Nudging aside Stanford, Harvard emerged as the No. 1 program for the fifth time in six years in Poets&Quants’ composite ranking, evidence that an MBA from the school remains the quintessential credential in business.
Here are Poets&Quants’ top 10 U.S.-based MBA programs.
1 Harvard Business School
2014 Rank: 2
Applications For Class of 2017: 9,686
Incoming Class: 937
Average GMAT: 725
Female: 41%
International: 34%
2 Stanford Graduate School of Business
2014 Rank: 1
Applications For Class of 2017: 7,899
Incoming Class: 407
Average GMAT: 733
Female: 40%
International: 40%
3 University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2014 Rank: 4
Applications: 4,286
Incoming Class: 585
Average GMAT: 726
Female: 42%
International: 34%
4 University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
2014 Rank: 3
Applications: 6,590
Incoming Class:861
Average GMAT: 732
Female: 43%
International: 32%
5 Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
2014 Rank: 6
Applications: 4,400 (estimate)
Incoming Class: 492
Average GMAT: 724
Female: 43%
International: 40%
6 Columbia Business School
2014 Rank: 5
Applications: 5,829
Incoming Class: 762
Average GMAT: 715
Female: 36%
International: 42%
7 MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan
MIT Sloan's two-year MBA program is comprised of a combination of case studies, team projects, lectures, live case discussions, interactions with industry leaders, and hands-on lab classes. The first-semester core serves as a foundation for the rest of the program. Working with a team of five or six classmates, MIT students take courses in economics, accounting, managerial communication, business statistics, and organizational processes (as well as an elective in either strategic marketing or finance).2014 Rank: 7
Applications: 4,254
Incoming Class: 402
Average GMAT: 716
Female: 41%
International: 38%
8 UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business
2014 Rank: 10
Applications: 3,592
Incoming Class: 246
Average GMAT: 715
Female: 41%
International: 40%
9 Dartmouth Tuck School of Business
2014 Rank: 8
Applications: 2,487 (estimate)
Incoming Class: 286
Average GMAT: 717
Female: 42%
International: 32%
10 Yale School of Management
2014 Rank: 12
Applications: 3,449
Incoming Class: 326
Average GMAT: 721
Female: 40%
International: 40%
Methodology: Poets&Quants's lineup of the best U.S. MBA programs combines the five most influential rankings. Those include rankings by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist. Instead of merely averaging the five, each ranking is separately weighted to account for our view of their authority. U.S. News is given a weight of 35%, Forbes, 25%, both the FT and Businessweek are given a 15% weight, and The Economist receives a 10% weight.
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