BusinessWeek published its 2016 MBA Rankings of US programs. The rankings methodology was based on 5 components: Employer Survey (35%), Alumni Survey (30%), Student Survey (15%), Job Placement Rate (10%) and Starting Salary (10%).
Here are the top 50:
1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 Duke (Fuqua)
4 Chicago (Booth)
5 Dartmouth (Tuck)
6 Pennsylvania (Wharton)
7 MIT (Sloan)
8 Rice (Jones)
9 Northwestern (Kellogg)
10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
11 Columbia
12 Virginia
13 Michigan (Ross)
14 Yale
15 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
16 Cornell (Johnson)
17 NYU (Stern)
18 Texas A&M (Mays)
19 Washington (Foster)
20 Emory (Goizueta)
21 Texas at Austin (McCombs)
22 UCLA (Anderson)
23 Brigham Young (Marriott)
24 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
25 Notre Dame
26 Indiana (Kelley)
27 Michigan State (Broad)
28 Georgia Tech (Scheller)
29 Texas at Dallas (Jindal)
30 Rochester (Simon)
31 Southern Methodist (Cox)
32 Vanderbilt (Owen)
33 Maryland (Smith)
34 Georgetown (McDonough)
35 Iowa (Tippie)
36 Washington in St. Louis (Olin)
37 Penn State (Smeal)
38 USC (Marshall)
39 Minnesota (Carlson)
40 Wisconsin
41 Ohio State (Fisher)
42 Purdue
43 American (Kogod)
44 Illinois
45 George Washington
46 Florida (Hough)
47 Buffalo
48 Boston College
49 Arizona State (W.P. Carey)
50 Boston University (Questrom)