2012 U.S. News Ranking of the Best B-Schools

A peek behind the raw data that drives U.S. News & World Report’s latest MBA rankings

 U.S. News’ 2012 Ranking of the Top 25 Business Schools

2012 Rank & School 2011 Rank     Change
  1. Harvard Business School 2 +1
  1. Stanford GSB 1 —
  3. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 3 —
  4. MIT (Sloan) 3 -1
  4. Northwestern (Kellogg) 5 +1
  4. Chicago (Booth) 5 +1
  7. UC-Berkeley (Haas) 7 —
  8. Columbia Business School 9 +1
  9. Dartmouth (Tuck) 7 -2
10. Yale School of Management 10 —
11. New York (Stern) 10 -1
12. Duke (Fuqua) 12 —
13. Michigan (Ross) 14 +1
13. Virginia (Darden) 13 —
15. UC-Los Angeles (Anderson) 14 -1
16. Cornell (Johnson) 16 —
17. Texas-Austin (McCombs) 17 —
18. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 18 —
19. Emory (Goizueta) 23 +4
19. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 19 —
21. Southern California (Marshall) 21 —
22. Washington Univ. (Olin) 20 -2
23. Indiana (Kelley) 23 —
24. Georgetown (McDonough) 25 +1
25. Ohio State (Fisher) 25 —

Source: U.S. News & World Report 2012 MBA Ranking

(Table of the next 25 top schools on the following page)

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