Poets&Quants’ 2025-2026 MBA Ranking

Kellogg School of Management’s full-time MBA ranked first in Poets&Quants 2025-2026 MBA ranking for the second year in a row

The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2025-2026 — 1 to 25

The annual Poets&Quants’ MBA ranking takes five of the most credible lists from U.S. News, The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, LinkedIn and the Princeton Review and combines them together using weights based on the soundness of each publication’s methodology. Bringing them together this way diminishes the anomalies that often crop up in a given year and also gives applicants a better sense of an overall school’s reputation and brand value. This year’s 2025-2026 list gives a 35% weight to the U.S. News ranking, a 30% weight to The Financial Times, a 15% weight to Bloomberg Businessweek, and 10% each to LinkedIn and Princeton Review.

2025 Rank	School Name	2024 Rank	Index	US News	Financial Times	Business Week	LinkedIn	Princeton Review
#1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	1	100.0	2 (3)	4 (3)	5 (3)	4 (5)	4 (2)
#2	Harvard Business School	4	96.6	6 (6)	6 (7)	4 (6)	2 (2)	21 (18)
#3	Columbia Business School	7	96.3	9 (12)	2 (2)	9 (17)	7 (7)	13 (16)
#4	Dartmouth (Tuck)	6	95.2	6 (10)	11 (8)	6 (4)	6 (6)	12 (17)
#5	Virginia (Darden)	5	94.3	11 (10)	11 (11)	10 (5)	12 (9)	1 (1)
#6	New York (Stern)	11	93.3	6 (7)	15 (14)	12 (15)	14 (14)	2 (14)
#7	Cornell (Johnson)	9	93.3	15 (15)	6 (5)	8 (11)	13 (12)	5 (5)
#8	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	12	91.9	1 (1)	1 (1)	2 (7)	3 (3)	NR (NR)
#9	Michigan (Ross)	29	89.9	13 (12)	14 (NR)	14 (8)	19 (18)	6 (3)
#10	UCLA (Anderson)	14	88.6	18 (20)	10 (12)	19 (18)	16 (15)	8 (18)
#11	MIT (Sloan)	13	88.3	5 (5)	3 (4)	11 (10)	5 (4)	NR (NR)
#12	Chicago (Booth)	3	87.1	4 (3)	9 (6)	7 (2)	8 (8)	NR (21)
#13	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	16	85.6	16 (16)	17 (23)	21 (19)	23 (23)	13 (10)
#14	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	17	85.2	11 (7)	8 (13)	3 (14)	11 (13)	NR (NR)
#15	Duke (Fuqua)	10	84.1	13 (12)	5 (9)	13 (12)	9 (10)	NR (8)
#16	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	15	83.7	18 (16)	23 (18)	15 (9)	26 (24)	13 (23)
#17	Yale SOM	8	81.7	10 (7)	13 (10)	17 (12)	10 (11)	NR (15)
#18	Vanderbilt (Owen)	30	81.7	18 (20)	26 (NR)	27 (20)	21 (19)	11 (7)
#19	Washington (Olin)	21	81.0	24 (26)	19 (25)	30 (33)	25 (27)	9 (22)
#20	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	19	79.0	21 (25)	30 (25)	23 (16)	39 (32)	2 (9)
#21	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	18	78.0	28 (20)	25 (24)	28 (25)	24 (22)	10 (11)
#22	Emory (Goizueta)	23	76.6	17 (18)	21 (22)	16 (21)	15 (16)	NR (NR)
#23	Washington (Foster)	19	73.4	22 (27)	16 (16)	18 (24)	41 (37)	NR (12)
#24	Southern California (Marshall)	22	72.4	24 (18)	24 (17)	20 (30)	17 (17)	NR (NR)
#25	Georgetown (McDonough)	25	72.2	24 (24)	20 (19)	22 (23)	28 (28)	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. The Princeton Review rank takes into account the Top Ten lists in four categories out of the 18 measured by the Review. The four categories most represent student experience: best professors, best classroom experience, best campus environment, and best career prospects.

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