The Economist 2010 MBA Ranking

BIGGEST YEAR-OVER-YEAR WINNERS IN THE ECONOMIST 2010 RANKING

School Difference in Ranks 2010 Rank 2009 Rank
Washington Univ. (Olin) +20 45 65
Vanderbilt (Owen) +18 46 64
USC (Marshall) +18 18 36
Hult International +17 27 44
Emory (Goizueta) +16 36 52
Univ. of Virginia (Darden) +13 11 24
UCLA (Anderson) +13 37 50
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) +12 21 33
Indiana (Kelley) +11 35 46
ESADE (Spain) +9 20 29
Columbia Business School +8 12 20
MIT (Sloan) +6 13 19

How does the 2010 Economist survey compare against the other major rankings? We show you below starting with a comparison to our own survey, then BusinessWeek, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and finally The Financial Times. Because Poets&Quants, BusinessWeek, and Forbes separately report the best non-U.S. schools, we show their rankings of these schools with an asterisk.

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2010 Economist Rank & School P&Q BW Forbes U.S. News FT
1.   Chicago (Booth) 3 1 4 5 7
2.   Dartmouth (Tuck) 5 12 2 7 14
3.   California-Berkeley (Haas) 9 10 12 7 28
4.   Harvard Business School 1 2 3 1 1
5.   IESE Business School (Spain) 2* 9* 3* NA 11
6.   IMD (Switzerland) 3* 7* 2* NA 15
7.   Stanford Graduate School 2* 6 1 1 4
8.   Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4 4 5 5 2
9.   HEC School of Mgt. (France) 7* ST* 7* NA 14
10.  York Univ. (Schulich) (Canada) 11* ST* 6* NA 54
11.  Virginia (Darden) 13 16 9 13 31
12.  Columbia Business School 6 7* 6* 9 6
13.  MIT (Sloan) 8 9* 14 3 8
14.  New York Univ. (Stern) 10 13 17 9 13
15.  Cranfield (Britain) 9* ST* 9* NA 18
16.  Northwestern (Kellogg) 7 3 8 4 22
17.  Henley (Britain) NR NR NR NR NR
18.  Southern California (Marshall) 23 25 32 20 57
19.  London Business School 1* 5* 1* NA 1
20.  ESADE (Spain) 8* 6* 8* NA 19
21.  Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 17 19 23 16 34
22.  IE Business School (Spain) 4* 2* 3* NA 6
23.  INSEAD (France) 5* 3* 1* NA 5
24.  Yale School of Management 15 24 10 11 16
25.  Michigan (Ross) 12 5* 18 12 28
26.  Mannheim (Germany) NR NR NR NR NR
27.  Hult Int’l Business School NR NR NR NR 97
28.  Duke (Fuqua) 11 8 13 14 20
29.  Univ. of Bath (Britain) NR NR NR NR 87
30.  Cambridge (Judge) (Britain) 6* ST* 4* NA 21
31.  Univ. College Dublin (Ireland) NR NR NR NR 98
32.  Univ. of Washington (Foster) 28 27 40 33 78
33.  Cornell (Johnson) 14 11 7 18 36
34.  Warwick (Britain) 26* NR NR NA 42
35.  Indiana University (Kelley) 20 15 25 23 57
36.  Emory (Goizueta) 21 23 22 27 34
37.  UCLA (Anderson) 16 14 19 15 33
38.  EM-Lyon (France) 25* NR 11* NA 97
39.  Notre Dame (Mendoza) 25 20 38 31 71
40.  North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 18 17 15 21 46
41.  Rice University (Jones) 46 NR 47 39 44
42.  Boston University 40 ST 61 31 61
43.  Texas-Austin (McCombs) 19 21 11 16 52
44.  Melbourne (Australia) NR NR NR NA 63
45.  Washington Univ. (Olin) 26 28 41 19 50
46.  Vanderbilt (Owen) 30 30 30 36 57
47.  Vierick Leuven (Belgium) NR NR NR NA 87
48.  Univ. of Hong Kong NR NR NR NA NR
49.  EDHEC Business (France) NR NR NR NA NR
50.  Georgetown (McDonough) 24 ST 31 24 38

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Footnotes:

  • Indicates ranking on a separate non-U.S. list of best B-schools so the ranking may not be directly comparable to The Economist and The Financial Times’ lists.

ST Indicates a school was named a “second-tier” school by BusinessWeek, a small set of schools the publication doesn’t rank but identifies due to its well-regarded reputation.

NR Indicates not-ranked by the publication.

Source: The Economist, 2010 full-time ranking

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