| Top 25 |
| School |
Founding |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) |
1900 |
| Harvard |
1908 |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) |
1908 |
| Columbia |
1916 |
| NYU (Stern) |
1916 |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) |
1920 |
| Maryland (Smith) |
1921 |
| Michigan |
1924 |
| Stanford |
1925 |
| MIT (Sloan) |
1925 |
| Chicago |
1935* |
| UCLA (Anderson) |
1939 |
| UC Berkeley |
1943 |
| Wisconsin -- Madison |
1944 |
| Cornell (Johnson) |
1946 |
| Indiana (Kelley) |
1947 |
| Carnegie Mellon |
1949 |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) |
1952 |
| UVA (Darden) |
1954 |
| Purdue (Krannert) |
1957 |
| Washington University (Olin) |
1958 |
| USC (Marshall) |
1960 |
| Texas at Austin |
1964** |
| Duke (Fuqua) |
1970 |
| Yale |
1974 |
*First MBA conferred in 1935, althouth Chicago's
business school was founded in 1898
**MBA degrees have been awarded at the University of
Texas
since 1922, but the program did not separate from
the College of Business until 1964
| Next 25 |
| School |
Founding |
| Georgia (Terry) |
1923 |
| Ohio State (Fisher) |
1933 |
| Thunderbird |
1946 |
| SMU (Cox) |
1949 |
| Babson (Olin) |
1951 |
| Arizona (Eller) |
1953 |
| Emory (Goizueta) |
1954 |
| Rochester (Simon) |
1958 |
| Iowa |
1959 |
| Penn State (Smeal) |
1959 |
| South Carolina (Darla Moore) |
1959 |
| Michigan State (Broad) |
1960 |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) |
1960 |
| Arizona State |
1961 |
| BYU (Marriott) |
1961 |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1961 |
| Tennessee -- Knoxville |
1966 |
| William & Mary |
1966 |
| Notre Dame |
1967 |
| Texas A&M |
1969 |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) |
1969 |
| Wake Forest (Babcock) |
1969 |
| Rice (Jones) |
1974 |
| Georgetown |
1981 |
| UC Irvine |
1981 |
| Third-Tier |
| School |
Founding |
| Washington -- Seattle |
1917 |
| Minnesota (Carlson) |
1919 |
| Tulane (Freeman) |
1940 |
| Georgia Tech (DuPree) |
1945 |
| Clark Atlanta |
1946 |
| Florida (Warrington) |
1946 |
| Boston College |
1958 |
| SUNY Buffalo |
1963 |
| Boston University |
1964 |
| Case Western (Weatherhead) |
1976*** |
| UC Davis |
1981 |
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