Poets & Quants just released its 2019-2020 rankings of the top 100 U.S. MBA programs.
There were some minor changes in the top 10 – most prominently is Stanford GSB climbing two spots, passing Harvard Business School and UPenn Wharton, to claim the #1 position. It’s the second time in 10 years that Stanford has claimed the top slot.
Other highlights include:
- Yale School of Management just barely broke into the top 10 by securing 10th place.
- Purdue’s Krannert School of Management dropped 10 spots from last year, from 38th to 48th.
- Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business jumped 12 spots from 62nd place last year to 50th.
- UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management experienced a massive jump, from 94th to 71st place.
P&Q ranking methodology
P&Q’s rankings are based on the rankings of five highly-influential business publications, and are weighted based on P&Q’s assessment of each ranking’s methodology and credibility. The five included in P&Q’s ranking are U.S. News (weight of 35%), Forbes (25%), The Financial Times (15%), Businessweek (15%), and The Economist (10%). Combining the rankings in this way lessens the irregularities that are frequently seen in a given year. This allows applicants to get a better idea of a school’s overall reputation, which typically changes little from year to year.
Top 25 U.S. MBA Programs
| 2019 Rank | School Name | 2018 Rank | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford GSB | 3 | 100.0 |
| 2 | Chicago Booth | 4 | 99.6 |
| 3 | Harvard Business School | 1 | 99.2 |
| 4 | UPenn Wharton | 1 | 98.8 |
| 5 | Northwestern Kellogg | 5 | 96.2 |
| 6 | Dartmouth Tuck | 9 | 96.1 |
| 7 | MIT Sloan | 6 | 96.0 |
| 8 | Columbia Business School | 7 | 94.8 |
| 9 | UC-Berkeley Haas | 8 | 94.4 |
| 10 | Yale SOM | 11 | 91.1 |
| 11 | Virginia Darden | 12 | 90.8 |
| 12 | Michigan Ross | 10 | 89.7 |
| 13 | Cornell Johnson | 13 | 89.6 |
| 14 | Duke Fuqua | 14 | 89.5 |
| 15 | UCLA Anderson | 15 | 88.1 |
| 16 | New York Stern | 16 | 87.6 |
| 17 | Carnegie Mellon Tepper | 17 | 84.5 |
| 18 | Texas-Austin McCombs | 18 | 82.8 |
| 19 | Southern California Marshall | 22 | 82.5 |
| 20 | North Carolina Kenan-Flagler | 19 | 82.5 |
| 21 | Washington Foster | 21 | 81.0 |
| 22 | Emory Goizueta | 20 | 80.6 |
| 23 | Indiana Kelley | 25 | 80.1 |
| 24 | Georgetown McDonough | 23 | 76.9 |
| 25 | Rice Jones | 24 | 74.6 |
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