Wharton Sweeps The 2026 B-School Research Rankings Again

The Wharton School in Philadelphia is once again the top research business school in both the North America and Worldwide rankings from UT Dallas

2026 UT DALLAS RANKING OF THE TOP NORTH AMERICAN B-SCHOOLS FOR RESEARCH

Rank University Articles Score Country
1 University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School) 408 198.59 USA
2 University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal School of Management) 330 158.6 USA
3 Columbia University (Columbia Business School) 323 148.31 USA
4 Harvard University (Harvard Business School) 296 137.16 USA
5 University of Chicago (Booth School of Business) 290 130.4 USA
6 New York University (NYU) (Leonard N Stern School of Business) 306 125.15 USA
7 University of Southern California (Marshall School of Business (incl. Leventhal)) 267 118.09 USA
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Sloan School of Management) 291 117.64 USA
9 Indiana University at Bloomington (Kelley School of Business) 275 110.64 USA
10 Stanford University (Graduate School of Business) 237 108.18 USA
11 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business) 230 104.4 USA
12 Cornell University (SC Johnson College of Business, Johnson Graduate School of Management (Incl. Dyson and Nolan)) 239 100.03 USA
13 University of Toronto (Joseph L. Rotman School of Management) 248 98.51 Canada
14 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin School of Business) 227 93.72 USA
15 University of Washington at Seattle (Michael G. Foster School of Business) 214 92.85 USA
16 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Ross School of Business) 201 90.17 USA
17 Arizona State University (W.P. Carey School of Business) 227 90.07 USA
18 Duke University (The Fuqua School of Business) 192 89.26 USA
19 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School) 188 88.92 USA
20 University of Minnesota at Twin Cities (Carlson School of Management) 197 85.55 USA
21 Ohio State University (Fisher College of Business) 190 83.6 USA
22 Pennsylvania State University at State College (Penn State) (Smeal College of Business) 197 83.04 USA
23 Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management) 194 82.72 USA
24 University of Maryland at College Park (Robert H. Smith School of Business) 193 80.43 USA
25 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Gies College of Business) 184 76.34 USA
26 Purdue University (Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business / Krannert School of Management) 174 75.96 USA
27 Texas A&M University at College Station (Mays Business School) 179 75.92 USA
28 Yale University (School of Management) 168 75.69 USA
29 University of California at Los Angeles (Anderson School of Management) 178 73.01 USA
30 Boston University (Questrom School of Business) 175 69.91 USA
31 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza College of Business) 162 64.88 USA
32 University of Colorado at Boulder (Leeds School of Business) 150 63.86 USA
33 University of Florida (Warrington College of Business) 172 62.74 USA
34 University of California at Berkeley (Walter A. Haas School of Business) 141 61.45 USA
35 Temple University (The Fox School of Business and Management) 157 59.2 USA
36 Emory University (Goizueta Business School) 127 58.05 USA
37 McGill University (Desautels Faculty of Management) 141 57.71 Canada
38 Boston College (Carroll School of Management) 128 57.44 USA
39 University of Wisconsin at Madison (Wisconsin School of Business) 144 56.34 USA
40 University of British Columbia (Sauder School of Business) 133 55.06 Canada
41 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper School of Business) 114 53.63 USA
42 University of Georgia (Terry College of Business) 132 52.49 USA
43 University of Utah (David Eccles School of Business) 127 50.7 USA
44 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller College of Business) 114 46.3 USA
45 Johns Hopkins University (Carey Business School) 99 46.07 USA
46 University of Connecticut (School of Business) 108 44.37 USA
47 University of Miami (School of Business Administration / Herbert Business School) 116 44.36 USA
48 University of Houston (C.T. Bauer College of Business) 107 44.36 USA
49 University of South Carolina at Columbia (Darla Moore School of Business) 104 43.19 USA
50 Georgia State University (J. Mack Robinson School of Business) 101 41.37 USA
51 Georgetown University (The McDonough School of Business) 104 40.66 USA
52 Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim School of Business) 110 40.04 USA
53 Rice University (Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business) 89 39.06 USA
54 City University of New York, Baruch College (Zicklin School of Business) 94 38.87 USA
55 Michigan State University (The Eli Broad College of Business) 99 38.02 USA
56 Dartmouth College (Tuck School of Business) 95 37.59 USA
57 University of Arizona (Eller College of Management) 103 37.21 USA
58 University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Haslam College of Business) 96 36.11 USA
59 University of California at Irvine (Paul Merage School of Business) 83 33.98 USA
60 Virginia Tech / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Pamplin College of Business) 84 31.96 USA
61 University of Illinois at Chicago (College of Business Administration) 74 31.89 USA
62 University of California at San Diego (Rady School of Management) 71 30.46 USA
63 Western University (Canada) / University of Western at London, Ontario (Ivey Business School) 75 30.16 Canada
64 University of Rochester (Simon Business School) 66 30.07 USA
65 University of Pittsburgh (The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business) 70 28.47 USA
66 Rutgers University at Newark and New Brunswick (Rutgers Business School) 74 28.32 USA
67 Tulane University (A. B. Freeman School of Business) 73 27.74 USA
68 Brigham Young University (Marriott School of Management) 66 27.01 USA
69 George Washington University (School of Business) 68 26.89 USA
70 University of Iowa (Henry B. Tippie College of Business) 67 26.21 USA
71 Southern Methodist University (Edwin L. Cox School of Business) 64 25.74 USA
72 Universite de Montreal / University of Montreal (HEC Montreal) 73 25.61 Canada
73 University of Oregon (Charles H. Lundquist College of Business) 62 24.89 USA
74 University of Virginia, Darden (Darden School of Business) 68 24.69 USA
75 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (Sam M. Walton College of Business) 57 22.98 USA
76 University of Alberta (School of Business) 62 22.73 Canada
77 University of South Florida (Muma College of Business / Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance) 57 22.36 USA
78 Iowa State University (Ivy College of Business) 60 21.66 USA
79 University of Delaware (Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics) 58 21.45 USA
80 University of Kentucky (Gatton College of Business and Economics) 55 21.44 USA
81 Texas Christian University (Neeley School of Business) 56 21.19 USA
82 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Eugene M.Isenberg School of Management) 49 21.01 USA
83 George Mason University (Costello College of Business) 51 20.33 USA
84 Santa Clara University (Leavey School of Business) 55 19.84 USA
85 University of Oklahoma (Michael F. Price College of Business) 54 19.81 USA
86 University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (Culverhouse College of Business) 45 19.36 USA
87 University of California at Riverside (A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management) 47 19.35 USA
88 University of Nebraska at Lincoln (College of Business Administration) 51 19.32 USA
89 University of California at Davis (Graduate School of Management) 46 19.04 USA
90 University of Virginia, McIntire (McIntire School of Commerce) 46 18.77 USA
91 Queen’s University – Canada (Smith School of Business) 50 18.22 Canada
92 York University, Toronto (Schulich School of Business) 51 18.13 Canada
93 Syracuse University (The Martin J. Whitman School of Management) 50 18.11 USA
94 American University (Kogod School of Business) 38 17.73 USA
95 University of Kansas (School of Business) 52 17.23 USA
96 University at Buffalo / State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo (School of Management) 39 16.76 USA
97 University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business) 48 16.1 USA
98 Florida International University (College of Business) 42 15.8 USA
99 Florida State University (College of Business) 42 15.74 USA
100 Lehigh University (College of Business) 43 15.51 USA

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