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The Best Undergrad B-Schools

The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce unseats Wharton and claims the No. 1 spot.

Undergrad

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The Best Undergrad B-Schools

With the economy unraveling, the schools that fared the best in this year's ranking were those that landed students jobs.

Top 20
1 University of Virginia (McIntire)
2 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4 University of Michigan (Ross)
5 Brigham Young University (Marriott)
6 UC Berkeley (Haas)
7 MIT (Sloan)
8 Cornell University
9 Emory University (Goizueta)
10 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
11 Villanova University
12 Richmond (Robins)
13 UNC at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
14 Wake Forest (Calloway)
15 New York University (Stern)
16 Washington University (Olin)
17 Boston College (Carroll)
18 Miami University (Farmer)
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20 Indiana University (Kelley)
Mid-Atlantic
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
NR College of New Jersey
68 Drexel University (LeBow)
NR George Mason
65 George Washington University
24 Georgetown University (McDonough)
NR Howard University
44 James Madison University
26 Lehigh University
NR Loyola College - Maryland
35 University of Maryland (Smith)
3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
38 Pennsylvania State (Smeal)
79 University of Pittsburgh
12 University of Richmond (Robins)
56 Rutgers University - New Brunswick
90 Rutgers University - Newark
57 St. Joseph's University (Haub)
NR University of Scranton
NR Seton Hall University (Stillman)
NR Strayer University
99 Temple University (Fox)
11 Villanova University
1 University of Virginia (McIntire)
54 Virginia Polytechnic (Pamplin)
30 The College of William & Mary (Mason)
Midwest
93 University of Akron
39 Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead)
91 University of Cincinnati
69 Xavier University (Williams)
NR Creighton University
71 DePaul University
22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
94 University of Illinois-Chicago
NR Illinois State University
NR Butler University
20 Indiana University (Kelley)
76 University of Iowa (Tippie)
92 Iowa State University
60 John Carroll University (Boler)
95 Loyola University - Chicago
64 Marquette University
18 Miami University (Farmer)
4 University of Michigan (Ross)
52 Broad College of Business
55 University of Minnesota (Carlson)
74 University of Missouri - Columbia (Trulaske)
96 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
73 Northern Illinois University
2 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
47 Ohio University (Athens)
42 Ohio State University (Fisher)
61 Purdue University (Krannert)
NR St. Louis University (Cook)
NR University of St. Thomas
NR University of Toledo
16 Washington University (Olin)
NR West Virginia University
40 University of Wisconsin - Madison

Northeast
28 American University (Kogod)
23 Babson College
33 Bentley University
48 Binghamton University
17 Boston College (Carroll)
43 Boston University
59 Bryant University
78 University of Oregon (Lundquist)
NR Clarkson University
66 University of Connecticut
8 Cornell University
58 Delaware (Lerner)
41 Fordham University
NR SUNY Geneseo
97 Hofstra University (Zarb)
NR Iona College
75 University of Massachusetts - Amherst (Isenberg)
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
NR University of Buffalo
15 New York University (Stern)
27 Northeastern University
36 Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally)
NR Rochester Institute of Technology
49 Syracuse University (Whitman)
NR University of Vermont
South
NR University of Alabama (Culverhouse)
83 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (Walton)
NR Auburn University
84 Belmont University
62 Clemson University
NR Elon University
9 Emory University (Goizueta)
53 University of Florida (Warrington)
98 Florida International University (Landon)
NR Florida State University
NR University of Central Florida
NR University of Georgia (Terry)
100 Georgia State (Robinson)
51 Georgia Tech
NR University of Louisville
NR University of Kentucky (Gatton)
88 Louisiana State University (Ourso)
50 University of Miami
13 UNC at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
85 North Carolina State University
81 University of Oklahoma (Price)
86 University of South Carolina (Darla Moore)
101 University of South Florida
NR East Tennessee State University
82 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
NR Tulane University (Freeman)
14 Wake Forest (Calloway)
Southwest
63 University of Arizona (Eller)
72 Arizona State University (Carey)
45 Baylor University (Hankamer)
89 University of Colorado (Leeds)
67 Colorado State University
NR University of Denver
87 University of Houston (Bauer)
31 Southern Methodist University (Cox)
37 Texas A & M (Mays)
34 Texas Christian University (Neeley)
77 Texas Tech University (Rawls)
10 University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
80 University of Texas at Dallas
NR University of Tulsa
West
5 Brigham Young University (Marriott)
70 CalPoly (Orfalea)
46 Chapman University (Argyros)
6 UC Berkeley (Haas)
NR Loyola Marymount University
NR University of Hawaii
NR University of the Pacific
NR Pacific Lutheran University
29 University of San Diego
32 Santa Clara University
NR Seattle University (Albers)
21 USC (Marshall)
25 University of Washington (Foster)
NR University of Utah

Full-Time MBA

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Top 30 U.S. Programs
1 University of Chicago (Booth)
2 Harvard University
3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5 University of Michigan (Ross)
6 Stanford University
7 Columbia University
8 Duke University (Fuqua)
9 MIT (Sloan)
10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
11 Cornell University (Johnson)
12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
13 NYU (Stern)
14 UCLA (Anderson)
15 Indiana University (Kelley)
16 University of Virginia (Darden)
17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
21 Texas - Austin
22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
23 Emory University (Goizueta)
24 Yale University
25 University of Southern California (Marshall)
26 University of Maryland (Smith)
27 University of Washington (Foster)
28 Washington University (Olin)
29 Georgia Tech
30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)
Second Tier U.S. Programs
• Arizona State University (Carey)
• Babson
• Boston University
• UC Irvine (Merage)
• University of Connecticut
• George Washington University
• Georgetown University (McDonough)
• Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Iowa (Tippie)
• Michigan State (Broad)
• University of Minnesota (Carlson)
• Ohio State University (Fisher)
• Purdue University (Krannert)
• Rochester (Simon)
• Thunderbird
U.S. Programs Also Considered For Ranking
• American University (Kogod)
• University of Arizona (Eller)
• Boston College (Carroll)
• University at Buffalo
• UC Davis
• Case Western University (Weatherhead)
• University of Florida
• Florida International University
• Fordham University
• University of Georgia (Terry)
• Howard University
• University of Miami
• Northeastern University
• Pennsylvania State University (Smeal)
• Pepperdine University (Graziadio)
• University of Pittsburgh (Katz)
• Rice University (Jones)
• Rutgers University
• University of South Carolina (Moore)
• Syracuse University (Whitman)
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Texas A&M
• Texas Christian University
• Tulane University (Freeman)
• Wake Forest University
• William and Mary (Mason)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

Top 10 Non-U.S. MBA Programs
1 Queen's University
2 IE Business School
3 INSEAD
4 Western Ontario (Ivey)
5 London Business School
6 ESADE
7 IMD
8 Toronto (Rotman)
9 IESE
10 Oxford (Saîd)
Second-Tier Non-U.S. Programs
• Cambridge University (Judge)
• Cranfield University
• HEC - Paris
• Manchester Business School
• McGill (Desautels)
• York (Schulich)
Non-U.S. Also Considered
• SDA Bocconi
• University of British Columbia (Sauder)
• Rotterdam (Erasmus)
• HEC - Montreal
• University College - Dublin (Smurfit)
• ESSEC Business School - Paris
• Grenoble Ecole de Management
• Cass Business School
• E.M. Lyon

Part-Time MBA

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EMBA

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Executive Education

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Making the Most of Spare Time

Not everyone has a year or two to devote to a full-time MBA program. Here's the best in part-time MBA, executive MBA, and executive education programs

NRUniversity of Denver
1/11Duke University (Fuqua)
NREmory University
NRFlorida Atlantic University
NRFlorida International University
NRFordham University
NRGeorge Mason University
4/1Harvard University
NRLoyola University - Chicago
NRUniversity of Maryland
16/13Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (Sloan)
NRMichigan State University
NRMinnesota (Carlson)
NRNaval Postgraduate School
NRUniversity of New Hampshire
20/NRUNC Chapel-Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
NR/18Northwestern University (kellogg)
15/NRNotre Dame
19/NROhio State University
11/8University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
NRPennsylvania State University
NRUniversity of Pittsburgh
NRPurdue University
NRRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
NR University of Rochester
NRRice University
NRSt. Louis University
NRSanta Clara University
NRSouthern Methodist University
14/4Stanford University
NRStrayer University
NRTexas-Austin
NRUniversity of Texas at Dallas
NRUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
NRUniversity of Utah
NRVanderbilt (Owen)
NRVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
NRUniversity of Washington
NRWashington University (Olin)
NRWisconsin (Madison)

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