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US News Top Business Schools (2017)

After evaluating 417 MBA programs, US News has released the 2018 Business School ranking. The top spot is a tie between Harvard and Wharton – both enrolling over 1700 full-time students. Booth took the third position while for the fifth position there is a three-way tie between MIT Sloan, Kellogg School of Management and Stanford.

The publication has also created rankings based on specialties that include: Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Systems, International, Management, Marketing, Nonprofit, Production / Operations, and Supply Chain / Logistics.

Overall Ranking
#1 Harvard University
#1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#3 University of Chicago (Booth)  
#4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#4 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
#4 Stanford University
#7 University of California—Berkeley (Haas)
#8 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
#9 Columbia University
#9 Yale University

Ranking by Specialities

Accounting

#1 University of Texas—Austin (McCombs)
#2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#3 University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign
#4 University of Chicago (Booth)
#5 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)

Entrepreneurship
#1 Babson College (Olin)
#2 Stanford University
#3 Harvard University
#3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#5 University of California—Berkeley (Haas)

Finance
#1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#2 University of Chicago (Booth)
#3 New York University (Stern)
#4 Columbia University
#5 Stanford University

Information Systems
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#2 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
#3 University of Texas—Austin (McCombs)
#4 University of Arizona (Eller)
#5 University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Carlson)

International MBA
#1 University of South Carolina (Moore)
#2 Harvard University
#3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#4 Thunderbird School of Global Management
#5 Stanford University

Management
#1 Harvard University
#2 Stanford University
#3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
#4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#5 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)

Marketing
#1 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
#2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#3 Stanford University
#4 Duke University (Fuqua)
#5 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)

Nonprofit
#1 Yale University
#2 Stanford University
#2 University of California—Berkeley (Haas)
#4 Harvard University
#5 Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Production / Operations
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#2 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
#3 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)
#4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#5 Stanford University

Supply Chain / Logistics
#1 Michigan State University (Broad)
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#3 Arizona State University (Carey)
#4 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)
#5 Ohio State University (Fisher)

Get the complete Business School Ranking at US News

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