U.S. News MBA Ranking

U.S. News & World Report offers one of the world’s most comprehensive school ranking systems available, highlighting hundreds of business schools in the United States. The annually released U.S. News MBA ranking organizes school programs according to peer and recruiter assessment, career success, and GMAT/GRE scores into a weighted average.

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Check out the 2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Business Schools” rankings released on April 9, 2024 below. (2023-24 ranking in parentheses, where noted).

Ranking	School
1 (tie)	Stanford GSB (6 tie)
1 (tie)	The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (3)
3 (tie)	University of Chicago Booth School of Business (1)
3 (tie)	Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management (2)
5	MIT Sloan School of Management (4)
6	Harvard Business School (5)
7 (tie)	Yale School of Management (8 tie)
7 (tie)	NYU Stern School of Business (10)
7 (tie)	UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (11 tie)
10 (tie)	Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business (6 tie)
10 (tie)	UVA Darden School of Business (14)
12 (tie)	Columbia Business School (11 tie)
12 (tie)	University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business (8 tie)
12 (tie)	Duke University Fuqua School of Business (11 tie)
15	Cornell University SC Johnson Graduate School of Management (15 tie)
16 (tie)	Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business (18)
16 (tie)	UT Austin McCombs School of Business (20 tie)
18 (tie)	USC Marshall School of Business (15 tie)
18 (tie)	Emory University Goizueta School of Business (17)
20 (tie)	University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School (22 tie)
20 (tie)	UCLA Anderson School of Management (19)
20 (tie)	Indiana University Kelley School of Business (22 tie)
20 (tie)	Owen Graduate School of Business of Vanderbilt University (27 tie)
24	Georgetown University McDonough School of Business (24 tie)
25	Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business (26)
26	Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School (37 tie)
27 (tie)	UW Foster School of Business (20 tie)
27 (tie)	University of Georgia Terry College of Business (31 tie)
29	Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business (24 tie)
30 (tie)	Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business
30 (tie)	Notre Dame University Mendoza College of Business (30)
32 (tie)	Arizona State University W.P. School of Business (35 tie)
32 (tie)	University of Rochester Simon Business School (27 tie)
34	SMU Cox School of Business (33 tie)
35	University of Minnesota Curtis L. Carlson School of Management (31 tie)
36	University of Florida Warrington College of Business (40 tie)
37	Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University (35 tie)
38 (tie)	UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management (27 tie)
38 (tie)	The David Eccles School of Business at University of Utah
40	The Raymond A. Mason School of Business at College of William and Mary
41 (tie)	Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University (33 tie)
41 (tie)	University of Maryland Smith
43	University of Wisconsin School of Business–Madison (40 tie)
44 (tie)	UC Irvine Merage School of Business (37 tie)
44 (tie)	TCU Neeley School of Business
46	Boston College Carroll School of Management
47 (tie)	University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
47 (tie)	Mays Business School at Texas A&M University–College Station
47 (tie)	The Haslam College of Business at University of Tennessee–Knoxville
50 (tie)	Iowa State University Ivy College of Business
50 (tie)	Boston University Questrom School of Business
50 (tie)	University of Arizona Eller College of Management

MBA Applywire

April 9, 2024 2:43pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cornell / Johnson, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Toronto / Rotman, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Director of operations

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Companies: Bain , Booz Allen Hamilton , BCG , Deloitte , McKinsey , PWC

GMAT: 735

GPA: 3.35

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: Montreal

Post MBA Location: New York

April 9, 2024 1:27pm ET

Applying: Harvard Business School

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: CEO

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. HF, Commercial Banking, Media, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Companies: Ernst & Young , Bank of America , Facebook , Google , IBM , Microsoft , Oracle , First Round Capital , Kleiner Perkins , NEA , Bain Capital , Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Group , TPG , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Asset Management , Bank of America , 21st Century Fox , Walt Disney

GMAT: 640

GPA: 3.41

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Malaysia

Post MBA Location: USA

Notes:

My designation is CEO IJM CORP BHD, Malaysia. It is my futute prospect career. I want MBA for that career.

April 9, 2024 7:33am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Emory / Goizueta, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Product Manager

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology Companies: Amazon , Facebook , Google

GPA: 3.63

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: CA

Notes:

Already working as a product manager. Left my job recently to take a break. before going to business school. Looking to use B-school to transition into a role of Director of Product Management/Strategy.

April 9, 2024 6:50am ET

Applying: Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, U. Chicago Booth, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: M&A Paralegal

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , Booz Allen Hamilton , BCG , Deloitte , McKinsey

GRE: 330

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 8

Location: Phoenix

Post MBA Location: New York

Notes:

8 year experience as M&A paralegal that worked for a nonprofit, large international law firm, a regional bank and a private equity firm. My work includes SEC compliance, capital raising, managing the diligence phase of an acquisition, and frequent contact with executive leadership to quantify status updates. I need an MBA so I can pivot into M&A consulting. One day, I hope to either work as an executive at a company or perhaps start my own M&A consulting firm.
My extracurricular activities is long but I coordinated 5 different community nonprofits that focused on affordable housing and economic development in blighted communities. I also served on a community advisory council for a local hospital.

April 8, 2024 5:42pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Indiana / Kelley, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, UPenn / Wharton, UT Austin / McCombs, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Pre-MBA Career: Operations Management, Government, Higher Education

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Non Profit/SI, Other Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey

GPA: 2.4

Years of Work Experience: 3

Notes:

Prospective Fall 2028 applicant looking to get ahead of the curve by seeking advice early to strengthen application...

+Graduated from a rigorous Service Academy with a 2.4 GPA despite personal and medical challenges.
+In order to offset low UGPA, planning to attain CFP and PMP certification, complete an MPA/M.S.Ed, establish for-profit and non-profit organizations, score high on GMAT, and accumulate more work experience.
+Currently researching MBA admission strategies that cover taking extra courses, building a personal brand, leveraging diversity and unique background, connecting with faculty, and more outside-the-box approaches.

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