The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2011

The 2011 Poets&Quants Ranking of the Best MBA Programs in the U.S.

2011 P&Q Rank & School	Index	2010 Rank	BW	Forbes	U.S. News	FT	Econ
1. Harvard Business School Boston, MA	100.0	1	2	1	2	2	4
2. Stanford GSB Stanford, CA	98.8	2	5	2	1	3	7
3. Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL	98.5	3	1	3	5	6	2
4. UPenn (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA	98.0	4	3	4	4	1	10
5. Columbia New York, NY	95.0	5	9	5	9	4	6
5. MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA	95.0	8	10	10	3	5	8
7. Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL	94.9	7	4	7	5	11	12
8. Dartmouth (Tuck) Hanover, NH	93.6	6	14	6	7	9	1
9. Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA	92.3	9	8	13	7	13	5
10. Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC	91.6	10	6	12	12	10	13
11. Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA	90.3	11	11	9	13	20	3
12. Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI	89.2	13	7	14	14	12	19
13. Cornell (Johnson) Ithaca, NY	89.0	15	13	8	16	14	15
14. Yale School of Mgt. New Haven, CT	88.4	14	21	11	10	8	16
15. New York (Stern) New York, NY	88.3	12	18	18	10	7	9
16. UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA	85.0	17	17	20	14	15	17
17. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA	83.8	16	15	23	18	19	11
18. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC	81.7	18	16	16	19	30	28
19. Texas-Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX	81.3	19	25	17	17	24	20
20. Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA	80.1	20	22	22	23	16	18
21. Indiana (Kelley) Bloomington, IN	76.2	21	19	27	23	38	23
22. USC (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA	73.6	22	26	39	21	34	14
23. Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, DC	73.2	23	33	35	25	17	26
24. Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	71.5	30	34	29	28	31	27
25. Vanderbilt (Owen) Nashville, TN	71.1	28	37	33	28	25	21

Notes: The rankings for The Financial Times and The Economist are for U.S. ratings, not those publications’ global or North American regional rankings.

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