Best Business Schools
Ranked in 2017 | Best Business Schools Rankings Methodology
A career in business starts with finding the MBA program that fits your needs. With the U.S. News rankings of the top business schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size and test scores.
See online MBA rankings.
Save | Rank | School name | Tuition | Enrollment (full-time) | Average GMAT score (full-time) | Acceptance rate (full-time) | Full-time graduates employed at graduation | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1Tie | Harvard University Boston, MA | $63,675 per year (full-time) | 1,871 | 729 | 10.7% | 79.3% | ||||||
#1Tie | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA | $67,516 per year (full-time) | 1,708 | 730 | 19.6% | 85.8% | ||||||
#3 | University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL | $66,540 per year (full-time) | 1,185 | 726 | 23.6% | 84.9% | ||||||
#4Tie | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA | $67,938 per year (full-time) | 809 | 724 | 11.7% | 81.2% | ||||||
#4Tie | Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL | $66,462 per year (full-time) | 1,301 | 728 | 20.1% | 82.8% | ||||||
#4Tie | Stanford University Stanford, CA | $66,540 per year (full-time) | 833 | 737 | 6% | 62.8% | ||||||
#7 | University of California—Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA | $56,009 per year (in-state, full-time); $57,560 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 502 | 717 | 12% | 68.6% | ||||||
#8 | Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH | $66,390 per year (full-time) | 567 | 717 | 22.4% | 86.8% | ||||||
#9Tie | Columbia University New York, NY | $68,792 per year (full-time) | 1,326 | 720 | 14.1% | 77.3% | ||||||
#9Tie | Yale University New Haven, CT | $64,200 per year (full-time) | 694 | 725 | 19% | 76% | ||||||
#11 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI | $59,350 per year (in-state, full-time); $64,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 801 | 708 | 26.3% | 85.6% | ||||||
#12Tie | Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC | $63,200 per year (full-time) | 896 | 695 | 22.1% | 83.1% | ||||||
#12Tie | New York University (Stern) New York, NY | $66,588 per year (full-time) | 790 | 710 | 23.1% | 82.1% | ||||||
#14 | University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA | $57,790 per year (in-state, full-time); $60,108 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 678 | 712 | 26.5% | 80.7% | ||||||
#15 | University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA | $52,272 per year (in-state, full-time); $55,159 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 734 | 715 | 20.7% | 73.8% | ||||||
#16 | Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY | $61,584 per year (full-time) | 580 | 700 | 27.6% | 79.8% | ||||||
#17 | University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX | $34,296 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,296 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 521 | 699 | 28% | 77.5% | ||||||
#18 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC | $40,015 per year (in-state, full-time); $56,138 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 574 | 700 | 36.4% | 75.1% | ||||||
#19 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA | $61,440 per year (full-time) | 428 | 686 | 30.3% | 76% | ||||||
#20 | Emory University (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA | $57,000 per year (full-time) | 350 | 683 | 33.1% | 84% | ||||||
#21Tie | Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC | $55,050 per year (full-time) | 546 | 692 | 44.6% | 69.1% | ||||||
#21Tie | Indiana University (Kelley) Bloomington, IN | $25,500 per year (in-state, full-time); $44,460 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 370 | 670 | 31.4% | 83.9% | ||||||
#21Tie | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO | $55,400 per year (full-time) | 268 | 688 | 29.7% | 78.5% | ||||||
#24 | University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA | $55,474 per year (full-time) | 441 | 692 | 33.3% | 75.2% | ||||||
#25Tie | Arizona State University (Carey) Tempe, AZ | $26,080 per year (in-state, full-time); $43,186 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 203 | 682 | 14.3% | 78.7% |
#25Tie | Vanderbilt University (Owen) Nashville, TN | $51,900 per year (full-time) | 341 | 691 | 45.5% | 80.3% | ||||||
#27Tie | Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH | $30,120 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,568 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 206 | 671 | 31.7% | 80% | ||||||
#27Tie | University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA | $31,335 per year (in-state, full-time); $46,155 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 253 | 691 | 23.9% | 85.3% | ||||||
#29Tie | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) Atlanta, GA | $28,896 per year (in-state, full-time); $39,484 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 143 | 680 | 32.1% | 83.6% | ||||||
#29Tie | Rice University (Jones) Houston, TX | $53,000 per year (full-time) | 226 | 690 | 26.6% | 75.2% | ||||||
#29Tie | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN | $50,326 per year (full-time) | 304 | 683 | 41% | 75.7% |