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MBA News: Stanford GSB Tops Poets & Quants 2014 Best B-Schools List

Last week, Poets & Quants released its 2014 composite list of the top 100 MBA programs in the United States.

In a big change this year, the Stanford Graduate School of Business replaced Harvard Business School in the top spot for the first time since the list’s 2010 debut. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Chicago Booth, and Columbia Business School also appear in the top five, with Wharton surpassing Chicago Booth for the first time in several years. Making the most significant positive shift of any program ranked, the Yale School of Management jumped five places to land at number 12—its best placement yet.

The Poets & Quants list synthesizes results from the latest rankings released by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Financial Times, and The Economist. Click here to access the full list.

Poets & Quants 2014 Top 20 U.S. MBA Programs

  1. Stanford Graduate School of Business
  2. Harvard Business School
  3. UPenn Wharton
  4. Chicago Booth
  5. Columbia Business School
  6. Northwestern Kellogg
  7. MIT Sloan
  8. Dartmouth Tuck
  9. Duke Fuqua
  10. UC-Berkeley Haas
  11. Michigan Ross
  12. Yale School of Management
  13. UVA Darden
  14. UCLA Anderson
  15. Cornell Johnson
  16. NYU Stern
  17. Carnegie Mellon Tepper
  18. UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler
  19. UT-Austin McCombs
  20. Emory Gozuieta and Indiana Kelley (tie)



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