Let’s Exchange Heated Words Over: Business School Rankings

US News has regaled us with its annual ranking of the top business schools. I know you need a safe space to get huffy about perceived slights (be it your MBA program being lower than you believe is accurate or by having to suffer the indignity of an inferior institution being too close on the list), so let it out here and now.
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US News has regaled us with its annual ranking of the top business schools. I know you need a safe space to get huffy about perceived slights (be it your MBA program being lower than you believe is accurate or by having to suffer the indignity of an inferior institution being too close on the list), so let it out here and now.

104. West Virginia University
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25. Georgetown University (McDonough)
24. University of Washington (Foster)
23. University of Minnesota‒Twin Cities (Carlson)
22. Indiana University‒Bloomington (Kelley)
21. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
20. University of North Carolina‒Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
19. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
18. Emory University (Goizueta)
17. University of Texas‒Austin (McCombs)
16. Cornell University (Johnson)
15. University of Michigan‒Ann Arbor (Ross)
14. University of California‒Los Angeles (Anderson)
13. Yale
12. University of Virginia (Darden)
11. Duke University (Fuqua)
10. New York University (Stern)
9. Dartmouth College (Tuck)
8. Columbia
7. University of California‒Berkeley (Haas)
6. University of Chicago (Booth)
4. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
1. Stanford
1. Harvard

Best Business Schools [US News]

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