Surprises In U.S. News' 2017 MBA Ranking

U.S. NEWS 2017 MBA RANKING

2017 Rank & School	Index #	2016 Rank	Index #	Change
27. Ohio State (Fisher)	70	27	65	——-
27. Washington (Foster)	79	27	65	——–
29. Georgia Tech (Scheller)	68	34	63	+5
29. Rice (Jones)	68	25	69	-4
29. Notre Dame (Mendoza)	68	25	69	-4
32. Temple (Fox)	56	41	57	+9
32. Minnesota (Carlson)	65	27	65	-5
34. Brigham Young (Marriott)	66	31	64	-3
34. Wisconsin-Madison	66	27	65	+7
36. Penn State (Smeal)	65	41	57	+5
37. Michigan State (Broad)	64	35	62	-2
38. Texas A&M (Mays)	63	31	64	-7
38. Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	63	37	61	-1
40. Florida (Hough)	62	37	61	-3
40. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	62	39	60	-1
42. UC-Davis	61	45	56	+3
43. Rochester (Simon)	60	39	60	-4
44. Boston College (Carroll)	59	50	53	+7
44. Boston Univ. (Questrom)	59	41	57	-3
44. UC-Irvine (Merage)	59	48	54	+4
47. Maryland (Smith)	58	41	57	-6
48. Georgia (Terry)	57	55	49	+7
49. Arizona (Eller)	56	60	46	+11
50. Purdue (Krannert)	55	47	55	+3

Source: U.S. News & World Report 2017 MBA Ranking

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