U.S. News’ Historical MBA Rankings by: John A. Byrne on April 18, 2012 | 53,512 Views April 18, 2012 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit U.S. NEWS BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKINGS FROM 2012 TO 2001 School 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 Harvard 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 Stanford 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 Wharton 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 4 MIT 4 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 Northwestern 4 5 4 3 4 5 4 4 5 4 5 3 Chicago 4 5 5 5 4 5 6 8 6 9 6 9 Berkeley 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 6 8 7 10 7 Columbia 8 9 9 9 9 9 7 9 6 6 8 6 Dartmouth 9 7 7 8 7 7 9 6 9 10 9 11 Yale 10 10 11 10 13 14 15 15 14 14 13 12 New York 11 10 9 11 10 10 13 13 14 12 13 12 Duke 12 12 14 12 14 12 11 11 11 7 6 8 Michigan 13 14 12 13 12 11 11 10 10 13 10 10 Virginia 13 13 13 15 14 12 13 14 12 11 10 15 UCLA 15 14 15 14 11 16 10 11 12 14 15 12 Cornell 16 16 18 17 14 14 16 15 14 16 16 16 Texas-Austin 17 16 18 18 18 18 18 23 17 18 18 16 Carnegie Mellon 18 18 16 15 17 17 16 17 17 17 18 17 Emory 19 23 27 22 24 20 18 18 19 21 22 23 North Carolina 19 19 21 20 19 18 20 21 21 21 17 18 Southern Cal 21 21 20 20 21 21 29 26 18 20 20 21 Washington Univ. 22 20 19 22 25 29 26 NA NA NA NA NA Indiana 23 23 23 22 20 24 23 27 23 23 21 20 Georgetown 24 25 24 19 22 25 34 27 33 24 24 22 Ohio State 25 25 21 26 27 22 22 21 19 19 24 23 Rice 25 34 39 38 40 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Notre Dame 25 37 31 NA NA NA NA 32 NA NA NA NA Wisconsin 25 28 27 28 29 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Vanderbilt 25 28 36 33 44 34 49 NA NA NA NA NA Arizona State 30 27 27 29 22 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Minnesota 30 21 24 33 27 25 23 23 21 NA 24 NA Georgia Tech 32 28 26 22 29 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Texas A&M 32 32 33 33 29 29 31 NA 23 NA NA NA Brigham Young 34 32 33 29 29 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Washington 35 37 33 26 34 29 29 18 NA NA NA NA UC-Davis 36 28 42 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Boston College 37 34 39 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Boston Univ. 37 34 31 46 40 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Illinois 37 37 42 38 38 37 28 NA 23 NA NA NA Rochester 37 45 27 29 25 36 26 23 NA NA 23 NA UT-Dallas 37 40 50 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Purdue 42 49 36 NA NA NA NA 23 NA NA NA NA Tulane 43 40 53 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Michigan State 44 51 46 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Penn State 44 40 48 40 40 NA 38 37 NA NA NA NA Florida 44 47 39 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Maryland 44 45 45 40 39 25 38 NA NA NA NA NA Wake Forest 44 52 46 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA UC-Irvine 49 40 36 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Iowa 49 40 42 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Source: U.S. News & World Report rankings Notes: U.S. News & World Report rankings are dated by the year in which the ranking was published. U.S. News & World Report began ranking full-time MBA programs in 1990, two years after BusinessWeek’s first ranking. The magazine does not allow access to its historical data, preferring only to show the latest annual results. DON’T MISS: BUSINESSWEEK’S HISTORICAL MBA RANKINGS or RANKING THE RANKINGS Previous PagePage 2 of 2 1 2