Stanford GSB Cruises Into First In P&Q’s 2019-2020 MBA Ranking

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford Graduate School of Business’ MBA program placed first in the tenth annual Poets&Quants composite ranking of the best in the U.S.

The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2019-2020 — 1 to 25

The tenth annual Poets&Quants’ MBA ranking takes the five most influential lists from U.S. News, The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and The Economist 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. Ranks in parenthesis are year-earlier positions.

2019

Rank

School Name 2018 Rank Index US

News

Forbes Business

Week

Financial

Times

The Economist
#1 Stanford GSB 3 100.0 2 (4) 2 (2) 1 (1) 1 (1) 7 (5)
#2 Chicago (Booth) 4 99.6 3 (1) 1 (7) 4 (5) 4 (4) 1 (1)
#3 Harvard Business School 1 99.2 3 (1) 4 (3) 3 (3) 2 (3) 2 (3)
#4 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 1 98.8 1 (3) 5 (1) 6 (2) 3 (2) 4 (4)
#5 Northwestern (Kellogg) 5 96.2 6 (6) 3 (4) 10 (8) 9 (8) 3 (2)
#6 MIT (Sloan) 6 96.0 3 (5) 7 (8) 7 (4) 5 (6) 16 (14)
#7 Columbia Business School 7 94.8 6 (9) 7 (6) 9 (7) 6 (5) 12 (9)
#8 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 8 94.4 6 (7) 11 (9) 8 (6) 7 (7) 6 (10)
#9 Dartmouth (Tuck) 9 93.6 12 (10) 6 (5) 2 (19) 10 (10) 10 (10)
#10 Yale SOM 11 91.1 9 (11) 11 (13) 14 (11) 8 (9) 18 (12)
#11 Virginia (Darden) 12 90.8 12 (13) 13 (11) 5 (9) 12 (17) 13 (8)
#12 Michigan (Ross) 10 89.7 10 (7) 10 (12) 17 (18) 16 (15) 8 (6)
#13 Cornell (Johnson) 13 89.6 15 (15) 9 (10) 11 (10) 15 (11) 11 (16)
#14 Duke (Fuqua) 14 89.5 10 (11) 14 (14) 20 (15) 11 (12) 9 (13)
#15 UCLA (Anderson) 15 88.1 16 (16) 16 (15) 12 (17) 14 (14) 5 (7)
#16 New York (Stern) 16 87.6 12 (13) 20 (21) 13 (13) 13 (13) 14 (15)
#17 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 17 84.5 17 (17) 17 (18) 15 (12) 18 (19) 24 (26)
#18 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 18 82.8 19 (17) 18 (17) 21 (22) 19 (20) 20 (19)
#19 Southern California (Marshall) 22 82.5 17 (20) 21 (33) 22 (13) 23 (31) 15 (21)
#19 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 19 82.5 19 (19) 15 (16) 18 (23) 26 (18) 26 (23)
#21 Washington (Foster) 21 81.0 21 (22) 23 (30) 16 (16) 25 (23) 17 (18)
#22 Emory (Goizueta) 20 80.6 21 (20) 22 (23) 23 (24) 20 (22) 21 (22)
#23 Indiana (Kelley) 25 80.1 21 (27) 19 (25) 25 (28) 22 (29) 27 (27)
#24 Georgetown (McDonough) 23 76.9 24 (25) 31 (35) 19 (20) 17 (16) 34 (32)
#25 Rice (Jones) 24 74.6 26 (23) 26 (32) 31 (26) 29 (21) 28 (30)

Note: Ranks for both The Financial Times and The Economist surveys are U.S. only, not the overall global ranks.

(See following page for the next 25 business schools on the 2019-2020 list)

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