Best Business Schools
Ranked in 2013 | Best Business Schools Rankings Methodology
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| Rank | School name | Tuition | Enrollment (full-time) | Additional data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Harvard University
Boston, MA |
$53,500 per year (full-time) | 1,824 |
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| #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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