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After sharing first place with the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last year, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania remains at the top in the recently published U.S. News & World Report<\/em> 2025 national ranking<\/a> of business schools. The GSB was ranked second this year, in a tie with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. The rest of the top ten is largely similar to last year, as the University of Chicago Booth School of Business was ranked fourth and MIT Sloan stood steady at fifth. The UVA Darden School of Business fell from its tenth position in 2024 to 11th place, while Columbia Business School rose from last year\u2019s 12th spot to ninth this year.<\/p>\n

A recent survey<\/a>, conducted by Poets&Quants<\/em> and the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School, revealed that many business school deans consider the U.S. News<\/em> annual ranking to be the most influential of its kind. The survey, which gathered responses from 75 business school deans around the world, reported that 74% of respondents saw the U.S. News<\/em> survey as the most notable one, with such other rankings as Financial Times<\/em> and Poets&Quants<\/em> quite far behind with 21% and 13%, respectively. The Economist<\/em>\u2019s MBA ranking, which was widely considered influential throughout its publication history, was discontinued in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After sharing first place with the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last year, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania remains at the top in the recently published U.S. News & World Report 2025 national ranking of business schools. 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