Ranking Business School Reputations

Overperformers In U.S. News’ 2015 Ranking of The Best Business Schools

2014 Overall Rank	2015 Overall Rank	2014 Peer Assessment Rank	2015 Peer Assessment Rank	Institution	2014 Peer Assess-ment Score	2015 Peer Assess-ment Score	2014 Rank Discrep-ancy	2015 Rank Discrep-ancy
37	37	67	87	University of Texas-Dallas	2.9	2.7	30	50
61	60	81	87	Rutgers	2.8	2.7	20	27
30	27	50	51	BYU (Marriott)	3.2	3.1	20	24
88	65	93	87	North Carolina State (Jenkins)	2.7	2.7	5	22
58	74	93	96	Alabama (Manderson)	2.7	2.6	35	22
79	76	108	98	Binghamton SUNY	2.5	2.5	29	22
52	58	81	76	Missouri (Trulaske)	2.8	2.8	29	18
58	48	67	65	Temple (Fox)	2.9	2.9	9	17
99	60	102	76	Cincinnati (Lindner)	2.6	2.8	3	16
70	73	102	87	Iowa State	2.6	2.7	32	14
58	52	81	65	University of Connecticut	2.8	2.9	23	13
61	52	67	65	Northeastern	2.9	2.9	6	13
75	74	93	87	Buffalo SUNY	2.7	2.7	18	13
86	87	115	99	U. of Albany SUNY	2.4	2.4	29	12
67	65	81	76	Oklahoma (Price)	2.8	2.8	14	11
79	76	93	87	Texas Christian (Neeley)	2.7	2.7	14	11
23	25	34	34	Washington (Foster)	3.4	3.4	11	9
NA	87	NA	96	Texas Tech (Rawls)	2.6	2.6	NA	9
27	27	34	34	Georgia Tech (Scheller)	3.4	3.4	7	7
NA	80	NA	87	Delaware (Lerner)	NA	2.7	NA	7
104	92	115	99	West Virginia	2.4	2.4	11	7

(Source: U.S. News and World Report)

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