The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2013 — 26 to 50
Rank & School | Index | 2012 | BW | USN | Forbes | FT | Econ |
26. Ohio State (Fisher) | 72.2 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 36 | 34 | 20 |
27. Rice (Jones) | 70.4 | 30 | 34 | 30 | 41 | 17 | 26 |
28. USC (Marshall) | 69.4 | 25 | 28 | 26 | 37 | 40 | 36 |
29. Maryland (Smith) | 69.3 | 31 | 24 | 37 | 42 | 24 | 31 |
30. Wisconsin-Madison | 67.6 | 26 | 33 | 34 | 32 | 43 | 30 |
31. Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 66.1 | 40 | 23 | 27 | 35 | 29 | NR |
32. Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 65.1 | 24 | 20 | 27 | 29 | NR | 25 |
33. Penn State (Smeal) | 64.1 | 34 | 38 | 49 | 26 | 36 | 40 |
34. Texas A&M (Mays) | 63.9 | 32 | 26 | 35 | 30 | 33 | NR |
35. Iowa (Tippie) | 63.3 | 42 | 53 | 44 | 20 | 35 | 39 |
36. Minnesota (Carlson) | 62.6 | 27 | 35 | 23 | 25 | NR | 32 |
37. Rochester (Simon) | 61.8 | 37 | 50 | 37 | 38 | 29 | 43 |
38. Michigan State (Broad) | 61.7 | 41 | 36 | 43 | 22 | 31 | NR |
39. SMU (Cox) | 61.4 | 47 | 29 | 52 | 31 | 49 | 50 |
40. Boston University | 59.9 | 35 | 39 | 40 | 44 | 46 | 41 |
41. Purdue (Krannert) | 58.5 | 39 | 41 | 44 | 28 | 32 | NR |
42. Arizona State (Carey) | 57.8 | 46 | 49 | 30 | 60 | 42 | 28 |
43. Brigham Young (Marriott) | 56.7 | 36 | 32 | 30 | 17 | NR | NR |
44. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign | 55.5 | 43 | 40 | 47 | 45 | 20 | NR |
45. Boston College | 50.1 | 44 | 48 | 40 | 51 | 44 | NR |
46. Wake Forest (Babcock) | 49.5 | 38 | 44 | 47 | 43 | NR | 34 |
47. UC-Irvine (Merage) | 49.3 | 48 | 43 | 49 | 61 | 26 | NR |
48. Florida (Hough) | 45.0 | 53 | 47 | 36 | 63 | NR | 49 |
49. Georgia (Terry) | 43.7 | 49 | 52 | 52 | 49 | NR | 44 |
50. George Washington | 38.7 | 52 | 54 | 56 | NR | 41 | 38 |
Source: Poets&Quants composite ranking of the Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2013 in the U.S.
Notes: BW = BusinessWeek; USN = U.S. News & World Report; FT = The Financial Times; Econ = The Economist. Rankings for both The Financial Times (FT) and The Economist (Econ) are adjusted to account for the ranks of U.S. schools only for clearer comparisons
(See following page for the next 25 business schools on the list)