| Overall Rank | School | Grad Poll | Director Poll | Total Tuition* | Enrollment* | Grads' Years Mgmt. Exp. | School Graded By Grads** |
| Women | Minorities | Teaching | Curriculum | Support |
| 1 | Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, Ill. | 1 | 2 | $91,500 | 22% | 17% | 11.4 | A | A | A |
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Most student-centered of EMBA programs; students praise format, knowledgeable professors, and support staff.
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| 2 | Chicago Chicago | 3 | 3 | 82,000 | 17 | 4 | 10.9 | A | A | A |
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Program recently expanded from 18 months to 20; Chicago campus integrated with campuses in Singapore and Barcelona.
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| 3 | Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia | 7 | 1 | 106,600 | 19 | NA | 7.8 | A | B | B |
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Most selective program; students laud program's curriculum and support staff; new building opens in 2002.
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| 4 | Duke (Fuqua) Durham, N.C. | 10 | 4† | 66,000 | 12 | 12 | 9.0 | B | B | A |
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Flexible, team-oriented program that focuses on real-world practices; also offers global and distance learning programs.
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| 5 | UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, N.C. | 2 | 7 | 54,000 | 16 | 7 | 6.8 | A | A | A |
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Grads praise balance of theory and practice as well as commitment of faculty; new facility and overseas EMBA partner programs.
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| 6 | USC (Marshall) Los Angeles | 6 | 8† | 64,120 | 21 | 7 | 12.3 | A | C | A |
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Weekly class meetings emphasize themes instead of functional areas; grads praise administrators' attention to detail.
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| 7 | NYU (Stern) New York | 27 | 5 | 96,400 | 25 | 9 | 6.6 | C | B | C |
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Program utilizes New York business leaders; new emphasis placed on finance and general management in 2002.
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| 8 | Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta | 11 | 8† | 63,888 | 26 | 9 | 8.8 | B | B | B |
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The 16-month program makes for rigorous study, fewer electives; independent study course allows for one-on-one work with senior faculty.
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| 9 | Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, D.C. | 5 | 24 | 66,600 | 18 | 20 | 10.3 | A | A | C |
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International business focus and overseas residential modules give grads hands-on consulting experience outside U.S.
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| 10 | UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles | 22 | 6 | 60,370 | 16 | 10 | 9.0 | A | C | A |
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Students' seven-month international consulting project needs more focus, say grads, but they praise enthusiastic, leading-edge faculty.
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| 11 | Pepperdine (Graziadio) Culver City, Calif. | 4 | 22*** | 62,800 | 18 | 17 | 8.3 | A | A | C |
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Strong focus on leadership and ethics in business; all profs required to do consulting work to stay on top of the issues.
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| 12 | Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 12 | 10 | 53,000 | 15 | 3 | 6.5 | B | C | A |
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Second-year students mentor program entrants; partner program with a B-school in Mexico City.
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| 13 | IMD Lausanne, Switzerland | 8 | 21† | 66,500 | 11 | NA | 11.3 | B | A | A |
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Three mandatory "discovery expeditions" to business centers around the world; grads rave about international focus.
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| 14 | Purdue (Krannert) W. Lafayette, Ind. | 9 | 15 | 45,000 | 18 | 12 | 7.1 | A | B | A |
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Uses six two-week residential periods; 59% of students live more than 500 miles from campus, praise knowledgeable, experienced profs.
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| 15 | W.Ontario (Ivey) Mississauga, Ont. | 14 | 12 | 42,000 | 20 | NA | 11.2 | B | B | B |
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Focus on general management, case-study method skills; school no longer offers videoconferencing program.
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| 16 | Washington U. (Olin) St. Louis | 17 | 9 | 65,500 | 22 | 0 | 10.1 | B | B | B |
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Offers concentrations in health services management and manufacturing and operations; new state-of-the-art building and popular London session.
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| 17 | Vanderbilt (Owen) Nashville | 15 | 20† | 63,500 | 24 | 4 | 8.6 | C | B | C |
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Offers health-care management concentration; grads laud new director Martin Rapisarda, formerly Purdue's director.
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| 18 | Columbia New York | 55 | 4† | 97,250 | 26 | 15 | 6.8 | D | C | D |
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Grads say classes are too large, and expansion of global program left weekend EMBAs floundering; outside execs are frequent guest speakers.
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| 19 | SMU (Cox) Dallas | 26 | 11 | 55,825 | 16 | 9 | 12.3 | C | B | C |
| Switch to modular half-semesters allows more electives; spouses accompany students on international field trip.
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| 20 | Georgia State (Robinson) Atlanta | 16 | 18 | 41,500 | 32 | 15 | 11.2 | B | A | C |
| Direct marketing targets women; grads note support staff inconsistencies; top corporate users include Georgia-Pacific and BellSouth.
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| 21 | Thunderbird Glendale, Ariz. | 20 | 20† | 51,000 | 29 | 12 | 10.3 | B | B | A |
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No. 2 in international business; required courses include Cross-Cultural Communication and a foreign language, plus class time abroad.
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| 22 | Boston U. Boston | 23 | 27*** | 59,500 | 22 | 5 | 10.3 | B | B | B |
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Curriculum woven across functional areas; ties to Boston business community bring CEOs to the classroom for case discussions.
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| 23 | London Business school London | 33 | 14 | 54,000 | 18 | NA | 6.7 | C | B | D |
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Half the students are from outside Britain; global focus reinforced by two required field trips to places like India and South Africa.
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| 24 | Queens U. Kingston, Ont. | 29 | 23*** | 44,000 | 26 | NA | 9.3 | C | B | C |
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Well-run videoconferencing technology allows students to tune in at 23 sites; grads want more non-Canadian business perspectives.
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| 25 | Minnesota (Carlson) Minneapolis | 35 | 16 | 54,000 | 35 | 15 | 10.1 | C | D | B |
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Most female students in top 25; hiring an executive coach to deal with EMBA career issues; grads want more flexible curriculum.
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*Provided by Business Schools, tuition figures for out-of-state students, where applicable; enrollment figures for most recent class
** Based on a compilation of EMBA Graduate Responses
*** Tie between schools
Research by Jennifer Merritt, Frederick Jespersen, Brian Hindo, Mica Schneider
Data: BusinessWeek, Cambria Consulting |
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