The Top 25 1998 1996 CORP. GRAD. RANK RANK POLL POLL 1. PENNSYLVANIA (Wharton) Philadelphia 1 1 2 2. NORTHWESTERN (Kellogg) Evanston, Ill. 3 2 6 3. CHICAGO Chicago 8 3 9 4. MICHIGAN Ann Arbor 2 5 3 5. HARVARD Boston 4 6 13 6. COLUMBIA New York 6 4 21 7. DUKE (Fuqua) Durham, N.C. 11 7 10 8. CORNELL (Johnson) Ithaca, N.Y. 18 11 4 9. STANFORD Stanford, Calif. 7 9 8 10. DARTMOUTH (Tuck) Hanover, N.H. 10 13 7 11. VIRGINIA (Darden) Charlottesville, Va. 5 8 15 12. UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles 12 18 1 13. NYU (Stern) New York 14 10 20 14. CARNEGIE MELLON Pittsburgh 17 15 5 15. MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, Mass. 9 14 19 16. UC BERKELEY (Haas) Berkeley 13 16 14 17. WASHINGTON U (Olin) St. Louis 16 19 16 18. TEXAS Austin 20 12 26 19. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill 19 23 17 20. YALE New Haven 22 27 11 21. INDIANA Bloomington 15 20 25 22. MARYLAND (Smith) College Park, Md. NA 30 23 23. WISCONSIN Madison NA 17 32 24. PURDUE (Krannert) W. Lafayette, Ind. NA 21 29 25. USC (Marshall) Los Angeles NA 55 18 RELATED ITEMS THE BEST B-SCHOOLS COVER IMAGE: The Best B-Schools TABLE: The Top 25 TABLE: A Report Card for the Top 25 (.pdf) TABLE: The Up-and-Comers TABLE: Best and Worst Placement Offices TABLE: Favorite Hunting Grounds CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: A TALE OF TWO SURVEYS TABLE: The Survey HOW WE KEPT THE DATA UNSULLIED AND NOW, EXTREME RECRUITING CHART: Still a Seller's Market THE MELTING POT STILL HAS A FEW LUMPS TABLE: How Smart B-Schools Avoid Culture Shock IN ASIA, PURSUING WESTERN MBAs--WITHOUT LEAVING HOME (int'l edition) TABLE: B-Schools Go East: A Sampling THE OLD WORLD'S NEWFANGLED MBAs (int'l edition) TABLE: New Directions in Europe's Business Schools TABLE: The MBA Road (.pdf) ONLINE ORIGINAL: STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT THE COMPUTERIZED GMAT Return to main story

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