Ranking B-Schools on Student SatisfactionA short history on how MBAs got to grade their schools by: John A. Byrne on January 20, 2011 | 8 minute read January 20, 2011 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit BUSINESSWEEK’S RANKING OF THE BEST B-SCHOOLS ON STUDENT SATISFACTION. School & 2010 Rank 2008 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1. Virginia (Darden) 14 6 7 6 2 15 2. Chicago (Booth) 1 1 5 3 24 9 3. MIT (Sloan) 5 5 4 11 7 19 4. Berkeley (Haas) 8 7 13 10 14 14 5. Harvard Business School 4 8 11 14 4 13 6. Northwestern (Kellogg) 6 2 2 1 1 6 7. Stanford 2 3 1 5 15 8 8. Cornell (Johnson) 15 14 8 2 8 4 9. USC (Marshall) 25 19 23 16 19 18 10. Columbia Business School 7 16 15 17 17 21 11. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3 4 3 12 3 2 12. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 20 20 19 22 13 5 13. Michigan State (Broad) 33 31 NA 28 29 NA 14. Dartmouth (Tuck) 11 12 8 4 12 7 15. Duke (Fuqua) 13 9 12 9 10 10 16. Michigan (Ross) 10 10 9 13 5 3 17. UCLA (Anderson) 18 15 10 7 6 1 18. Yale School of Management 19 13 21 8 22 11 19. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 17 18 17 16 11 17 20. New York Univ. (Stern) 12 11 14 20 16 20 21. Southern Methodist (Cox) 21 NA NA NA NA NA 22. Emory (Goizueta) 16 17 20 19 26 NA 23. Georgetown (McDonough) 26 23 26 32 27 NA 24. Notre Dame (Mendoza) 23 32 35 35 NA NA 25. Georgia Tech 31 NA NA NA 39 NA 26. Indiana (Kelley) 9 21 18 23 20 25 27. Rice (Jones) NA NA NA NA NA NA 28. Washington Univ. (Olin) 24 27 16 21 9 16 29. Texas-Austin (McCombs) 22 24 22 25 21 26 30. Vanderbilt (Owen) 29 25 27 27 23 NA 31. Brigham Young (Marriott) 27 NA NA NA NA NA 32. Wisconsin-Madison NA NA NA NA NA 32 33. Maryland (Smith) 28 22 24 15 25 23 34. Boston University 36 NA NA NA NA NA 35. Minnesota (Carlson) 41 NA NA NA NA NA 36. Washington (Foster) 30 NA NA NA NA NA 37. Rochester (Simon) 34 28 25 24 18 NA 38. Babson (Olin) 32 NA NA NA NA NA 39. Purdue (Krannert) 37 26 28 26 28 29 40. Arizona State (Carey) 35 NA NA NA NA NA 41. Ohio State (Fisher) 39 NA NA NA NA NA 42. Penn State (Smeal) NA NA NA NA NA NA 43. Texas A&M (Mays) NA NA NA NA NA NA 44. Wake Forest NA NA NA NA NA NA 45. Boston College (Carroll) NA NA NA NA NA NA 46. William & Mary (Mason) NA NA NA NA NA NA 47. Thunderbird 38 NA NA NA NA NA 48. Northeastern NA NA NA NA NA NA 49. George Washington 43 NA NA NA NA NA 50. Howard University NA NA NA NA NA NA 51. Case Western (Weatherhead) NA NA NA NA NA NA 52. Tulane (Freeman) NA NA NA NA NA NA 53. Georgia (Terry) NA NA NA NA NA NA 54. Pittsburgh (Katz) NA NA NA NA NA NA 55. Rutgers University NA NA NA NA NA NA 56. Illiniois-Urbana Champaign 44 NA NA NA NA NA 57. Buffalo NA NA NA NA NA NA SOURCE: Bloomberg BusinessWeek Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 2 of 3 1 2 3 © Copyright 2026 Poets&Quants. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Poets&Quants, please submit your request HERE.