The Business Schools Winning The MBA Student Talent Wars

On Harvard Business School’s sprawling campus

Who’s Consistently Getting The Best Student Talent

Rank & School	Score	FT Rank
1. Stanford Graduate School of Business	4.85	4
2. Harvard Business School	4.80	1
3. Pennsylvania (Wharton)	4.42	3
4. INSEAD	4.34	4
5. Chicago (Booth)	4.28	9
6. Northwestern (Kellogg)	4.15	14
7. Columbia Business School	4.10	6
8. Dartmouth (Tuck)	4.03	23
8. London Business School	4.03	2
10. MIT (Sloan)	3.94	8
11. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3.67	10
12. Duke (Fuqua)	3.29	21
13. IMD	3.25	20
14. New York (Stern)	3.22	18
15. Yale School of Management	3.20	17
16. Michigan (Ross)	3.19	24
17. Oxford (Saïd)	3.07	22
18. UCLA (Anderson)	2.97	25
19. Cambridge (Judge)	2.93	13
20. IESE Business School	2.78	7
21. Virginia (Darden)	2.70	32
22. HEC-Paris	2.62	16
23. Cornell (Johnson)	2.58	28
24. IE Business School	2.50	12
25. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	2.41	40
26. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	2.25	36
27. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	2.21	39
28. ESADE	2.17	19
29. Emory	2.04	59
29. Georgetown (McDonough)	2.04	42
31. SDA Bocconi	1.89	28
32. Indiana (Kelley)	1.87	62
33. Vanderbilt (Owen)	1.77	61
34. University of Washington (Foster)	1.64	51
35. Washington University (Olin)	1.45	72

Source: P&Q May, 2015, survey of MBA admission consultants

Note: The scores for each school are an average based on a one-to-five scale with five representing the applicants of the highest possible quality as judged by admission consultants.