2012 BusinessWeek Corrected MBA Ranking

Corrected 2012 BusinessWeek Top MBA Programs in the U.S.

2012 Rank & School	Index Score	2010 Ranking	MBA Satisfaction	Recruiter Satisfaction	Intellectual Cap Rank
26. Texas A&M (Mays)	69.63	30	31	24	44
27. Ohio State (Fisher)	69.58	32	35	22	23
28. USC (Marshall)	69.52	26	25	32	36
29. SMU (Cox)	69.46	12	26	36	33
30. Georgetown	68.08	33	27	35	38
31. Washington Univ.	66.13	40	15	51	7
32. Brigham Young	65.65	27	36	21	51
33. Wisconsin-Madison	64.87	34	32	39	27
34. Rice (Jones)	64.44	29	30	43	21
35. Minnesota (Carlson)	64.39	28	42	25	10
36. Michigan State (Broad)	63.57	20	33	48	41
37. Washington (Foster)	62.65	31	37	30	35
38. Penn State (Smeal)	58.93	44	34	41	34
39. Boston Univ.	58.49	38	41	28	47
40. Illinois-Urbana	57.96	46	46	26	42
41. Purdue (Krannert)	57.90	41	43	33	40
42. Babson (Olin)	56.55	39	38	37	55
43. UC-Irvine (Merage)	53.79	NR	39	50	15
44. Wake Forest	51.48	48	44	40	62
45. Thunderbird	50.74	45	50	29	59
46. Texas Christian	50.12	NR	40	47	45
47. Florida (Hough)	46.43	NR	47	49	30
48. Boston (Carroll)	46.14	50	58	42	29
49. Arizona State (Carey)	45.99	49	45	53	48
50. Rochester (Simon)	45.25	43	53	46	26

Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek

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