Poets&Quants 2021-2022 MBA Ranking: It’s Stanford Again At The Top!

St. Louis University Cook School of Business is ranked 94th among the top 100 business schools in the U.S. by Poets&Quants.

The full-time MBA program at St. Louis University is ranked 77th among the top 100 business schools in the U.S. by Poets&Quants.

The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2021-2022 — 77 to 100

It could be easy to overlook the final quartile of schools on our Top 100 list. But it’s important to remember that there are more than 1,100Ā accredited full-time MBAĀ programs in the U.S. so any business school making this ranking is among the top 10% of all the MBAs in the country. Admission standards at these schools are not nearly as stringent as those at higher-ranked programs and, more often than not, the mainstream MBA corporate recruiters are less likely to show up on campus to hire graduates. But these smaller programs often offer generous financial support to students and are far less costly than their higher-ranked counterparts.

2021
Rank
School Name 2020 Rank Index US
News
Forbes Business
Week
Financial
Times
The Economist
#77 St. Louis (Chaifetz) NR 24.1 72 (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#77 Kansas 82 24.1 72 (68) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#79 Auburn (Harbert) 72 23.5 74 (53) NR (NR) NR (85) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#79 Clemson 88 23.5 74 (83) NR (NR) 86 (80) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#81 Chapman (Argyros) 87 22.9 77 (74) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#81 Baruch (Zicklin) 73 22.9 77 (62) NR (NR) 81 (71) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#81 Denver (Daniels) 86 22.9 77 (80) NR (NR) 65 (83) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#83 Oklahoma (Price) 83 22.3 81 (85) NR (NR) 79 (64) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#84 Kentucky (Gatton) 85 21.7 83 (77) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#85 Binghamton NR 21.1 84 (99-131) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#85 Syracuse (Whitman) 84 21.1 84 (77) NR (NR) 82 (65) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#85 Temple (Fox) 79 21.1 84 (62) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#88 American (Kogod) NR 20.5 87 (99-131) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#88 Univ. of San Francisco NR 20.5 87 (99-131) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#90 Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) 95 19.9 90 (89) NR (NR) 77 (93) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#90 Mississippi 98 19.9 90 (92) NR (NR) 72 (68) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#92 Mississippi State NR 19.3 92 (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#92 Oregon (Lundquist) 97 19.3 92 (95) NR (68) NR (88) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#92 Univ. of San Diego 91 19.3 92 (99-131) NR (NR) 60 (58) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#95 North Carolina A&T (Deese) NR 18.7 96 (99-131) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#96 Belmont (Massey) NR 18.1 97 (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#96 Drexel (LeBow) NR 18.1 97 (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#96 Houston (Bauer) 92 18.1 97 (95) NR (NR) 68 (74) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#99 Colorado-Denver NR 17.5 100 (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#100 Rollins (Crummer) 81 15.1 NR (NR) 51 (44) NR (NR) NR (NR) NR (NR)

Note: * All ranks in the table are the latest for each of the five most influential MBA rankings, even though Businessweek and The Economist rankings were not included in our composite ranking for the first time. Ranks for both The Financial Times and The Economist surveys are U.S. only, not the overall global ranks.

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