Best Business Schools
Ranked in 2012 | Best Business Schools Rankings Methodology
U.S. News surveyed 441 M.B.A. programs to get the information used in the ranking of top business schools.
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#1 |
Boston, MA |
Full-time: $51,200 per year |
1,808 |
#1 |
Stanford, CA |
Full-time: $55,200 per year |
803 |
#3 |
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA |
Full-time: $53,926 per year |
1,669 |
#4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA |
Full-time: $52,628 per year |
804 |
#4 |
Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL |
Full-time: $54,000 per year |
1,201 |
#4 |
Chicago, IL |
Full-time: $53,400 per year |
1,160 |
#7 |
University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA |
In-state, full-time: $46,416 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $53,396 per year |
492 |
#8 |
New York, NY |
Full-time: $55,868 per year |
1,264 |
#9 |
Hanover, NH |
Full-time: $53,490 per year |
547 |
#10 |
New Haven, CT |
Full-time: $52,750 per year |
475 |
#11 |
New York, NY |
Full-time: $48,320 per year |
784 |
#12 |
Durham, NC |
Full-time: $50,300 per year |
888 |
#13 |
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI |
In-state, full-time: $47,750 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $52,750 per year |
1,000 |
#13 |
University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA |
In-state, full-time: $44,000 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $49,000 per year |
659 |
#15 |
University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA |
In-state, full-time: $45,386 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $52,580 per year |
750 |
#16 |
Ithaca, NY |
Full-time: $51,480 per year |
546 |
#17 |
University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX |
In-state, full-time: $32,140 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $47,136 per year |
534 |
#18 |
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA |
Full-time: $54,800 per year |
420 |
#19 |
Atlanta, GA |
Full-time: $43,600 per year |
312 |
#19 |
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC |
In-state, full-time: $23,339 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $47,221 per year |
575 |
#21 |
University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA |
Full-time: $46,781 per year |
455 |
#22 |
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO |
Full-time: $46,000 per year |
287 |
#23 |
Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN |
In-state, full-time: $24,478 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $43,460 per year |
448 |
#24 |
Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC |
Full-time: $47,544 per year |
508 |
#25 |
Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH |
In-state, full-time: $25,680 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $42,405 per year |
231 |
#25 |
Houston, TX |
Full-time: $44,000 per year |
222 |
#25 |
University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN |
Full-time: $41,870 per year |
328 |
#25 |
University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI |
In-state, full-time: $11,752 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $25,678 per year |
228 |
#25 |
Nashville, TN |
Full-time: $43,902 per year |
347 |
#30 |
Arizona State University (Carey) Tempe, AZ |
In-state, full-time: $22,709 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $36,833 per year |
153 |
#30 |
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN |
In-state, full-time: $31,706 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $44,568 per year |
172 |
#32 |
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA |
In-state, full-time: $24,686 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $36,246 per year |
125 |
#32 |
Texas A&M University--College Station (Mays) College Station, TX |
In-state, full-time: $8,156 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $19,424 per year |
136 |
#34 |
Brigham Young University (Marriott) Provo, UT |
Full-time: $10,600 per year |
309 |
#35 |
University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA |
In-state, full-time: $26,340 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $38,409 per year |
247 |
#36 |
University of California--Davis Davis, CA |
In-state, full-time: $33,396 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $45,641 per year |
109 |
#37 |
Chestnut Hill, MA |
Full-time: $36,960 per year |
200 |
#37 |
Boston, MA |
Full-time: $40,848 per year |
311 |
#37 |
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL |
In-state, full-time: $19,975 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $29,975 per year |
226 |
#37 |
University of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY |
Full-time: $45,933 per year |
293 |
#37 |
Richardson, TX |
In-state, full-time: $12,935 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $25,357 per year |
111 |
#42 |
Purdue University--West Lafayette (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN |
In-state, full-time: $20,881 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $39,987 per year |
210 |
#43 |
New Orleans, LA |
Full-time: $45,292 per year |
170 |
#44 |
Michigan State University (Broad) East Lansing, MI |
In-state, full-time: $24,900 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $39,500 per year |
176 |
#44 |
Pennsylvania State University--University Park (Smeal) University Park, PA |
In-state, full-time: $21,066 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $34,062 per year |
186 |
#44 |
Gainesville, FL |
In-state, full-time: $11,954 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $29,347 per year |
112 |
#44 |
University of Maryland--College Park (Smith) College Park, MD |
In-state, full-time: $38,475 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $47,448 per year |
261 |
#44 |
Wake Forest University (Babcock) Winston-Salem, NC |
Full-time: $38,988 per year |
135 |
#49 |
University of California--Irvine (Merage) Irvine, CA |
In-state, full-time: $36,343 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $45,918 per year |
195 |
#49 |
Iowa City, IA |
In-state, full-time: $18,080 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $33,176 per year |
138 |
#51 |
University of Arkansas--Fayetteville (Walton) Fayetteville, AR |
In-state, full-time: $11,392 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $26,951 per year |
67 |
#52 |
Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) Cleveland, OH |
Full-time: $42,500 per year |
143 |
#52 |
Philadelphia, PA |
In-state, full-time: $24,381 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $34,749 per year |
107 |
#54 |
Southern Methodist University (Cox) Dallas, TX |
Full-time: $41,368 per year |
246 |
#54 |
University of Missouri (Trulaske) Columbia, MO |
In-state, full-time: $9,148 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $23,618 per year |
193 |
#56 |
Boston, MA |
Full-time: $1,300 per credit |
225 |
#57 |
Washington, DC |
Full-time: $1,306 per credit |
246 |
#57 |
Tucson, AZ |
In-state, full-time: $20,339 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $35,301 per year |
101 |
#57 |
Athens, GA |
In-state, full-time: $11,594 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $28,964 per year |
102 |
#57 |
University of Massachusetts--Amherst (Isenberg) Amherst, MA |
In-state, full-time: $110 per credit; Out-of-state, full-time: $414 per credit |
70 |
#61 |
Babson Park, MA |
Full-time: $54,450 per year |
392 |
#61 |
Storrs, CT |
In-state, full-time: $12,130 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $28,438 per year |
106 |
#63 |
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick and Newark Newark, NJ |
In-state, full-time: $22,274 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $37,384 per year |
228 |
#64 |
Waco, TX |
Full-time: $28,720 per year |
87 |
#64 |
Ames, IA |
In-state, full-time: $9,076 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $20,792 per year |
67 |
#64 |
University of South Carolina (Moore) Columbia, SC |
In-state, full-time: $41,480 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $68,805 per program |
187 |
#64 |
University of Tennessee--Knoxville Knoxville, TN |
In-state, full-time: $30,831 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $59,403 per program |
153 |
#68 |
Syracuse, NY |
Full-time: $32,804 per year |
67 |
#68 |
University of Pittsburgh (Katz) Pittsburgh, PA |
In-state, full-time: $42,920 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $56,196 per program |
186 |
#70 |
College of William and Mary (Mason) Williamsburg, VA |
In-state, full-time: $27,200 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $38,250 per year |
205 |
#70 |
Chicago, IL |
Full-time: $900 per credit |
109 |
#70 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) Troy, NY |
Full-time: $41,600 per year |
85 |
#70 |
Texas Christian University (Neeley) Fort Worth, TX |
Full-time: $33,750 per year |
97 |
#70 |
Coral Gables, FL |
Full-time: $1,600 per credit |
193 |
#75 |
Waltham, MA |
Full-time: $35,280 per year |
84 |
#75 |
Claremont Graduate University (Drucker) Claremont, CA |
Full-time: $1,581 per credit |
96 |
#75 |
Thunderbird School of Global Management Glendale, AZ |
Full-time: $43,080 per year |
509 |
#78 |
Oxford, OH |
In-state, full-time: $21,296 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $47,036 per program |
26 |
#78 |
North Carolina State University (Jenkins) Raleigh, NC |
In-state, full-time: $14,883 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $27,416 per year |
96 |
#78 |
University of Alabama (Manderson) Tuscaloosa, AL |
In-state, full-time: $8,600 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $21,900 per year |
180 |
#81 |
Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge (Ourso) Baton Rouge, LA |
In-state, full-time: $23,024 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $49,308 per program |
133 |
#81 |
Pepperdine University (Graziadio) Malibu, CA |
Full-time: $40,270 per year |
276 |
#81 |
St. Louis, MO |
Full-time: $51,015 per year |
44 |
#84 |
University of Colorado--Boulder (Leeds) Boulder, CO |
In-state, full-time: $14,742 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $28,800 per year |
210 |
#84 |
University of Oklahoma (Price) Norman, OK |
In-state, full-time: $170 per credit; Out-of-state, full-time: $620 per credit |
101 |
#84 |
Salt Lake City, UT |
In-state, full-time: $45,000 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $75,000 per program |
164 |
#84 |
Blacksburg, VA |
In-state, full-time: $10,048 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $19,497 per year |
94 |
#88 |
Auburn, AL |
In-state, full-time: $8,692 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $23,272 per year |
68 |
#89 |
New York, NY |
Full-time: $1,158 per credit |
925 |
#89 |
Buffalo, NY |
In-state, full-time: $10,210 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $16,650 per year |
183 |
#91 |
Washington, DC |
Full-time: $27,495 per year |
68 |
#91 |
Houston, TX |
In-state, full-time: $10,846 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $18,358 per year |
167 |
#91 |
University of Oregon (Lundquist) Eugene, OR |
In-state, full-time: $17,948 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $24,377 per year |
108 |
#94 |
Washington, DC |
Full-time: $31,442 per year |
131 |
#94 |
Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) Rochester, NY |
Full-time: $34,659 per year |
196 |
#94 |
University of Kentucky (Gatton) Lexington, KY |
In-state, full-time: $10,543 per program; Out-of-state, full-time: $20,989 per program |
60 |
#97 |
Orange, CA |
Full-time: $1,250 per credit |
69 |
#97 |
Potsdam, NY |
Full-time: $45,524 per year |
64 |
#97 |
CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College (Zicklin) New York, NY |
In-state, full-time: $13,060 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $24,600 per year |
120 |
#97 |
University of California--Riverside (Anderson) Riverside, CA |
In-state, full-time: $11,220 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $23,466 per year |
155 |
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