2016 Poets&Quants’ MBA Ranking

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The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2016 — 26 to 50

2016

Rank

School Name 2015 Rank Index US

News

Forbes Business

Week

Financial

Times

The Economist
#26 Vanderbilt (Owen) 29 72.6 22 (27) 39 (39) 32 (34) 32 (29) 17 (23)
#27 Michigan State (Broad) 26 72.1 35 (37) 22 (22) 27 (30) 29 (26) 24 (22)
#28 Washington (Olin) 23 71.9 21 (19) 31 (31) 36 (35) 39 (37) 31 (27)
#29 Minnesota (Carlson) 30 70.9 27 (27) 27 (27) 39 (45) 34 (42) 33 (34)
#30 Wisconsin 32 70.4 27 (33) 29 (29) 40 (46) 30 (35) 38 (35)
#31 Georgia Institute of Technology 34 68.6 34 (30) 33 (33) 28 (23) 33 (32) 35 (NR)
#32 Southern California (Marshall) 27 67.8 31 (25) 38 (38) 38 (25) 23 (27) 41 (42)
#33 Ohio State (Fisher) 31 66.6 27 (30) 43 (43) 41 (39) 36 (34) 30 (20)
#34 Brigham Young (Marriott) 43 65.9 31 (33) 21 (21) 23 (27) 39 (NR) NR (NR)
#35 Penn State (Smeal) 33 64.4 41 (37) 28 (28) 37 (43) 41 (44) 39 (37)
#36 Maryland (Smith) 35 64.1 41 (41) 46 (46) 33 (33) 22 (24) 32 (28)
#37 Rochester (Simon) 38 62.8 39 (37) 44 (44) 30 (36) 40 (43) 34 (32)
#38 Iowa (Tippie) 37 62.7 45 (43) 26 (26) 35 (55) 44 (31) 45 (44)
#39 Boston University (Questrom) 42 58.5 41 (43) 48 (48) 50 (48) 35 (41) 37 (40)
#40 Texas A&M (Mays) 41 56.5 31 (27) 24 (24) 18 (22) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#41 Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 45 56.0 39 (47) 34 (34) 44 (57) 43 (36) NR (NR)
#42 Pittsburgh (Katz) 40 54.9 55 (48) 35 (35) 53 (44) 46 (50) 36 (41)
#43 UC-Irvine (Merage) 47 51.7 48 (53) 42 (42) 54 (54) 27 (21) NR (NR)
#44 Arizona State (Carey) 36 51.3 35 (30) 47 (47) 49 (49) NR (39) 28 (31)
#45 Southern Methodist (Cox) 39 51.2 48 (48) 37 (37) 31 (32) NR (39 42 (46)
#46 Florida (Hough) 46 51.1 37 (37) 50 (50) 46 (41) NR (NR) 27 (36)
#47 Purdue (Krannert) 44 50.6 47 (53) 32 (32) 42 (53) NR (23) 48 (NR)
#48 Georgia (Terry) 48 44.1 55 (53) 36 (36) 65 (51) NR (NR) 40 (43)
#49 George Washington 49 41.0 51 (58) NR (NR) 45 (40) 38 (46) 47 (45)
#50 Boston College (Carroll) 59 36.3 50 (45) NR (NR) 48 (NR) 31 (46) NR (NR)

Note: * Ranks for both The Financial Times and The Economist surveys are U.S. only, not the overall global ranks

(See following page for the next 25 business schools on the list)