Poets&Quant's 2024-2025 MBA Ranking: For The First Time Ever, Kellogg Takes First

Boston College’s Carroll School of Management had a tough rankings year. The school’s full-time MBA program dropped 15 places to finish 51st best in the U.S.

The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2024-2025 — 51 to 75

This third group of schools represents some of the very best hidden gems in MBA education. Typically, these are smaller and more intimate programs at excellent business schools. They are less likely to rank on all five of the most influential rankings but have strong reputations nonetheless. And many of these schools open the door to companies that are major players in their geographies.

2024 Rank	School Name	2023 Rank	Index	US News	Financial Times	Business Week	LinkedIn	Princeton Review
#51	Boston College (Carroll)	36	33.6	46 (42)	NR (38)	51 (47)	42 (39)	NR (NR)
#52	Hult International	92	31.1	NR (NR)	40 (NR)	67 (60)	31 (NR)	NR (NR)
#53	Utah (Eccles)	55	30.9	38 (48)	NR (NR)	46 (54)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#54	Texas Christian (Neeley)	57	30.3	44 (50)	NR (NR)	36 (42)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#54	Baruch (Zicklin)	51	30.3	53 (49)	NR (NR)	52 (48)	46 (45)	NR (NR)
#56	Pittsburgh (Katz)	52	27.4	47 (86)	NR (41)	48 (49)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#57	Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	62	26.7	47 (55)	NR (NR)	53 (63)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#58	Baylor (Hankamer)	60	22.8	57 (60)	NR (NR)	55 (50)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#59	University of Miami	73	21.8	62 (75)	NR (NR)	50 (58)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#60	UC-Davis	45	20.6	57 (55)	NR (46)	69 (43)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#61	Tulane (Freeman)	60	20.5	62 (62)	NR (NR)	58 (55)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#62	Kentucky (Gatton)	66	19.7	60 (63)	NR (NR)	68 (71)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#63	NC State (Poole)	75	19.3	66 (78)	NR (NR)	57 (57)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#64	Syracuse (Whitman)	68	18.3	66 (63)	NR (NR)	63 (61)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#65	Iowa State	67	18.2	50 (51)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#66	Arizona (Eller)	69	18.2	50 (53)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#67	Colorado (Leeds)	54	16.5	71 (60)	NR (NR)	66 (64)	NR (36)	NR (NR)
#68	Alabama (Manderson)	72	16.4	55 (55)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (50)
#69	Houston (Bauer)	64	16.1	56 (63)	NR (NR)	NR (55)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#70	South Carolina (Moore)	69	15.7	57 (55)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#71	Buffalo (SUNY)	76	15.6	74 (73)	NR (NR)	62 (69)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#72	Denver (Daniels)	65	14.7	87 (68)	NR (NR)	71 (NR)	51 (49)	NR (NR)
#73	Kansas	87	14.6	60 (78)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#74	Oklahoma (Price)	83	13.1	82 (86)	NR (NR)	60 (70)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)
#75	American (Kogod)	NR	12.6	85 (122)	NR (NR)	56 (62)	NR (NR)	NR (NR)

Note: * All ranks in the table are the latest for each of the five most influential MBA rankings. Ranks for both The Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek surveys are U.S. only, not the overall global ranks.

(See the following page for the next 25 business schools on the 2024-2025 list)