Ranking: U.S. News' Best Undergraduate Business Programs Of 2024

Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., tied for third place in the Best Universities ranking of 2024 by U.S. News & World Report.

50 TOP COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

While the bulk of Poets&Quants For Undergrads readers are likely most interested in rankings of business programs, the U.S. News ranking evaluates schools on a host of other categories.

Its full 2024 Best National University Rankings ranks schools by region, social mobility, best liberal arts colleges, engineering, computer science and several other categories. If you’re still in the hunt for a school in a particular state or that excels in a particular area, the whole package is worth a look. You can find the full ranking here.

In a press release, U.S. News reported changing its overall ranking this year by putting a greater emphasis on social mobility and graduate outcomes. It calls these changes “the most significant methodological change in the rankings’ history.”

“More than 50% of an institution’s rank now comprises varying outcome measures related to success in enrolling and graduating students from all backgrounds with manageable debt and post-graduate success. In addition, five factors were removed: class size, faculty with terminal degrees, alumni giving, high school class standing and the proportion of graduates who borrow federal loans,” says U.S. News.

U.S. News evaluated nearly 1,500 four-year institutions on as many as 19 measures reflecting academic quality and graduate outcomes. The table below shows the colleges and universities that made it into the top 50 for 2024.

2024 Rank	School	State
1	Princeton	NJ
2	MIT	MA
3	Stanford	CA
3	Harvard	MA
5	Yale	CT
6	University of Pennsylvania	PA
7	Duke University	NC
7	California Institute of Technology	CA
9	Northwestern University	IL
9	Brown University	CA
9	John Hopkins University	MD
12	Columbia	NY
12	Cornell University	NY
12	University of Chicago	IL
15	University of California, Berkeley	CA
15	University of California, Los Angeles	CA
17	Rice University	TX
18	Vanderbilt	TN
18	Dartmouth College	NH
20	University of Notre Dame	IN
21	University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	MI
22	Georgetown University	DC
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC
24	Washington University in St. Louis	MO
24	Emory University	GA
24	Carnegie Mellon University	PA
24	University of Virginia	VA
28	University of Florida	FL
28	University of Southern California	CA
28	University of California, Davis	CA
28	University of California, San Diego	CA
32	University of Texas at Austin	TX
33	Georgia Institute of Technology – Main Campus	GA
33	University of California, Irvine	CA
35	University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign	IL
35	New York University	NY
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	CA
35	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI
39	Boston College	MA
40	Rutgers University – New Brunswick	NJ
40	Tufts University	MA
40	University of Washington	WA
43	Boston University	MA
43	Ohio State University	OH
43	Purdue University	IN
46	University of Maryland, College Park	MD
47	Texas A & M University – College Station	TX
47	Lehigh University	PA
47	University of Georgia	GA
47	University of Rochester	NY
47	Virginia Tech	VA
47	Wake Forest University	NC

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