Wharton Dislodges Harvard To Top 2017 P&Q MBA Ranking

The Definitive List Of The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2017 — 26 to 50

2017

Rank

School Name 2016 Rank Index US

News

Forbes Business

Week

Financial

Times

The Economist
#26 Southern California (Marshall) 32 74.0 24 (31) 33 (38) 30 (38) 23 (23) 28 (41)
#27 Georgia Institute of Technology 31 72.6 29 (34) 30 (33) 28 (28) 29 (33) 26 (35)
#28 Washington (Olin) 28 71.7 21 (21) 35 (31) 36 (36) 35 (39) 30 (31)
#29 Michigan State (Broad) 27 70.6 37 (35) 29 (22) 25 (27) 27 (29) 32 (24)
#30 Arizona State (Carey) 44 68.6 25 (35) 40 (47) 47 (49) 26 (NR) 31 (28)
#31 Minnesota (Carlson) 29 68.2 32 (27) 27 (27) 39 (39) 48 (34) 22 (33)
#32 Wisconsin 30 68.1 34 (27) 24 (40) 43 (29) 33 (30) 40 (38)
#33 Vanderbilt (Owen) 26 67.5 25 (22) 49 (39) 34 (32) 40 (32) 18 (17)
#34 Ohio State (Fisher) 33 66.4 27 (27) 47 (43) 37 (41) 31 (36) 36 (30)
#34 Brigham Young (Marriott) 34 66.4 34 (31) 19 (21) 23 (23) 33 (39) NR (NR)
#36 Penn State (Smeal) 35 66.2 36 (41) 29 (28) 25 (37) 49 (41) 42 (39)
#37 Rochester (Simon) 37 62.5 43 (39) 37 (44) 33 (30) 38 (40) 39 (34)
#38 Purdue (Krannert) 47 60.9 50 (47) 28 (32) 38 (42) 36 (NR) 49 (48)
#39 UC-Irvine (Merage) 43 59.8 44 (48) 41 (42) 51 (54) 30 (27) 38 (NR)
#40 Maryland (Smith) 36 59.4 47 (41) 46 (46) 40 (33) 25 (22) 43 (32)
#41 Boston University (Questrom) 39 56.8 44 (41) 48 (48) 49 (50) 42 (35) 35 (37)
#42 Pittsburgh (Katz) 42 55.1 53 (55) 39 (35) 52 (53) 45 (46) 34 (36)
#43 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 53 54.8 38 (37) 44 (NR) 31 (29) 50 (NR) NR (NR)
#44 Texas A&M (Mays) 40 54.5 38 (31) 20 (24) 22 (18) NR (NR) NR (NR)
#45 Iowa (Tippie) 38 53.3 64 (45) 34 (26) 41 (35) 44 (44) 44 (45)
#46 Boston College (Carroll) 50 50.3 44 (50) 51 (NR) 44 (48) 41 (31) NR (NR)
#47 Southern Methodist (Cox) 45 49.9 52 (48) 38 (37) 32 (31) NR (NR) 37 (42)
#48 Temple (Fox) 51 47.8 32 (41) 60 (64) NR (NR) 51 (NR) 45 (43)
#49 Rutgers Business School 67 47.6 50 (53) 52 (NR) 50 (52) 37 (NR) NR (NR)
#50 Georgia (Terry) 48 44.6 48 (55) 50 (36) 54 (65) NR (NR) 41 (40)

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 list)

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