Poets&Quants’ Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2012

Poets&Quants’ Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2012

2012 P&Q Rank & School Index    2011 Rank    BW    Forbes    U.S. News    FT    Econ
26. Wisconsin Madison, WI 69.5 24 34 29 25 37 31
27. Minnesota (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN 69.2 34 33 28 30 35 34
28. Ohio State (Fisher) Columbus, OH 68.7 26 27 34 25 33 21
29. Washington (Olin) St. Louis, MO 68.6 41 31 47 22 30 28
30. Rice (Jones) Houston, TX 68.4 28 36 45 25 20 24
31. Maryland (Smith) College Park, MD 66.3 33 24 38 44 28 32
32. Texas A&M College Station, TX 66.2 30 26 24 32 24 NR
33. Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA 66.1 40 37 36 35 36 22
34. Penn State (Smeal) University Park, PA 66.0 31 38 26 44 22 38
35. Boston University Boston, MA 65.8 36 39 61 37 39 33
36. Brigham Young (Marriott) Provo, UT 63.0 32 32 15 34 50 NR
37. Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY 62.8 39 50 32 37 22 43
38. Wake Forest (Babcock) Winston-Salem, NC 61.4 38 44 30 44 42 30
39. Purdue (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN 61.2 37 41 40 42 29 44
40. Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA 60.6 35 23 43 32 37 NR
41. Michigan State (Broad) East Lansing, MI 59.9 43 35 19 44 39 NR
42. Iowa (Tippie) Iowa City, IA 59.3 45 53 21 49 48 36
43. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL 52.7 44 40 56 37 27 NR
44. Boston College Boston, MA 50.7 47 47 53 37 34 NR
45. Babson (Olin) Babson Park, MBA 45.8 48 42 44 61 52 NR
46. Arizona State (Carey) Tempe, AZ 45.6 46 49 66 30 NR 35
47. SMU (Cox) Dallas, TX 43.9 29 29 25 54 50 42
48. UC-Irvine (Merage) Irvine, CA 43.6 54 43 69 49 43 NR
49. Georgia (Terry) Athens, GA 42.8 42 52 42 57 NR 45
50. Northeastern Boston, MA 40.5 57 51 65 56 46 NR

Source: Poets&Quants’ 2012 composite ranking of the best full-time MBA programs in the U.S.

Notes: Rankings for both The Financial Times and The Economist are adjusted to account for the ranks of U.S. schools only for comparable purposes

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