Bloomberg Businessweek released its 2019 MBA rankings this week, and the administration at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business is celebrating! Tuck rose an astonishing 17 places in this year’s ranking to take the #2 spot just under Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. This is Stanford’s second year in a row in 1st place.
Who are this year’s winners and losers?
Poets & Quants analyzed the winners and losers in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking. University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business gained 8 spots last year, and has continued on its rise, jumping another 4 places this year to end up in 5th place.
When there are winners, there are also losers. Eleven of the top 20 business schools dropped in their rank this year. The biggest loser is the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, which fell 9 spots, taking it out of the top 20, to #22.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the 2019-2020 ranking is based on data from 26,804 surveys of MBA students and alumni, as well as recruiters. Participants from each school were questioned on their goals and experiences, salary, and job placement. Businessweek also conducted interviews at business schools worldwide.
Businesweek’s Top 25 MBA Programs
| 2019 Rank | School | Y-O-Y Change | 2018 Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford GBS | --- | |
| 2 | Dartmouth Tuck | +17 | |
| 3 | Harvard | --- | |
| 4 | Chicago Booth | +1 | |
| 5 | Virginia Darden | +4 | |
| 6 | UPenn Wharton | -4 | |
| 7 | MIT Sloan | -3 | |
| 8 | UC-Berkeley Haas | -2 | |
| 9 | Columbia Business School | -2 | |
| 10 | Northwestern Kellogg | +2 | |
| 11 | Cornell Johnson | -1 | |
| 12 | UCLA Anderson | +5 | |
| 13 | NYU Stern | +5 | |
| 14 | Yale SOM | -3 | |
| 15 | Carnegie Mellon Tepper | -3 | |
| 16 | Washington Foster | --- | |
| 17 | Michigan Ross | +1 | |
| 18 | UNC Kenan-Flagler | +5 | |
| 19 | Georgetown McDonough | +1 | |
| 20 | Duke Fuqua | -5 | |
| 21 | Texas-Austin McCombs | +1 | |
| 22 | USC Marshall | -9 | |
| 23 | Emory Goizueta | +1 | |
| 24 | Georgia Tech Scheller | +3 | |
| 25 | Indiana Kelley | +3 |
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