Poets&Quants’ Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2012 by: John A. Byrne on December 07, 2012 | 13 minute read December 7, 2012 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit 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 77. CUNY-Baruch New York, NY 12.4 69 NR 50 97 NR NR 78. Howard Washington, DC 12.3 72 59 NR 91 NR NR 78. Arkansas (Walton) Fayetteville, AK 12.3 74 NR NR 51 NR NR 79. Hult Cambridge, MA 12.1 70 NR NR NR 65 31 80. Pepperdine (Graziadio) Malibu, CA 11.0 65 NR 74 81 NR NR 81. Massachusetts (Isenberg) Amherst, MA 10.4 78 NR NR 57 NR NR 82. Hofstra (Zarb) Hempstead, NY 9.5 81 NR 62 NR NR NR 83. American (Kogod) Washington, DC 9.3 84 NR 68 94 NR NR 84. Baylor (Hankamer) Waco, TX 9.2 78 NR NR 64 NR NR 84. Iowa State Ames, IO 9.2 85 NR NR 64 NR NR 86. Willamette (Atkinson) Salem, OR 7.3 88 NR 71 NR NR NR 87. DePaul (Kellstadt) Chicago, IL 7.0 99 NR NR 70 NR NR 87. Rensselaer (Lally) Troy, NY 7.0 NR NR NR 70 NR NR 89. Claremont (Drucker) Claremont, CA 6.0 82 NR NR 75 NR NR 89. Bentley (McCallum) Waltham, MA 6.0 89 NR NR 75 NR NR 91. Miami Univ. (Farmer) Oxford, OH 5.2 77 NR NR 78 NR NR 92. St. Louis (Cook) St. Louis, MO 4.5 NR NR NR 81 NR NR 93. Colorado (Leeds) Boulder, CO 4.4 85 NR NR 84 NR NR 93. Oklahoma (Price) Norman, OK 4.4 100 NR NR 84 NR NR 93. Utah (Eccles) Salt Lake City, UT 4.4 94 NR NR 84 NR NR 93. Virginia Tech (Pamplin) Blacksburg, VA 4.4 90 NR NR 84 NR NR 97. Houston (Bauer) Houston, TX 2.0 NR NR NR 91 NR NR 97. Oregon (Lundquist) Eugene, OR 2.0 100 NR NR 91 NR NR 99. Rochester Tech Rochester, NY 1.2 82 NR NR 94 NR NR 99. Kentucky (Gatton) Lexington, KY 1.2 NR NR NR 94 NR 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 DON’T MISS: POETS&QUANTS’ TOP 50 NON-U.S. MBA PROGRAMS OF 2012 Previous PagePage 6 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 © Copyright 2026 Poets & Quants. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Poets & Quants, please submit your request HERE.