Duke Tops 2014 Businessweek Ranking

2014 Bloomberg Businessweek MBA Ranking

The further you move down the 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek ranking, the more volatility you see. In the MBA programs ranked from 26th through 50th, nine out of 25 had double-digit increases or decreases from 2012, the last time the ranking was published. The big winners in this group: The business school at the University of Buffalo jumped 18 places to a rank of 39th, while Texas A&M’s Mays School soared 16 spots to finish 42nd. The biggest loser in the bunch: The University of Wisconsin’s business school which plummeted 11 places to a rank of 44th.

2014 Rank & School	Index Score	2012 Rank	Change
26. Washington University (Olin)	72.79	31	+5
27. Brigham Young (Marriott)	72.39	32	+5
28. Georgia Tech (Scheller)	72.02	23	-5
29. Notre Dame (Mendoza)	71.55	20	-9
30. Vanderbilt (Owen)	70.62	25	-5
31. UC-Irvine (Merage)	69.02	43	+12
32. Southern Methodist (Cox)	68.77	29	-3
33. Michigan State (Broad)	67.64	36	+3
34. Ohio State (Fisher)	66.90	27	-7
35. Pittsburgh (Katz)	63.92	NR	——-
36. Minnesota (Carlson)	62.15	35	-1
37. Washington (Foster)	61.96	37	——-
38. Rochester (Simon)	61.61	50	+12
39. University of Buffalo	61.65	57	+18
40. Penn State (Smeal)	60.46	38	-2
41. Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	60.17	NR	——-
42. Texas A&M (Mays)	60.14	26	-16
43. Purdue (Krannert)	60.07	41	-2
44. Wisconsin-Madison	60.00	33	-11
45. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	59.71	40	-5
46. Wake Forest	59.45	44	-2
47. Cincinnati (Lindner)	58.31	NR	——-
48. Florida (Hough)	57.94	47	-1
49. Texas Christian (Neeley)	57.65	46	-3
50. Georgia (Terry)	56.83	52	+2

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek 2014 MBA ranking