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Source: BachelorsDegreeOnline.com

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

London Business School (LBS)

Harvard Business School (HBS)

Columbia Business School

INSEAD - European Institute of Business Administration

Stanford Graduate School of Business

IE Business School

China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

MIT Sloan School of Management

Stern School of Business, New York University

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

IESE Business School

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

IMD

Indian School of Business

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School

Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Esade Business School

Yale School of Management

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Nanyang Business School

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS)

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

HEC Paris

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Haas School of Business, University of California–Berkeley

Manchester Business School

Australian School of Business

Johnson School, Cornell University

National University of Singapore School of Business (NUS)

Cranfield School of Management

Warwick Business School

SDA Bocconi School of Management

Imperial College Business School

McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

University of Strathclyde Business School

Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Cass Business School, City University London

Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario

Schulich School of Business, York University

McCombs School of Business, University of Texas–Austin

Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Melbourne Business School

Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University

Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh

College of Business, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management

Leeds University Business School

Boston University School of Management

Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

Kelley School of Business, Indiana University–Bloomington

Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis

Hough Graduate School of Business, University of Florida

Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University

Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa

Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Foster School of Business, University of Washington

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Cox School of Business, SMU

University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business

University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management

Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Merage School of Business, University of California–Irvine

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

Aston Business School

University of Alberta School of Business

Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business

Durham Business School

Krannert School of Management, Purdue University

Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University

Birmingham Business School

University of Bath School of Management

George Washington University School of Business

Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University

Grenoble Graduate School of Business

Bradford University School of Management

Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College

EADA

COPPEAD Graduate School of Business

University of Edinburgh Business School

Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Wisconsin School of Business

Hult International Business School

University of Miami School of Business

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

Nottingham University Business School

Source: Financial Times

Harvard Law School

Georgetown University Law Center

New York University School of Law

University of Virginia School of Law

University of Texas School of Law

University of Michigan Law School

Northwestern University School of Law

Columbia University School of Law

Yale Law School

George Washington University Law School

University of Minnesota Law School

Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Fordham University School of Law

UCLA School of Law

American University Washington College of Law

University of Pennsylvania Law School

UC Hastings College of the Law

Stanford Law School

University of Maryland School of Law

UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law

Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Temple University Beasley School of Law

Brooklyn Law School

University of Wisconsin School of Law

Boston University School of Law

University of Miami School of Law

Duke University School of Law

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Chicago-Kent College of Law

University of Houston Law Center

University of Chicago Law School

Emory University School of Law

University of Connecticut School of Law

University of Iowa College of Law

Suffolk University Law School

Indiana University Maurer School of Law–Bloomington

SMU Dedman School of Law

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Boston College Law School

Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

University of Alabama School of Law

Seton Hall University School of Law

Vanderbilt University Law School

University of North Carolina School of Law

Cornell Law School

Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law

Tulane University Law School

University of Illinois College of Law

University of Denver College of Law

University of San Diego School of Law

Source: Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Harvard University

Yale University

University of Cambridge

University of Oxford

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Imperial College London

University College London

University of Chicago

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Columbia University

University of Pennsylvania

Princeton University

Duke University

Johns Hopkins University

Cornell University

Australian National University

Stanford University

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

University of Tokyo

McGill University

Carnegie Mellon University

King’s College London

University of Edinburgh

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology–Zurich

Kyoto University

University of Hong Kong

Brown University

École Normale Supérieure

University of Manchester

National University of Singapore

University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA)

University of Bristol

Northwestern University

École Polytechnique

University of British Columbia

University of California–Berkeley

University of Sydney

University of Melbourne

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

New York University (NYU)

University of Toronto

Chinese University of Hong Kong

University of Queensland

Osaka University

University of New South Wales

Boston University

Monash University

University of Copenhagen

Trinity College Dublin

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology–Lausanne

Peking University

Seoul National University

University of Amsterdam

Dartmouth College

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tsinghua University

Heidelberg University

University of California–San Diego (UCSD)

University of Washington

Washington University in St. Louis

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Emory University

Uppsala University

Leiden University

University of Auckland

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Utrecht University

University of Geneva

University of Warwick

University of Texas–Austin

University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

University of Glasgow

University of Alberta

University of Birmingham

University of Sheffield

Nanyang Technological University

Delft University of Technology

Rice University

Tech University of Munich

University of Aarhus

University of York

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

University of Western Australia

University of St. Andrews

University of Nottingham

University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Lund University

University of California–Davis (UCD)

Case Western Reserve University

Université de Montréal

University of Helsinki

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

University of Virginia

University of Pittsburgh

University of California–Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Purdue University–West Lafayette

University of Southampton

Vanderbilt University

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

University of Southern California (USC)

University of Leeds

Pennsylvania State University–University Park (Penn State)

University of Adelaide

University of Zurich

University College Dublin

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Georgetown University

Maastricht University

Tohoku University

Fudan University

Tel Aviv University

University of Vienna

Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

McMaster University

Queen’s University

University of Rochester

Nagoya University

Ohio State University–Columbus

Durham University

University of Maryland–College Park

National Taiwan University

University of Otago

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Stony Brook University

Eindhoven University of Technology

University of Waterloo

University of Sussex

University of Basel

University of California–Irvine (UCI)

Cardiff University

Technical University of Denmark

University of Liverpool

Ghent University

Free University of Berlin

Texas A&M University–College Station

Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

University of Science and Technology of China

Wageningen University

Nanjing University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

University of Groningen

University of Arizona

City University of Hong Kong

University of Freiburg

Université Pierre et Marie Curie–Paris 6 (UPMC)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

University of Bath

University of Aberdeen

Indian Institute of Technology–Delhi

University of Tübingen

VU University Amsterdam

Tufts University

Kyushu University

University of Western Ontario

Queen Mary–University of London

University of Lausanne

Chalmers University of Technology

Newcastle University

Simon Fraser University

University of Florida

Chulalongkorn University

University of Göttingen

University of Notre Dame

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Indiana University–Bloomington

University of Calgary

Lancaster University

KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

Hokkaido University

Indian Institute of Technology–Bombay

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

University of Leicester

University of Oslo

University of Cape Town

University of Colorado–Boulder

Waseda University

Macquarie University

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Brandeis University

University of Barcelona

University of Canterbury

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Technical University of Berlin

University of Stuttgart

University of Massachusetts–Amherst

University of Bern

University of Bologna

University of Reading

University of Antwerp

University of São Paulo (USP)

Dalhousie University

University of Buenos Aires

Kobe University

University of Athens

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Queen’s University Belfast

Michigan State University

Yonsei University

Università degli Studi di Roma Sapienza

RMIT University

Sciences Po Paris

University Louis Pasteur–Strasbourg I

University of Wollongong

University of Karlsruhe

Helsinki University of Technology - TKK

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

University of Dundee

Keio University

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

RWTH Aachen University

University of Tsukuba

Wake Forest University

North Carolina State University–Raleigh

University of Iowa

Radboud University Nijmegen

University of Ottawa

University of Surrey

St. Petersburg State University

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

University College Cork (UCC)

University of Bergen

Victoria University of Wellington

Zhejiang University

Loughborough University

University of Malaya

Curtin University of Technology

Tulane University

University of Technology Sydney

University of California–Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Korea University

University of Exeter

University of Miami

Stockholm University

Université Paris Sorbonne–Paris IV

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Indian Institute of Technology–Kanpur

La Trobe University

University of Victoria

Vienna University of Technology

George Washington University

University of Turku

University of Utah

State University of Campinas (Unicamp)

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)

Mahidol University

York University

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Ateneo de Manila University

Autonomous University of Madrid

Autonomous University of Barcelona

University of Innsbruck

University of Essex

University of Gothenburg

Arizona State University

Charles University

University of California–Riverside (UCR)

University of Hawaii–Manoa

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

University of Bonn

Université Paris–Sud 11 (Paris-Sud University)

Hiroshima University

Laval University

University of Cincinnati

University of Strathclyde

Dresden University of Technology

University of Liège

Flinders University

University of Delhi

University of Hamburg

University of the Philippines

University of Ulm

University of Würzburg

Virginia Tech

Stockholm School of Economics

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)

Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I

Massey University

University of Graz

Darmstadt University of Technology

University of Newcastle

University of Indonesia

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

Iowa State University

University Montpellier 2

Politecnico di Milano

University of Tasmania

École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines

École nationale des ponts et chaussées

University of Southern Denmark

Brunel University

University of Padua

Chiba University

Umeå University

Florida State University

Jagiellonian University

Dublin City University (DCU)

Indian Institute of Technology–Madras

University of South Australia

University of Duesseldorf

Complutense University of Madrid

University of Manitoba

University of Tennessee–Knoxville

Austral University

University of East Anglia

Royal Holloway–University of London

University of Leipzig

University of Kuopio

University Science Malaysia (USM)

Bandung Institute of Technology

Aston University

Gadjah Mada University

University of Cologne

University of the Witwatersrand

City University of New York

University of Chile

University Putra Malaysia (UPM)

University of Tromsø

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Griffith University

University of St. Gallen

University of Konstanz

Dublin Institute of Technology

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Bielefeld University

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

University of Pisa

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Université du Québec

University of Tampere

University of New Mexico

Drexel University

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Colorado State University

National Yang Ming University

Pompeu Fabra University

University of Warsaw

Hanyang University

Howard University

Carleton University

Swansea University

University of Bayreuth

Ruhr University Bochum

Tokyo Metropolitan University

University of Florence

University of Kansas

Universiy of Mannheim

National Cheng Kung University

University of Alabama

University Teknologi Malaysia

Concordia University

Saarland University

Showa University

University of Connecticut

University of Georgia

Nagasaki University

Université Denis Diderot–Paris 7

Yokohama City University

Washington State University

University of Delaware

Yeshiva University

National University of Ireland–Galway

University of Marburg

Loyola University Chicago

Sung Kyun Kwan University

University of Oulu

University of Oregon

Bilkent University

University of Bremen

Istanbul Technical University

National University of Sciences and Technology

Hitotsubashi University

Kumamoto University

Tokyo University Of Science (TUS)

University of Waikato

College of William and Mary

Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille

University of Oklahoma–Norman

University of Jena

Tianjin University

ORT Uruguay

University of Coimbra

University of Missouri–Columbia

Yokohama National University

University of Bradford

University of Jyväskylä

University of South Carolina–Columbia

Goldsmiths–University of London

University of Limerick

Deakin University

Gunma University

University of Naples Federico II

University of Münster

Bangor University

Kasetsart University

Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Duke University

University of Florida’s Hough Graduate School of Business

Indiana University (Kelley Direct)

Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University

Babson College

University of Massachusetts – Amherst: Isenberg School of Management

Northeastern University - College of Business Administration

Walden University - School of Management

DeVry University - Keller Graduate School of Management

Source: CollegeCrunch.org

Harvard University Business School

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business

Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business

University of California - Berkeley (Haas)

Stern School of Business of New York University

McIntire School of Commerce of the University of Virginia

Source: CollegeCrunch.org

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Harvard Business School

Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)

Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)

Ross School of Business (University of Michigan)

Stanford Business School

Columbia Business School

Fuqua School of Business (Duke University)

MIT Sloan School of Management

Haas School of Business (University of California–Berkeley)

Johnson Graduate School of Management (Cornell University)

Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College)

Leonard N. Stern School of Business (New York University)

Anderson School (University of California–Los Angeles)

Kelley School of Business (Indiana University)

Darden Graduate School of Business (University of Virginia)

Kenan-Flagler Business School (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

Cox School of Business (Southern Methodist University)

Tepper School of Business (Carnegie Mellon University)

Mendoza College of Business (University of Notre Dame)

McCombs School of Business (University of Texas–Austin)

Marriott School (Brigham Young University)

Goizueta Business School (Emory University)

Yale School of Management

Marshall School of Business (University of Southern California)

Robert H. Smith School of Business (University of Maryland)

Foster School of Business (University of Washington)

Olin School of Business (Washington University in St. Louis)

Georgia Tech College of Management

Owen Graduate School of Management (Vanderbilt University)

Source: Business Week

Queen’s School of Business

IE Business School

INSEAD — European Institute of Business Administration

Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario)

London Business School (LBS)

Esade Business School

IMD

Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto)

IESE Business School

Saïd Business School (University of Oxford)

Source: Business Week

Methodology:

What sources of data does BusinessWeek use to rank MBA programs?

 

There are three main sources of data: a student survey, a survey of corporate recruiters, and an intellectual capital rating.

 

When does each of the surveys get distributed? How long are they available for completion?

 

The student survey is distributed three weeks before graduation, usually in early May, and is live for three months. The recruiter survey is distributed in early July and is live for two months. The intellectual capital rating is not based on a survey.

 

A third survey, conducted by Businessweek.com, asks schools for statistical information about their programs, and is used to create online statistical profiles. That survey is distributed in early summer and is in the field for about three months.

 

How is the student survey conducted?

 

The student survey is conducted online. Using e-mail addresses supplied by the programs, BusinessWeek (with the help of Cambria Consulting) contacts students and directs them to a survey site where they can complete the survey. BusinessWeek will send out several reminders to ensure an adequate response rate.

 

In 2008, we surveyed 16,704 students and received 7,264 responses, for a 46% response rate. The survey consists of about 45 questions that ask students to rate their programs on teaching quality, career services, alumni network, and recruiting efforts, among other things. Using the average answer for each of the questions and each question’s standard deviation, we calculate a student survey score for each school.

 

How is the recruiter survey conducted?

 

The recruiter survey is also conducted online. Starting with e-mail addresses supplied by the programs, BusinessWeek creates a list of companies recruiting from the programs and identifies a single high-level recruiting contact at each company. This means that not every recruiter supplied by every school will be contacted. In some cases, such as when a company maintains a separate recruiting organization for Europe, more than one recruiting contact at the company will be asked to complete the survey.Then, with the help of Cambria Consulting, BusinessWeek contacts the company representatives and directs them to a survey site where they can complete the survey. BusinessWeek will send out several reminders or call recruiters to ensure an adequate response rate.

 

In 2008, we surveyed 525 recruiters and received 242 replies, for a 46% response rate. Every company tells us how many MBAs it hired in the previous two years and which schools it actively recruits from, and it ranks up to 20 top schools.

 

To calculate each school’s recruiter score, we first use the rankings to determine each school’s recruiter points, awarding 20 points for every No. 1 ranking, 19 points for every No. 2 mention, and so on. We then calculate a numerator, which consists of the sum of each school’s points from each specific recruiter multiplied by the number of MBAs hired by that specific recruiter.