Business School Rankings: Amazingly Stagnant At The Top

So, in other words, U.S. News‘ rankings, whatever they mean, don’t change much. But for the sake of comparison, let’s take a look at the rankings for each of the M7 schools individually over the last 20 years:

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business is remarkably consistent over the last 20 years, coming in either first or second every single time. How does Stanford compare to Harvard? Harvard Business School

With the exception of one year, HBS has also claimed either first or second every single year since 1996. The one #5 ranking is the reason why HBS did not edge out Stanford GSB in the 20-year average ranking we saw earlier on.