BusinessWeek Top 20 MBA – Over the Years

BusinessWeek has published the definitive ranking of US business schools since 1988. Between rankings, B-schools have changed deans, altered curriculums, stressed new expertise among their grads, and attracted or lost recruiters. Occasionally, the publication has also changed its methodology, most recently in 2015. Such shifts have prompted interesting moves in the magazine’s B-school rankings.

In the table below, you can see how the leading U.S. programs have fared over the years.

Please note that the table includes only the schools that have ever ranked within the top 20 as per BusinessWeek.

Click on the year to change the sorting.

2015 Rank	School	2014 Rank	2012 Rank	2010 Rank	2008 Rank	2006 Rank	2004 Rank	2002 Rank	2000 Rank	1998 Rank	1996 Rank	1994 Rank	1992 Rank	1990 Rank	1988 Rank
1	Harvard Business School	8	2	2	2	4	5	3	3	5	4	5	3	3	2
2	Chicago Booth	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	10	3	8	3	2	4	11
3	Northwestern Kellogg	7	5	4	3	3	1	1	2	2	3	2	1	1	1
4	MIT Sloan	14	9	10	9	7	9	6	4	15	9	10	13	11	15
5	The Wharton School	2	3	3	4	2	3	5	1	1	1	1	4	2	4
6	Columbia Business School	5	13	9	7	10	8	7	7	6	6	8	9	8	14
7	Stanford GSB	4	4	5	6	6	4	4	11	9	7	4	7	5	9
8	Duke Fuqua	1	6	6	8	9	11	9	5	7	11	11	12	13	10
9	UC Berkeley Haas	19	14	8	10	8	17	13	18	16	13	19	18	19	17
10	Michigan Ross	9	8	7	5	5	6	8	6	4	2	6	5	7	6
11	Yale SOM	6	21	21	24	19	22	14	19	20	22	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	19
12	Virginia Darden	20	10	11	16	15	12	12	9	11	5	12	11	14	7
13	UCLA Anderson	11	18	17	14	12	14	16	12	12	12	9	16	10	16
14	Dartmouth Tuck	15	12	14	12	11	10	10	16	10	10	13	6	6	3
15	Emory Goizueta	18	22	22	23	23	20	22	28	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
16	Cornell Johnson	13	7	13	11	13	7	11	8	8	18	15	14	16	5
17	UNC Kenan-Flagler	12	17	16	17	17	16	18	15	19	19	18	10	12	8
18	Carnegie Mellon Tepper	10	11	15	19	16	15	19	14	14	17	14	17	9	13
19	Rice Jones	25	34	29	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
20	Washington Foster	37	37	31	27	N.A.	23	24	23	17	17	N.A.	20	N.A.	N.A.
21	Austin McCombs	23	19	25	21	20	19	21	17	18	20	17	N.A.	18	N.A.
24	NYU Stern	22	16	18	13	14	13	15	13	13	14	16	15	17	18
25	USC Marshall	21	28	26	25	N.A.	27	17	24	25	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
28	Indiana Kelley	16	15	19	15	18	18	20	20	21	15	7	8	15	12
31	Notre Dame Mendoza	29	20	24	20	26	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
32	SMU Cox	32	29	12	18	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
33	Maryland Smith	17	24	42	26	25	28	25	27	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
34	Vanderbilt Owen	30	25	37	30	N.A.	30	28	N.A.	24	N.A.	19	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
53	Purdue Krannert	43	41	41	Second Tier	N.A.	21	26	25	24	N.A.	20	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.

Here’s a chart that tracks the schools’ ranks over time: you can examine which B-schools are on an upward climb, or a downward spiral.

You can click on the school name to highlight its progression over time.