What are the top 10 business schools in US in 2014? Business schools rankings vary from source to source. For instance Forbes ranks business schools based on return on investment. Their top choice is Stanford. If you rank business schools by the median GMAT scores, Stanford comes on top again. Nevertheless, half of Stanford business school students had a GMAT score of 740 or less. If you use tuition as an indicator of quality (i.e. business schools that have the highest demand can charge more for their services), then Harvard is the top business school in America. However, if you use salary after graduation as your yardstick, Stanford again comes on top.
In this article we will present the top 10 business schools in 2014 in the US, based on the latest report released by US News and World Report. In order to come up with the rankings, experts at US News and World Report evaluated over 100 master’s programs in business. They use a weighted average score that takes into account several factors including GMAT/GRE scores, peer and recruiter assessment scores, mean salary, mean undergraduate GPA, and acceptance rate.
If you’re looking for a business school and don’t know where to start, this is the list for you. We’ve also included tuitions and acceptance rates for each of the following schools, so as to better help you with your choice. In this year’s rating, the business programs at Stanford and Harvard continue to be leaders, tying for first place alongside the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. From these three contenders, Wharton has the highest acceptance rate, of 18.7%, but also has the highest tuition fee, of $59,736 per year.
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No. 10: New York University – Stern School of Business
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $57,468
Acceptance rate in 2013: 16%
No. 9: Dartmouth University – Tuck School of Business
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $58,935
Acceptance rate in 2013: 20.8%
No. 8: Columbia Business School
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $60,720
Acceptance rate in 2013: 18.1%
No. 7: UC Berkeley – Haas School of Business
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $51,412 – in state; $53,959 – out-of-state
Acceptance rate in 2013: 14.3%
No. 6: Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $59,085
Acceptance rate in 2013: 21.6%
No. 5: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $61,152
Acceptance rate in 2013: 13.1%
No. 4: University of Chicago – Booth School of Business
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $58,760
Acceptance rate in 2013: 21%
No. 3: University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School of Business (tie)
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $59,736
Acceptance rate in 2013: 18.7%
No. 2: Stanford Graduate School of Business (tie)
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $59,550
Acceptance rate in 2013: 6.8%
No. 1: Harvard Business School (tie)
Tuition (as of the 2013-2014 school year): $56,175
Acceptance rate in 2013: 11.3%
