Stanford Returns To No. 1 In 2026 U.S. News MBA Ranking As Volatility Ripples Across The List

Texas-Dallas Jindal School of Management vaulted 8 spots in this year’s U.S. News MBA ranking, landing in a tie (With Emory Goizueta) for 23rd, the Texas school’s highest-ever placement

U.S. NEWS’ 2026 BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS RANKING, 1-25

2026 Rank	School Name	Y-O-Y Change	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
1	Stanford University	+1	2	1	6	3	1	1
2	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	-1	1	1	3	1	2	1
3	University of Chicago (Booth)	+1	4	3	1	1	3	3
4	Harvard University	+2	6	6	5	5	5	6
4	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	-2	2	3	2	3	4	3
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)	-1	5	5	4	5	5	5
7	Columbia University	+2	9	12	11	8	7	8
7	New York University (Stern)	-1	6	7	10	12	10	10
9	Dartmouth College (Tuck)	-3	6	10	6	11	10	12
10	University of California, Berkeley (Haas)	+1	11	7	11	8	7	7
11	University of Virginia (Darden)	0	11	10	14	14	13	11
11	Yale University	-1	10	7	8	7	9	9
13	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)	0	13	12	8	10	13	12
14	Duke University (Fuqua)	-1	13	12	11	12	12	12
15	Cornell University (Johnson)	0	15	15	15	15	15	15
16	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	+2	18	16	18	16	16	19
16	Vanderbilt University (Owen)	+2	18	20	27	25	22	21
18	University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)	0	18	20	19	17	18	16
18	University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)	-2	16	16	20	18	18	18
20	University of Washington (Foster)	+2	22	27	20	22	22	20
21	Indiana University (Kelley)	+1	22	20	22	22	23	23
21	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)	+7	28	20	22	19	20	20
23	Emory University (Goizueta)	-6	17	18	17	21	26	22
23	The University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal)	+8	31	38	27	29	31	33
25	University of Georgia (Terry)	+4	29	27	31	38	39	33
25	University of Southern California (Marshall)	-1	24	18	15	19	16	17

Source: U.S. News

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