Sunday, July 20, 2008


Since 1988, Business Week has ranked MBA programs every two years. Between rankings, B-schools have changed deans, altered curriculums, stressed new expertise among their grads, and attracted or lost recruiters. Such shifts have prompted interesting moves in the magazine's B-school rankings.

Now you can see how the leading U.S. programs have fared over the years, then take a moment to examine which B-schools are on an upward climb, or a downward spiral. And tell the B-School community what you think by visiting our B-School Forums!


 
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School (U.S.)  2004 
 top 30 
 2002 
 top 30 
 2000 
 top 30 
 1998 
 top 25 
 1996 
 top 25 
 1994 
 top 20 
 1992 
 top 20 
 1990 
 top 20 
 1988 
 top 20 
Babson 26 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
UCLA 14 16 12 12 12 9 16 10 16
California Berkeley 17 13 18 16 13 19 18 19 17
Carnegie Mellon 15 19 14 14 17 14 17 9 13
Chicago 2 2 10 3 8 3 2 4 11
Columbia 8 7 7 6 6 8 9 8 14
Cornell 7 11 8 8 18 15 14 16 5
Dartmouth 10 10 16 10 10 13 6 6 3
Duke 11 9 5 7 11 11 12 13 10
Emory 20 22 28 -- -- -- -- -- --
Georgetown 25 30 26 -- -- -- -- -- --
Georgia Tech -- -- 30 -- -- -- -- -- --
Harvard 5 3 3 5 4 5 3 3 2
Indiana 18 20 20 21 15 7 8 15 12
Maryland 28 25 27 22 -- -- -- -- --
MIT 9 6 4 15 9 10 13 11 15
Michigan State -- 23 29 -- -- -- -- -- --
Michigan 6 8 6 4 2 6 5 7 6
New York University 13 15 13 13 14 16 15 17 18
North Carolina 16 18 15 19 19 18 10 12 8
Northwestern 1 1 2 2 3 2 1 1 1
Notre Dame 24 29 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Pennsylvania 3 5 1 1 1 1 4 2 4
Purdue 21 26 25 24 -- 20 -- -- --
Rochester 29 27 -- -- 21 -- -- 20 20
Southern California 27 17 24 25 -- -- -- -- --
Southern Methodist -- -- -- -- 23 -- -- -- --
Stanford 4 4 11 9 7 4 7 5 9
Texas Austin 19 21 17 18 20 17 -- 18 --
Thunderbird -- -- -- -- 25 -- -- -- --
Vanderbilt 30 28 -- -- 24 -- 19 -- --
Virginia 12 12 9 11 5 12 11 14 7
Washington University 23 24 23 17 16 -- 20 -- --
Wisconsin -- -- -- 23 -- -- -- -- --
Yale 22 14 19 20 22 -- -- -- 19
Click any year to reorder rankings
School (Non-U.S.)  2004 
 top 10 
 2002 
 top 10 
 2000 
 top 7 
Erasmus -- 7 6
ESADE 4 -- --
HEC 8 9 --
HEC Montreal 10 -- --
IESE 7 8 3
IMD 2 3 4
INSEAD 3 1 1
London Business School 5 4 2
Queens University 1 2 --
Rotman 9 5 7
Western Ontario 6 6 5
York -- 10 --
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