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Top US Business Schools 2008

June 19, 2008 – 5:21 am by Nick

The US News 2008 ranking of the best graduate business schools presented few surprises at the top, but much movement lower in the ranks. The 425 master’s program were ranked by using surveys, statistics, and peer grading. They calculate the overall score of each college by adding up grades for peer assessment, recruiter assessment, placement success, mean starting salary and bonus, student selectivity, mean GMAT scores, mean undergraduate GPA, acceptance rate, and employment rates at graduation.

Remember to use the CollegeFinder “college comparison” feature to determine the graduate program that best meets your needs.Here are the 2008 Business School rankings:

1. Harvard University Boston, MA // Score 100
2. Stanford University Stanford, CA // Score 100
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA // Score 95
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA // Score 93
5. Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL // Score 93
6. University of Chicago Chicago, IL // Score 93
7. Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH // Score 89
8. University of California–Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA // Score 89
9. Columbia University New York, NY // Score 88
10. New York University (Stern) New York, NY // Score 84
11. University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA // Score 83
12. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI // Score 82
13. Yale University New Haven, CT // Score 80
14. Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY // Score 79
15. Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC // Score 79
16. University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA // Score 79
17. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA // Score 77
18. University of Texas - Austin McCombs Austin, TX // Score 74
19. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Chapel Hill, NC // Score 72
20. Indiana University -Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN // Score 71
21. University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA // Score 70
22. Arizona State University (Carey) Tempe, AZ // Score 69
23. Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC // Score 68
24. Emory University (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA // Score 66
25. University of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY // Score 66
26. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO // Score 65
27. Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH // Score 65
28. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN // Score 64
29. Brigham Young University (Marriott) Provo, UT // Score 64
30. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA // Score 64
31. Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays) College Station, TX // Score 64
32. University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI // Score 63
33. Purdue University-West Lafayette (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN // Score 61
34. Boston College (Carroll) Chestnut Hill, MA // Score 61
35. University of Florida (Hough) Gainesville, FL // Score 61
36. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN // Score 61
37. University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA // Score 60
38. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL // Score 59
39. University of Maryland-College Park (Smith) College Park, MD // Score 58
40. Boston University Boston, MA // Score 58
41. Michigan State University (Broad) East Lansing, MI // Score 58
42. Pennsylvania State University–University Park (Smeal) University Park, PA // Score 58
43. Rice University (Jones) Houston, TX // Score 57
44. Southern Methodist University (Cox) Dallas, TX // Score 57
45. University of California-Davis Davis, CA // Score 57
46. University of California-Irvine (Merage) Irvine, CA // Score 57
47. Vanderbilt University (Owen) Nashville, TN // Score 55
48. Babson College (Olin) Babson Park, MA // Score 52
49. University of Georgia (Terry) Athens, GA // Score 52
50. University of Iowa (Tippie) Iowa City, IA // Score 51

For the full directory of 425 schools visit US News.