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As part of BusinessWeek's 2009 ranking of top undergraduate business schools, we surveyed thousands of business majors at more than 100 schools about how well their schools teach standard academic specialties. Students were asked to rank their program on a scale of 1 to 5 for each of a dozen specialties. The specialties include accounting, corporate strategy, ethics, and—for the first time—sustainability. To use this interactive table, click on any top 10 rank in the column on the far right and you'll be directed to a complete ranking for all 101 schools in that specialty.

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Rank
School Name and Location
Full-time
Enrollment
Class Size
(Core)
Class size
(Elective)
Individual Ranks
(linked to rank category)

1 Virginia (McIntire)65546 31 #2 Corporate Strategy, #3 Financial Management, #10 Quantitative Methods
2 Notre Dame (Mendoza)1,66935 19 #4 Business Law, #8 Calculus, #9 Ethics, #5 Operations Management
3 Pennsylvania (Wharton)2,52837 32 #3 Ethics, #5 Marketing, #3 Microeconomics, #7 Operations Management, #9 Quantitative Methods
4 Michigan (Ross)1,05051 41 #6 Macroeconomics
5 Brigham Young (Marriott)1,78341 37 #8 Quantitative Methods
6 UC-Berkeley (Haas)66824 33 #10 Calculus
7 MIT (Sloan)22540 43 #1 Calculus, #5 Microeconomics
8 Cornell71265 44 #4 Accounting, #3 Calculus, #10 Corporate Strategy, #5 Ethics, #3 Macroeconomics, #1 Microeconomics, #4 Quantitative Methods
9 Emory (Goizueta)62244 34 #5 Calculus, #7 Microeconomics
10 Texas (McCombs)3,94249 42 #6 Accounting, #2 Ethics
11 Villanova1,73129 25 #5 Macroeconomics, #9 Marketing, #6 Operations Management
12 Richmond (Robins)64322 20 #8 Accounting, #2 Business Law, #1 Corporate Strategy, #1 Financial Management, #1 Macroeconomics, #1 Marketing, #4 Microeconomics, #1 Quantitative Methods, #6 Sustainability
13 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)63240 24 #4 Macroeconomics
14 Wake Forest (Calloway)39925 21 #4 Calculus, #6 Ethics, #10 Sustainability
15 NYU (Stern)2,30548 38 #6 Microeconomics
17 Boston College (Carroll)1,93642 32 #1 Accounting, #5 Business Law, #5 Corporate Strategy, #4 Financial Management, #10 Macroeconomics, #3 Marketing, #3 Operations Management, #2 Sustainability
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)42854 29 #2 Calculus, #10 Microeconomics
20 Indiana (Kelley)4,57640 40 #9 Marketing
21 USC (Marshall)3,50943 37 #5 Accounting, #4 Corporate Strategy, #8 Ethics, #2 Financial Management
22 Illinois2,85057 34 #1 Sustainability
23 Babson1,85139 33 #9 Microeconomics
24 Georgetown (McDonough)1,34543 37 #3 Accounting, #3 Business Law
31 SMU (Cox)93241 35 #9 Accounting, #6 Business Law, #6 Calculus, #7 Financial Management, #8 Macroeconomics, #4 Marketing
34 Texas Christian (Neeley)1,64034 27 #6 Corporate Strategy, #10 Financial Management
36 Rensselaer Polytech (Lally)40731 15 #7 Calculus, #7 Ethics, #9 Sustainability
38 Penn State (Smeal)5,94349 44 #8 Microeconomics, #8 Operations Management
45 Baylor (Hankamer)2,71331 NA#7 Accounting, #8 Corporate Strategy, #5 Quantitative Methods
47 Ohio1,84332 32 #6 Financial Management, #9 Macroeconomics
48 Binghamton1,42065 35 #2 Accounting
50 U. of Miami2,16130 31 #8 Business Law, #5 Quantitative Methods
52 Michigan State (Broad)4,61971 40 #7 Business Law
53 Florida (Warrington)2,36745 20 #2 Microeconomics
54 Virginia Tech (Pamplin)4,172106 NA#4 Ethics
55 Minnesota (Carlson)1,96560 35 #2 Macroeconomics, #4 Operations Management
56 Rutgers1,01050 45 #3 Corporate Strategy, #3 Sustainability
65 George Washington1,62446 37 #8 Corporate Strategy, #8 Marketing, #1 Operations Management, #7 Quantitative Methods, #5 Sustainability
67 Colorado State1,85837 34 #9 Business Law, #2 Marketing
69 Xavier (Williams)85624 17 #7 Corporate Strategy, #8 Financial Management, #4 Sustainability
70 Cal Poly (Orfalea)2,34851 38 #7 Sustainability
73 Northern Illinois3,54656 19 #5 Financial Management
74 Missouri (Trulaske)1,35363 32 #6 Marketing, #10 Operations Management
75 Massachusetts (Isenberg)3,15573 35 #10 Ethics, #7 Marketing, #8 Sustainability
80 Texas1,69753 31 #9 Calculus
84 Belmont1,56029 18 #9 Financial Management, #2 Operations Management, #2 Quantitative Methods
91 Cincinnati2,19792 55 #10 Accounting
92 Iowa State3,473166 34 #10 Business Law
95 Loyola1,53640 30 #1 Ethics
96 Nebraska2,85166 39 #1 Business Law, #7 Macroeconomics, #3 Quantitative Methods
98 Florida International2,38561 45 #9 Operations Management

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