Ranking Business School Reputations

Underperformers in U.S. News’ 2015 Business School Ranking

2014 Overall Rank	2015 Overall Rank	2014 Peer Assessment Rank	2015 Peer Assessment Rank	Institution	2014 Peer Assess-ment Score	2015 Peer Assess-ment Score	2014 Rank Discrep-ancy	2015 Rank Discrep-ancy
79	80	50	48	Colorado (Leeds)	3.2	3.2	-29	-32
84	96	67	65	Bentley University (McCallum)	2.9	2.9	-17	-31
91	96	67	65	Oregon (Lundquist)	2.9	2.9	-24	-31
101	87	50	58	Claremont Graduate (Drucker)	3.2	3	-51	-29
79	92	67	65	Fordham	2.9	2.9	-12	-27
88	85	31	58	Thunderbird	3.5	3	-57	-27
93	100	67	76	Kentucky (Gatton)	2.9	2.8	-26	-24
104	100	93	76	American U. (Kogod)	2.7	2.8	-11	-24
56	65	41	42	Babson (Olin)	3.3	3.3	-15	-23
91	96	67	76	University of Miami (FL)	2.9	2.8	-24	-20
96	76	61	58	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	3	3	-35	-18
52	65	41	48	Case Western (Weatherhead)	3.3	3.2	-11	-17
70	82	67	65	William & Mary (Mason)	2.9	2.9	-3	-17
NA	92	81	76	Illinois-Chicago (Liautaud)	2.8	2.8	NA	-16
37	41	31	28	Maryland College Park (Smith)	3.5	3.5	-6	-13
44	48	34	34	Arizona (Eller)	3.4	3.4	-10	-14
52	48	41	34	Georgia (Terry)	3.3	3.4	-11	-14
79	79	67	65	Syracuse (Whitman)	2.9	2.9	-12	-14
44	40	34	28	Purdue (Krannert)	3.4	3.5	-10	-12
47	35	26	25	Illinois	3.6	3.6	-21	-10
86	87	93	76	San Diego State	2.7	2.8	7	-11

(Source: U.S. News and World Report)

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