Rankings, Rates, ROI & More: The M7 By The Numbers

Chicago Booth is the top school in the latest U.S. News ranking, tied with Wharton. Booth is also the No. 1 school in the Forbes 2019 ranking. File photo

Rankings are a mess these days. Both Bloomberg Businessweek and The Economist were hammered for methodological miscues in 2022, leading to the latter to declare it will leave the rankings game altogether. Forbes recently announced it won’t even do a ranking this year — having last done one in 2019. The Financial Times is all over the place since the top schools — including the M7 — boycotted their 2020 list. Only U.S. News’ ranking and Poets&Quants’ annual aggregate list have remained somewhat above the fray. And and always, the M7 schools sit atop, or very near the top, of both influential lists.