Best Business Schools
Ranked in 2013 | Best Business Schools Rankings Methodology
A career in business starts with finding the MBA program that fits your needs. With U.S. News's rankings of the top business schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size, and test scores.
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| Rank | School name | Tuition | Enrollment (full-time) |
Average GMAT score
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Acceptance rate
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Full-time graduates employed at graduation
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Average starting salary and bonus
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Average undergraduate GPA
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Full-time graduates employed three months after graduation
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Peer assessment score (out of 5)
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Recruiter assessment score (out of 5)
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| #1 |
Harvard University
Boston, MA |
$53,500 per year (full-time) | 1,824 | ||||||||
| #1 |
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
$57,300 per year (full-time) | 803 | ||||||||
| #3 |
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Philadelphia, PA |
$57,026 per year (full-time) | 1,685 | ||||||||
| #4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
Cambridge, MA |
$57,920 per year (full-time) | 816 | ||||||||
| #4 |
Northwestern University (Kellogg)
Evanston, IL |
$56,550 per year (full-time) | 1,161 | ||||||||
| #6 |
University of Chicago (Booth)
Chicago, IL |
$56,000 per year (full-time) | 1,161 | ||||||||
| #7 |
University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
Berkeley, CA |
$51,422 per year (in-state, full-time); $53,969 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 490 | ||||||||
| #8 |
Columbia University
New York, NY |
$58,384 per year (full-time) | 1,274 | ||||||||
| #9 |
Dartmouth College (Tuck)
Hanover, NH |
$56,160 per year (full-time) | 549 | ||||||||
| #10 |
New York University (Stern)
New York, NY |
$52,828 per year (full-time) | 780 | ||||||||
| #11 |
Duke University (Fuqua)
Durham, NC |
$52,900 per year (full-time) | 874 | ||||||||
| #12 |
University of Virginia (Darden)
Charlottesville, VA |
$46,460 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,778 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 637 | ||||||||
| #13 |
Yale University
New Haven, CT |
$55,050 per year (full-time) | 494 | ||||||||
| #14 |
University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
Los Angeles, CA |
$48,243 per year (in-state, full-time); $54,530 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 737 | ||||||||
| #14 |
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)
Ann Arbor, MI |
$50,000 per year (in-state, full-time); $55,000 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 992 | ||||||||
| #16 |
Cornell University (Johnson)
Ithaca, NY |
$53,796 per year (full-time) | 568 | ||||||||
| #17 |
University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
Austin, TX |
$33,926 per year (in-state, full-time); $48,832 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 504 | ||||||||
| #18 |
Emory University (Goizueta)
Atlanta, GA |
$44,600 per year (full-time) | 338 | ||||||||
| #19 |
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
Pittsburgh, PA |
$55,800 per year (full-time) | 418 | ||||||||
| #20 |
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
Chapel Hill, NC |
$27,400 per year (in-state, full-time); $48,681 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 580 | ||||||||
| #21 |
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
St. Louis, MO |
$47,800 per year (full-time) | 279 | ||||||||
| #22 |
Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)
Bloomington, IN |
$24,478 per year (in-state, full-time); $43,460 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 398 | ||||||||
| #23 |
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
Minneapolis, MN |
$33,230 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,000 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 206 | ||||||||
| #23 |
University of Washington (Foster)
Seattle, WA |
$26,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $39,081 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 230 | ||||||||
| #25 |
Georgetown University (McDonough)
Washington, DC |
$49,440 per year (full-time) | 506 | ||||||||
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