Tracking the Top 30

BusinessWeek has been ranking the top U.S. full-time MBA programs every other year since 1988, when it was the Top 20. The rankings expanded to become the Top 25 in 1996 and the Top 30 in 2000. Here's how the schools have ranked through the years. Click on the column headers to see each year's ranking in numerical order.

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School (U.S.)	2008 Top 30	2006 Top 30	2004 Top 30	2002 Top 30	2000 Top 30	1998 Top 25	1996 Top 25	1994 Top 20	1992 Top 20	1990 Top 20	1988 Top 20

Chicago	1	1	2	2	10	3	8	3	2	4	11
Harvard	2	4	5	3	3	5	4	5	3	3	2
Northwestern	3	3	1	1	2	2	3	2	1	1	1
Pennsylvania	4	2	3	5	1	1	1	1	4	2	4
Michigan	5	5	6	8	6	4	2	6	5	7	6
Stanford	6	6	4	4	11	9	7	4	7	5	9
Columbia	7	10	8	7	7	6	6	8	9	8	14
Duke	8	9	11	9	5	7	11	11	12	13	10
MIT	9	7	9	6	4	15	9	10	13	11	15
California Berkeley	10	8	17	13	18	16	13	19	18	19	17
Cornell	11	13	7	11	8	8	18	15	14	16	5
Dartmouth	12	11	10	10	16	10	10	13	6	6	3
New York University	13	14	13	15	13	13	14	16	15	17	18
UCLA	14	12	14	16	12	12	12	9	16	10	16
Indiana	15	18	18	20	20	21	15	7	8	15	12
Virginia	16	15	12	12	9	11	5	12	11	14	7
North Carolina	17	17	16	18	15	19	19	18	10	12	8
Southern Methodist	18	*	*	*	*	*	23	*	*	*	*
Carnegie Mellon	19	16	15	19	14	14	17	14	17	9	13
Notre Dame	20	26	24	29	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Texas Austin	21	20	19	21	17	18	20	17	*	18	*
Brigham Young	22	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Emory	23	23	20	22	28	*	*	*	*	*	*
Yale	24	19	22	14	19	20	22	*	*	*	19
Southern California	25	21	27	17	24	25	*	*	*	*	*
Maryland	26	25	28	25	27	22	*	*	*	*	*
U. of Washington	27	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Washington University	28	27	23	24	23	17	16	*	20	*	*
Georgia Tech	29	*	*	*	30	*	*	*	*	*	*
Vanderbilt	30	30	30	28	*	*	24	*	19	*	*
Babson	*	*	26	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Georgetown	*	22	25	30	26	*	*	*	*	*	*
Michigan State	*	29	*	23	29	*	*	*	*	*	*
Purdue	*	24	21	26	25	24	*	20	*	*	*
Rochester	*	28	29	27	*	*	21	*	*	20	20
Thunderbird	*	*	*	*	*	*	25	*	*	*	*
Wisconsin	*	*	*	*	*	23	*	*	*	*	*

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