2011 Top MBA Programs Per The Financial Times: These are the full-time North American programs in the top 50 of the FT global rankings. Following each program name is its place in the overall rankings, in parentheses.
- Pennsylvania (Wharton) (tie-1)
- Harvard (3)
- Stanford (tie-4)
- Columbia (7)
- MIT (Sloan) (tie-9)
- Chicago (Booth) (12)
- NYU (Stern) (tie-15)
- Yale (tie-15)
- Dartmouth (Tuck) (tie-18)
- Duke (Fuqua) (20)
- Northwestern (Kellogg) (tie-21)
- Michigan (Ross) (24)
- California-Berkeley (Haas) (25)
- Cornell (Johnson) (30)
- UCLA (Anderson) (31)
- Emory (Goizueta) (tie-38)
- Georgetown (McDonough) (tie-38)
- Maryland (Smith) (39)
- Virgina (Darden) (tie-41)
- Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) (tie-41)
- Rice (Jones) (tie-44)
- Texas A&M (Mays) (tie-44)
- Toronto (Rotman) (tie-46)
- Western Ontario (Ivey) (tie-46)
- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (tie-46)
- Texas at Austin (McCombs) (tie-49)
- York (Sculich) (tie-49)
Top MBA Programs in Finance: North American programs are 8 of the top 10 worldwide:
- NYU (Stern) (1)
- Chicago (Booth) (2)
- Pennsylvania (Wharton) (3)
- Columbia (4)
- Rochester (Simon) (6)
- Boston College (Carroll) (7)
- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (8)
- Rice (Jones) (9)
Top MBA Programs in Accounting: All the top 10 worldwide are in the U.S.:
- Brigham Young (1)
- Texas at Austin (McCombs) (2)
- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (3)
- Cornell (Johnson) (4)
- Chicago (Booth) (5)
- Boston College (Carroll) (6)
- Pennsylvania (Wharton) (7)
- NYU (Stern) (8)
- Rice (Jones) (9)
- Texas A&M (Mays) (10)
FT Methodology: The FT surveys both the schools and alumni. A 20% response rate from alumni is required, for each graduating class. A minimum of 20 responses is also required, if a class is under 100. Three main areas are analyzed:
- Alumni salaries and career development
- Diversity and international reach of the school and its MBA degree
- Research capabilities of the school
For the full report, see the special Business Education supplement to the 1/31/2011 Financial Times.
