P&Q Meta-Ranking 2010 of the best Business Schools

The main rankings of MBA programs are from the Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Forbes and – for business schools in the USA – U.S. News & World Report. Each ranking system uses a different methodology. For example, The Economist ranked Anderson (UCLA) on the 50th place, whereas it was ranked 33rd by the Financial Times, 14th by BusinessWeek and 15th and 19th by U.S. News and Forbes respectively. The new meta-ranking of P & Q compensates for the weaknesses of the different ranking methods and provides a statistically balanced overview of the best MBA programs and business schools.

P&Q Metaranking USA	Index	BW	Forbes	News	FT	Econ
1. Harvard Business School	100.0	2	3	1	3	5
2. Stanford School of Business	97.8	6	1	1	4	7
3. Chicago (Booth)	96.8	1	4	5	9	4
4. Pennsylvania (Wharton)	95.6	4	5	5	2	9
5. Dartmouth College (Tuck)	89.0	12	2	7	14	6
6. Columbia University	88.0	7	6	9	6	20
7. Northwestern (Kellogg)	87.5	3	8	4	22	15
8. MIT (Sloan)	84.9	9	14	3	8	19
9. California-Berkeley (Haas)	80.0	10	12	7	28	3
10. New York (Stern)	77.9	12	17	9	13	13
11. Duke (Fuqua)	75.9	8	13	14	20	28
12.Michigan (Ross)	73.9	5	18	12	28	25
13. Virginia (Darden)	70.5	16	9	13	31	24
14. Cornell (Johnson)	69.7	11	7	18	36	32
15. Yale School of Management	69.0	24	10	11	16	27
16. California-L.A. (Anderson)	60.1	14	19	15	33	50
17. Carnegie-Mellon University	57.2	19	23	16	34	33
18. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	55.5	17	15	21	46	39
19. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	53.9	21	11	16	52	49
20. Indiana-Bloomington (Kelley)	47.9	15	25	23	57	46
21. Emory (Goizueta)	46.5	23	22	27	34	52
22. Brigham Young (Marriott)	44.6	22	16	33	83	NR
23. Southern California (Marshall)	41.8	25	32	20	57	36
24. Georgetown (McDonough)	40.9	NR	31	24	38	48
25. Notre Dame (Mendoza)	37.5	20	38	31	71	34
26. Washington U. (Olin)	33.0	28	41	19	50	65
27. Maryland-College Park (Smith)	31.8	26	29	45	43	51
28. U. Washington (Foster)	31.7	27	40	33	78	31
29. Southern Methodist (Cox)	30.8	18	33	49	96	88
30. Vanderbilt (Owen)	29.6	30	30	36	57	64
31. Minnesota (Carlson)	28.4	ST	26	24	75	62
32. Georgia Institute of Technology	27.2	29	44	26	NR	NR
33. University of Iowa (Tippie)	24.3	ST	20	42	64	61
34. Ohio State (Fisher)	24.2	ST	39	21	67	45
35. Michigan State (Broad)	22.3	ST	21	46	65	NR
36. Rochester (Simon)	22.0	ST	37	27	48	NR
37. Texas A&M (Mays)	21.0	NR	24	33	54	NR
38. Univ. of Connecticut (Storrs)	17.4	ST	27	79	NR	NR
39. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison	17.1	NR	35	27	67	54
40. Boston University	16.3	ST	61	31	61	40
41. Purdue (Krannert)	13.9	ST	45	36	54	NR
42. Arizona State (Carey)	13.8	ST	56	27	89	NR
43. Penn State (Smeal)	12.9	NR	28	48	NR	58
44. Univ. of California-Irvine	10.7	ST	58	36	72	NR
45. Wake Forest (Babcock)	10.6	NR	34	46	NR	77
46. Rice University (Jones)	10.4	NR	47	39	44	77
47. Boston College (Carroll)	8.4	NR	46	39	47	NR
48. Illinois–Urbana Champaign	8.3	ST	63	42	52	87
49. Babson College (Olin)	4.6	ST	NR	54	99	NR
50. George Washington Univ.	4.3	ST	73	55	57	NR

P&Q Metaranking	Index	BW	Forbes	FT	Economist
1. London Business School	100.0	5	1	1	8
2. IESE (Spain)	95.2	9	3	11	1
3. IMD (Switzerland)	93.1	7	2*	15	2
4. IE Business School (Spain)	92.3	2	3*	6	16
5. INSEAD (France)	89.9	3	1*	5	23
6. Cambridge (U.K.)	80.4	ST	4*	21	11
7. HEC-Paris (France)	77.8	ST	7	18	14
8. Esade (Spain)	73.0	6	8	19	29
9. Cranfield (U.K.)	70.4	ST	9*	26	18
10. Oxford (U.K.)	65.6	10	5*	16	47
11. York (Canada)	64.0	ST	6	54	12
12. Manchester (U.K.)	50.3	ST	2	40	57
13. McGill (Canada)	40.7	ST	11	95	75
14. Ceibs (China)	39.2	NR	4*	22	95
15. Lancaster (U.K.)	36.5	NR	7*	24	79
16. Hong Kong UST	32.3	NR	NR	9	30
17. Australian School of Biz	29.1	NR	9*	36	NR
18. City Univ.–Cass (U.K.)	28.6	NR	6*	41	76
19. Bocconi (Italy)	28.4	NR	5*	93	NR
21. Western Ontario (Canada)	25.4	4	NR	49	NR
22. Toronto (Canada)	24.9	8	NR	45	NR
23. IPADE (Mexico)	24.3	NR	5*	93	NR
24. British Columbia (Canada)	21.7	NR	10	82	82
25. EM-Lyon (France)	21.2	NR	11*	97	60
26. Warwick (U.K.)	18.0	NR	NR	42	22
27. Rotterdam (Netherlands)	16.4	NR	NR	36	41
28. Nanyang (Singapore)	11.6	NR	NR	27	71
29. Chinese Univ. (Hong Kong)	11.1	NR	NR	28	78
30. Imperial College (U.K.)	9.0	NR	NR	32	68

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I wanted to praise your GMAT preparation course. I achieved 710 points on Wednesday. The course really helped me, in particular with regards to strategies for working faster.
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