Best Business Schools Ranked – MBA

The best graduate Business Schools are geared towards training students in the latest theories and practicalities of business management, finance, operations and all other aspects of the real business world. The top MBA programs are ranked in this list, in other words, the graduate business schools, which award an MBA – Masters in Business Administration, or more advanced doctoral degrees. The most typical path to a graduate business school is to work for a period of time after college, and then enroll in a graduate business program, with some real world business experience first. Many colleges believe this type of experience is a prerequisite to gaining the most from pursuit of a graduate degree.

Ranking the Best (MBA) Business Schools

Rank	College	City	State
1	University of Chicago	Chicago	IL
2	Stanford University	Palo Alto	CA
3	University of Texas	Austin	TX
4	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	PA
5	Duke University	Durham	NC
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	MA
7	Northwestern University	Evanston	IL
8	Harvard University	Cambridge	MA
9	University of Washington	Seattle	WA
10	Indiana University	Bloomington	IN
11	Columbia University	New York	NY
12	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta	GA
13	Cornell University	Ithaca	NY
14	Yale University	New Haven	CT
15	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	PA
16	University of Florida	Gainesville	FL
17	University of Virginia	Charlottesville	VA
18	Texas A&M University	College Station	TX
19	University of California - Los Angeles	Los Angeles	CA
20	New York University	New York	NY
21	University of Minnesota	Twin Cities	MN
24	Vanderbilt University	Nashville	TN
23	Dartmouth College	Hanover	NH
22	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	MI
25	University of Georgia	Athens	GA
26	University of Tennessee	Knoxville	TN
28	University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa	AL
27	University of California - Berkeley	Berkeley	CA
29	Rice University	Houston	TX
30	Michigan State University	East Lansing	MI
31	University of Southern California	Los Angeles	CA
32	The Ohio State University	Columbus	OH
33	Arizona State University	Tempe	AZ
34	University of California - Davis	Davis	CA
35	University of Notre Dame	South Bend	IN
36	University Of Wisconsin - Madison	Madison	WI
37	Penn State	University Park	PA
38	University of Maryland	College Park	MD
39	Southern Methodist University	Dallas	TX
40	Purdue University	West Lafayette	IN
41	Georgetown University	Washington	DC
42	University of Arizona	Tuscon	AZ
43	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	NC
44	Brigham Young University	Salt Lake City	UT
45	Rutgers University	Piscataway	NJ
46	University of Texas at Dallas	Dallas	TX
47	Iowa State University	Ames	IA
48	Emory University	Atlanta	GA
49	North Carolina State University	Raleigh	NC
50	University of Utah	Salt Lake City	UT
51	University of South Carolina	Columbia	SC
52	Boston University	Boston	MA
53	Texas Christian University	Fort Worth	TX
54	Louisiana State University (LSU)	Baton Rouge	LA
55	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PA
56	Auburn University	Auburn	AL
57	University of Oklahoma	Norman	OK
58	Boston College	Chestnut Hill	MA
59	Clemson University	Clemson	SC
60	Baylor University	Waco	TX
61-75	University of Rochester	Rochester	NY
61-75	University of Miami	Coral Gables	FL
61-75	University of Kentucky	Lexington	KY
61-75	University of Kansas	Lawrence	KS
61-75	College of William and Mary	Williamsburg	VA
61-75	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis	MO
61-75	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	Amherst	MA
61-75	Mississippi State University	Starkville	MS
61-75	George Washington University	Washington	DC
61-75	Florida State University	Tallahassee	FL
61-75	University of Colorado - Boulder	Boulder	CO
61-75	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	IL
61-75	University of Mississippi	Oxford	MS
61-75	Texas Tech University	Lubbock	TX
76-100	University of Oregon	Eugene	OR
76-100	Howard University	Washington	DC
76-100	University of Central Florida	Orlando	FL
76-100	University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV)	Las Vegas	NV
76-100	Virginia Polytechnic University (Virginia Tech)	Blacksburg	VA
76-100	Oklahoma State University	Stillwater	OK
76-100	University of Arkansas	Fayetteville	AR
76-100	University of Cincinnati	Cincinnati	OH
76-100	University of California - Irvine	Irvine	CA
76-100	University of Connecticut	Storrs	CT
76-100	Tulane University	New Orleans	LA
76-100	University of Iowa	Iowa City	IA
76-100	Kansas State University	Manhattan	KS
76-100	University of Houston	Houston	TX
76-100	University of South Florida	Tampa	FL
76-100	Colorado State University	Ft. Collins	CO
76-100	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD
76-100	Florida International University	Miami	FL
76-100	Georgia State University	Atlanta	GA
76-100	University at Buffalo - SUNY	Buffalo	NY
76-100	Wayne State University	Detroit	MI
76-100	Pepperdine University	Malibu	CA
76-100	Syracuse University	Syracuse	NY
76-100	Fordham University	New York	NY
76-100	University of Texas at Arlington	Arlington	TX
76-100	Wake Forest University	Winston-Salem	NC
76-100	Northeastern University	Boston	MA
76-100	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken	NJ
76-100	Rensselear Polytechnic Institute	Troy	NY
76-100	State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY)	Binghamton	NY
76-100	University of Hawaii - Manoa	Honolulu	HI

More information on our RealRank analyses used in creating this ranking can be found on the About page. The underlined colleges link to our ranking profile specific to that institution. If your college is not profiled as yet, contact us using the contact form.

In analyzing the top Business schools we have applied our RealRank^TM methodologies, and also have given a little bit of weight to the undergraduate programs offered in the schools as well. The reason for including undergraduate instruction in a graduate school ranking like this is we believe a more accurate ranking is achieved by looking at the school as a whole, and giving some weight to schools with good all-round programs as opposed to a pure graduate silo program. For example, we have given a small weighting in determining the ranking to rankings for these schools in related majors, such as marketing and accounting.

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What Majors Graduate Business Schools Cover?

The top business colleges typically offer specializations or course concentrations in various aspects of business and finance institutions, or in government economic regulation. Among these areas are:

Financial Analysis
Quantitative Finance and Financial Modelling
Corporate Finance
Capital Markets
Marketing and Sales
Accounting
Business Management and Organization
Economics
Economic Regulation
International Business and Trade
Human Resources
Business Analytics
Public Policy
Entrepreneurship
Business Statistics.

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