Undergraduate Specialty Program Rankings

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This interactive chart helps you sort through the specialty rankings to come up with a customized list related to your business program of interest. As part of BusinessWeek's 2008 Undergraduate Business Program Rankings, BusinessWeek asked business majors at schools to rank their programs on a scale of one to five, in 11 different academic categories. Schools are ranked in a range of academic fields, including microeconomics, accounting, financial management, business law, corporate strategy, and ethics.

One of the key elements in this chart is the column on the extreme right, which notes whether the individual school ranked in the Top 10 in the individual specialties, and where it placed. Clicking on the name of the specialty brings up a chart of how all schools that were ranked by BusinessWeek in 2008 placed within that specialty.

Click column heading once to reorder from highest to lowest. Click twice to reorder from lowest to highest.

2008 Rank	2007 Rank	School Name and Location	School Type	Program Length	Annual Cost	Full-time Enrollment	Class Size (Core)	Class size (Elective)	Individual Ranks (linked to rank category)

1	1	Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia	Private	4	$ 35,916	2519	38	36	#6 micro economics, #4 quantitative methods, #8 corporate strategy, #2 financial management, #1 macro economics, #9 marketing, #6 operations management
2	2	Virginia (McIntire) Charlottesville	Public	2	$ 8,690	652	45	30	#3 marketing, #4 financial management, #2 corporate strategy, #8 accounting, #1 business law
3	7	Notre Dame (Mendoza) South Bend, Ind.	Private	3	$ 35,187	1626	33	29	#9 business law, #3 accounting, #5 ethics, #9 calculus, #10 macro economics
4	10	Cornell Ithaca, N.Y.	Private	4	$ 19,291	708	60	48	#1 marketing, #7 corporate strategy, #1 financial management, #5 business law, #6 quantitative methods, #1 micro economics
5	4	Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta	Private	2	$ 34,336	622	45	32	#7 micro economics, #3 quantitative methods, #2 business law, #9 financial management, #4 corporate strategy, #3 calculus, #8 marketing, #8 macro economics
6	5	Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor	Public	3	$ 12,585	1069	49	42	#2 operations management, #10 corporate strategy, #7 accounting
7	8	Brigham Young (Marriott) Provo, Utah	Private	2	$ 3,840	1616	46	38	#5 accounting, #9 corporate strategy, #7 financial management, #1 ethics
8	9	NYU (Stern) New York	Private	4	$ 36,524	2335	46	40	#10 ethics, #7 calculus, #3 financial management, #4 business law, #8 micro economics, #7 macro economics
9	6	MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, Mass.	Private	3	$ 34,986	246	49	40	#2 macro economics, #1 operations management, #1 quantitative methods, #5 corporate strategy, #1 calculus
11	3	UC-Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, Calif.	Public	2	$ 8,384	700	69	52	#9 ethics, #4 accounting, #5 macro economics, #4 marketing
12	15	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill	Public	2	$ 5,340	658	43	30	#5 operations management, #2 accounting
14	14	Boston College (Carroll) Boston	Private	4	$ 35,674	1970	46	32	#9 accounting, #8 calculus, #8 financial management
15	16	Washington U. (Olin) St. Louis	Private	4	$ 35,524	758	59	13	#6 accounting, #5 micro economics
16	18	Indiana (Kelley) Bloomington	Public	4	$ 7,958	4069	39	40	#10 quantitative methods
19	11	Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, D.C.	Private	4	$ 35,740	1297	42	33	#5 financial management
20	23	Richmond (Robins) Richmond, Va.	Private	2	$ 38,850	670	23	19	#7 ethics, #2 micro economics, #9 macro economics
21	17	Wake Forest (Calloway) Winston-Salem, N.C.	Private	2	$ 34,330	415	25	19	#7 quantitative methods, #10 financial management
22	21	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) Pittsburgh	Private	4	$ 37,544	450	54	29	#2 calculus, #2 quantitative methods
23	24	SMU (Cox) Dallas	Private	4	$ 33,170	917	36	30	#5 quantitative methods, #6 business law, #4 calculus, #6 corporate strategy, #9 operations management
25	20	Lehigh Bethlehem, Pa.	Private	4	$ 35,610	1434	47	25	#1 accounting
26	40	Rensselaer Polytech (Lally) Troy, N.Y.	Private	4	$ 35,885	374	31	17	#8 quantitative methods, #1 corporate strategy, #5 calculus, #8 operations management
27	34	Fordham New York	Private	4	$ 32,720	1866	28	23	#6 marketing
28	33	Babson Babson Park, Mass.	Private	4	$ 34,112	1799	35	32	#7 marketing, #3 macro economics, #3 corporate strategy, #6 financial management, #4 micro economics, #10 accounting
29	29	William & Mary (Mason) Williamsburg, Va.	Public	2	$ 9,164	453	34	24	#2 marketing
30	31	Bentley Waltham, Mass.	Private	4	$ 32,896	3810	28	27	#10 calculus
32	39	Texas Christian (Neeley) Fort Worth	Private	4	$ 24,865	1727	35	27	#6 calculus
33	25	U. of Washington Seattle	Public	2	$ 6,385	1750	37	32	#10 operations management
37	28	Wisconsin (Madison)	Public	2	$ 7,460	1312	73	70	#10 micro economics
40	74	Binghamton Binghamton, N.Y.	Public	4	$ 6,012	870	64	35	#3 business law
45	NR	Loyola College (Sellinger) Baltimore	Private	2	$ 42,730	926	14	20	#7 business law, #5 marketing
46	43	Florida (Warrington) Gainesville	Public	2	$ 3,372	2177	35	19	#4 macro economics, #3 micro economics
47	46	San Diego San Diego, Calif.	Private	4	$ 32,564	1077	32	29	#8 business law, #6 macro economics
55	44	Georgia Tech Atlanta	Public	4	$ 5,038	1246	65	36	#4 operations management
60	61	Delaware (Lerner) Newark	Public	4	$ 7,780	2377	38	32	#9 micro economics
63	55	Arizona (Eller) Tucson	Public	2	$ 5,848	1419	181	40	#3 ethics
67	NR	Denver (Daniels) Denver	Private	4	$ 31,428	2302	37	26	#2 ethics
69	77	Florida State Tallahassee	Public	4	$ 3,450	4641	60	36	#9 quantitative methods
78	NR	Buffalo Buffalo, N.Y.	Public	4	$ 6,218	2332	55	55	#3 operations management
79	75	Illinois State Normal	Public	4	$ 8,697	3178	47	20	#4 ethics
81	65	Northern Illinois DeKalb	Public	2	$ 7,799	3710	47	26	#6 ethics
82	85	Houston (Bauer) Houston	Public	4	$ 6,333	1558	106	40	#10 marketing
83	89	Colorado (Leeds) Boulder	Public	4	$ 9,895	3035	238	35	#10 business law
85	71	North Carolina State Raleigh	Public	4	$ 5,286	2251	92	26	#7 operations management
89	NR	Belmont Nashville	Private	4	$ 19,780	1501	28	18	#8 ethics