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The Best U.S. B-Schools Of 2008
BusinessWeek's interactive table of the best U.S. business schools for 2008 permits you to look at all the top ranked schools according to your own criteria. By clicking on the header for each of the columns, you can reorder the rankings to consider those schools that offer the highest post-MBA salaries, schools whose faculty publishes the most research, or rank the schools by their annual cost. The choice is up to you.
Note: In the print edition of BusinessWeek dated Nov. 24, this table appeared with column headings for corporate and graduate survey results reversed. In this online version the columns are labeled correctly.
Click column heading once to reorder from highest to lowest. Click twice to reorder from lowest to highest.
| 2008 Rank  | 2006 Rank  | School | Grad. Poll | Corp. Poll | Intellect. Capital | Tuition & Fees1 | Pre-MBA Pay ($000)2 | Post-MBA Pay ($000)2 | Selectivity (%) | Job Offers (%)3 | Gen. Mgmt.4 | Analysis4 | Teaching5 | Careers5 |
| Chicago (Booth) | 97,165 | A+ | A+ | A+ | A+ | |||||||||
| Harvard | 101,660 | A+ | A+ | A | A+ | |||||||||
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 93,918 | A+ | A+ | B | A+ | |||||||||
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 100,860 | A+ | A+ | B | A+ | |||||||||
| Michigan (Ross) | 90,879 | A+ | A | B | A | |||||||||
| Stanford | 97,842 | A+ | A+ | B | A+ | |||||||||
| Columbia | 94,104 | A | A+ | A | A+ | |||||||||
| Duke (Fuqua) | 95,000 | A+ | A | A | A | |||||||||
| MIT (Sloan) | 93,568 | B | A+ | B | A | |||||||||
| UC-Berkeley (Haas) | 84,055 | A+ | A+ | B | A | |||||||||
| Cornell (Johnson) | 93,000 | A | A | A+ | A+ | |||||||||
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 91,905 | A | B | A+ | A+ | |||||||||
| NYU (Stern) | 89,184 | B | A | B | A | |||||||||
| UCLA (Anderson) | 77,126 | A | A | B | B | |||||||||
| Indiana (Kelley) | 76,440 | B | A | A+ | A+ | |||||||||
| Virginia (Darden) | 94,000 | A+ | A | A+ | A | |||||||||
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 81,401 | A | B | A+ | B | |||||||||
| NA | Southern Methodist (Cox) | 81,384 | B | B | A+ | A | ||||||||
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 93,844 | A | A+ | B | A | |||||||||
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 77,340 | B | C | A+ | A | |||||||||
| Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 81,400 | A | A | B | A | |||||||||
| NA | Brigham Young (Marriott) | 37,010 | A | A | A | B | ||||||||
| Emory (Goizueta) | 82,856 | A | B | A | B | |||||||||
| Yale | 93,098 | C | C | A+ | B | |||||||||
| USC (Marshall) | 88,800 | A | A | C | B | |||||||||
| Maryland (Smith) | 82,435 | C | C | B | B | |||||||||
| NA | U. of Washington (Foster) | 64,902 | B | B | B | B | ||||||||
| Washington University (Olin) | 82,672 | C | C | A | B | |||||||||
| NA | Georgia Tech | 64,152 | B | A | B | B | ||||||||
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 81,076 | B | B | A | B | |||||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Arizona State (Carey) | 59,208 | A | B | B | B | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Babson (Olin) | 72,184 | B | B | A | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Boston U. | 73,996 | B | B | A | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Connecticut | 49,628 | B | B | C | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | George Washington | 65,550 | C | C | C | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | Georgetown (McDonough) | 83,868 | C | C | C | B | ||||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Illinois-Urbana Champaign | 59,504 | C | C | C | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Iowa (Tippie) | 52,309 | B | B | A | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | Michigan State (Broad) | 58,365 | B | B | B | A | ||||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Minnesota (Carlson) | 80,087 | C | B | C | B | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Ohio State (Fisher) | 77,745 | B | B | B | B | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | Purdue (Krannert) | 69,880 | C | C | C | C | ||||||||
| 2nd Tier | Rochester (Simon) | 80,010 | B | B | A | B | ||||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | Thunderbird | 78,255 | A | B | C | C | |||||||
| 2nd Tier | NA | UC-Irvine (Merage) | 77,897 | C | C | C | C | |||||||
Note:
1. Tuition and all required fees for entire program (where applicable, out-of-state figures used); excludes living expenses.
2. Median salary only; does not include signing bonus, stock options, or other compensation. Based on respondents to student survey; does not represent entire graduating class.
3. Percentage of survey respondents reporting at least one job offer by graduation.
4. Based on 2008 recruiter survey.
5. Based on 2008 student survey.
NR=No response. NA=Not applicable.
Data: BusinessWeek, Cambria Consulting
Research by: Geoff Gloeckler, Fred Jespersen, and Louis Lavelle with Manuel Baigorri, Daphna Behar, Dan Macsai, and Alysa Teichman
