2011 U.S. News Ranking of the Best B-Schools

THE 2011 U.S. NEWS RANKING AND HOW IT COMPARES WITH OTHER RANKINGS

School & Rank P&Q BW Forbes FT Econ
1. Stanford University Stanford, CA 2 5 1 4 7
2. Harvard Business School Boston, MA 1 2 3 3 4
3. MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA 8 10 14 8 13
3. Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA 4 3 5 2 8
5. Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL 7 4 8 22 16
5. Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL 3 1 4 9 1
7. Dartmouth (Tuck) Hanover, NH 6 14 2 13 2
7. California-Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA 9 8 12 28 3
9. Columbia Business School New York, NY 5 9 6 6 12
10. New York University (Stern) New York, NY 12 18 17 13 14
10. Yale School of Management New Haven, CT 14 21 10 16 24
12. Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC 10 6 13 20 28
13. Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA 11 11 9 31 11
14. California-Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA 17 17 19 33 37
14. Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI 13 7 18 28 25
16. Cornell (Johnson) Ithaca, NY 15 13 7 36 33
17. Texas-Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX 19 25 11 52 43
18. Carnegie-Melon (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA 16 15 23 34 21
19. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC 18 16 15 46 40
20. Washington University (Olin) St. Louis, MO 26 40 41 49 45
21. Minnesota (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN 24 28 26 75 63
21. Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA 22 26 32 57 18
23. Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA 20 22 22 34 36
23. Indiana-Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN 21 19 25 57 35
25. Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, DC 23 33 31 38 50

SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report MBA Ranking

NOTES: Comparisons with the 2011 Poets&Quants ranking, the 2010 BusinessWeek ranking, the 2009 Forbes ranking, the 2010 Financial Times ranking, and the 2010 The Economist ranking.