Poets&Quants’ Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2012

Poets&Quants’ Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2012

2012 P&Q Rank & School Index    2011 Rank   BW   Forbes   U.S. News   FT    Econ
  1. Harvard Business School Boston, MA 100.0 1 2 1 1 2 4
  2. Stanford GSB Stanford, CA 98.9 2 4 2 1 1 8
  3. Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL 98.5 3 1 3 4 6 1
  4. UPenn (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA 97.8 4 3 4 3 3 10
  5. Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL 94.8 7 5 7 4 9 13
  6. MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA 94.3 5 9 10 4 5 7
  7. Columbia New York, NY 93.9 5 14 5 8 4 5
  8. Dartmouth (Tuck) Hanover, NH 93.1 8 12 6 9 11 2
  9. UC-Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA 91.8 9 13 13 7 7 6
10. Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC 91.1 10 6 12 12 8 19
11. Cornell (Johnson) Ithaca, NY 90.9 13 7 8 16 13 11
12. Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA 90.7 11 10 9 13 17 3
13. Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI 88.4 12 8 14 13 14 16
14. New York (Stern) New York, NY 88.0 15 16 18 11 10 9
15. Yale New Haven, CT 87.7 14 21 11 10 12 17
16. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA 85.1 17 11 23 18 16 12
17. UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA 84.6 16 18 20 15 15 15
18. Texas (McCombs) Austin, TX 82.8 19 19 17 17 24 18
19. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC 82.1 18 17 16 19 26 25
20. Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA 81.6 20 22 22 19 18 14
21. Indiana (Kelley) Bloomington, IA 79.3 21 15 27 23 21 27
22. Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, DC 73.4 23 30 35 24 19 23
23. Vanderbilt (Owen) Nashville, TN 72.9 25 25 33 25 30 20
24. Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN 71.9 27 20 31 25 45 29
25. USC (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA 71.8 22 28 39 21 30 26

Source: Poets&Quants’ 2012 composite ranking of the best full-time MBA programs in the U.S.

Notes: Rankings for both The Financial Times and The Economist are adjusted to account for the ranks of U.S. schools only for comparable purposes

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