Hill

(tie 16) Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon

17

Duke (Fuqua)

Rochester
(Simon)

UC Berkeley (Haas)

(tie 16) Cornell (Johnson)

Brigham Young (Marriott)

18

Cornell (Johnson)

Texas Christian (Neeley)

Indiana (Kelley)

(tie 18) Emory (Goizueta)

MIT (Sloan)

19

UCLA (Anderson)

William & Mary

Texas - Austin
(McCombs)

(tie 18) Texas - Austin (McCombs)

UCLA (Anderson)

20

 

Southern Methodist (Cox)

Emory (Goizueta)

UNC - Chapel Hill

Duke (Fuqua)

21

 

Vanderbilt (Owen)

Purdue Univ.
(Krannert)

Purdue (Krannert)

Emory (Goizueta)

22

 

Rice (Jones)

Yale

Ohio State (Fisher)

Indiana (Kelley)

23

 

Tennessee

Washington U - St Louis (Olin)

(tie 23) Indiana (Kelley)

Penn State (Smeal)

24

 

Arizona (Eller)

Notre Dame (Mendoza)

(tie 23) Michigan St U (Broad)

Texas A&M (Mays)

25

 

Washington U St Louis (Olin)

Georgetown (McDonough)

(tie 23) Minnesota - Twin Cities (Carlson)

Vanderbilt (Owen)

26

 

Utah (Eccles)

Babson (Olin)

(tie 26) Rochester
(Simon)

 

27

 

Florida (Warrington)

U Southern California (Marshall)

(tie 26) Washington U St Louis (Olin)

 

28

 

Texas A&M (Mays)

Maryland (Smith)

U of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

 

29

 

Notre Dame (Mendoza)

Rochester
(Simon)

(tie 29) U Southern California (Marshall)

 

30

 

Georgia (Terry)

Vanderbilt
(Owen)

(tie 29) U. Washington

 

 

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