Wharton, Chicago, NYU Best For Finance

U.S. News’ 2012 Ranking of the Best Business Schools for Finance

2012 Rank & School	2011	2010	2012-2011 Change
1. Pennsylvania (Wharton)	1	1	—
2. Chicago (Booth)	2	2	—
3. New York (Stern)	3	3	—
4. Columbia Business School	5	4	+1
5. MIT (Sloan)	6	6	+1
6. Stanford Graduate School	4	5	-2
7. Harvard Business School	9	7	+2
8. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	7	7	-1
9. UCLA-Los Angeles (Anderson)	8	7	-1
10. Northwestern (Kellogg)	10	7	—
11. Michigan (Ross)	11	12	—
12. Duke (Fuqua)	12	11	—
13. Boston College (Carroll)	20	18	+7
14. Rochester (Simon)	14	13	—
14. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	21	15	+7
16. Fordham University	14	NR	-2
17. St. Joseph’s (Haub)	24	NR	+7
18. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	13	16	-5
19. Creighton University	21	NR	+2
19. Ohio State (Fisher)	17	23	-2
19. Washington Univ. (Olin)	NR	NA	NA
19. Yale School of Management	17	13	-2
23. Cornell (Johnson)	24	18	+1
24. Fairfield (Dolan)	NR	NA	NA
24. Vanderbilt (Owen)	NR	NA	NA

Source: U.S. News & World Report specialty rankings for finance in 2012, 2011 and 2010

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