U.S. News and World Report released its 2009 rankings of the best graduate schools at midnight, including a list of the top business schools in the nation. Harvard and Stanford tied for first place, each scoring a perfect 100 points. Wharton came in third with 95 points. And in another tie, with 93 points each, Sloan, Kellogg and the University of Chicago shared fourth place.
What’s changed since last year, you ask? Not much. Company at the top is consistent year to year since the statistics U.S. News uses to calculate rank aren’t widely variable. Here are the top schools this year and last:
2009
1. Harvard and Stanford (tie)
3. Wharton
4. MIT, Kellogg, Chicago (tie)
7. Dartmouth and Berkeley (tie)
9. Columbia
10. NYU
11. UCLA
12. Michigan
13. Yale
14. Cornell, Duke, UVA (tie)
15. CMU
2008
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Wharton
4. MIT
5. Kellogg and Chicago (tie)
7. Dartmouth
8. Berkeley
9. Columbia
10. NYU
11. Michigan
12. Duke and UVA
14. Cornell and Yale
16. UCLA
Of note, Stanford moved up into a tie with HBS for the top spot, while Wharton held onto the third place position it occupied last year. Similarly, Kellogg and Chicago jumped into a tie with MIT for the fourth spot, further tightening things at the top (there are now six schools in the ‘top 4′ vs. only four schools last year). The New York schools (NYU and CBS) held on to their slots at the back end of the top 10, while UCLA and Yale moved past UVA and Duke to inch just a bit closer to top 10 territory. But overall, at least where the top-tier schools are concerned, things remain relatively stable again this year.
As in years past, we encourage our readers to use these rankings as just one of many tools when evaluating options for business school. Other publications, such as Business Week, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal also offer useful rankings that, used in conjunction with those from U.S. News, help create a fuller picture of the invididual schools. The Clear Admit School Guides, too, can serve as a valuable resource.
Background on the U.S. News Rankings
The rankings, released each spring, are calculated based on a weighted average of several key indicators measuring the schools’ overall quality, successful placement of graduates and degree of selectivity in student admissions. For this year’s rankings, all 425 master’s programs in business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International were surveyed in fall 2007 and early 2008.
The complete rankings are available on newsstands as well as online. The online rankings include features that allow you to compare individual schools to one another or refine the results to filter out schools by location, programs, cost, size and rank.
Extensive profiles of each school, as well as more in-depth data regarding admissions (average GMAT scores, undergrad GPA, etc.), academics, student body, placement success (average salary, percent of grads with jobs at graduation) and more is available as part of a premium online subscription package.
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