Top business and accounting graduate schools ranked

For everything, there is a ranking. Accounting and business schools are no exception. If you're going to add another set of initials to your name, you might want to consider the quality of the source from which those initials are granted. Published rankings are not substitutes for due diligence in researching schools yourself, but they do give you an interesting look at how the pollsters regard the various schools and the programs they offer.

Here are some of the rankings we've uncovered in the past year.

Public Accounting Report
27th Annual Professor’s Survey - 2008
Top 25 Accounting Graduate Programs

TY	LY	School
1	2	Brigham Young University
2	3	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3	1	University of Texas-Austin
4	4	University of Southern California
5	15	University of Michigan
6	5	University of Notre Dame
7	7	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8	6	Texas A&M University
9	7	Indiana University Bloomington
10	11	University of Georgia
11	11	Ohio State University
11	9	Michigan State University
13	15	University of Washington
14	NR	University of Virginia
15	25	University of Missouri-Columbia
15	NR	University of Mississippi
17	13	University of Wisconsin-Madison
18	18	University of Connecticut
19	23	Florida State University
19	21	University of Alabama
21	10	University of Florida
22	NR	Baruch College-The City University of New York
23	NR	University of Arizona
23	14	Arizona State University
23	NR	University of Iowa
23	18	Miami University (Ohio)

Honorable Mention:

College of William & Mary

Boston College

Virginia Tech

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Wake Forest University

North Carolina State University.

NR=Not Ranked.

Business Week - 2008 Top 30 U.S. MBA Programs

1	University of Chicago (Booth)
2	Harvard University
3	Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5	University of Michigan (Ross)
6	Stanford University
7	Columbia University
8	Duke University (Fuqua)
9	MIT (Sloan)
10	UC Berkeley (Haas)
11	Cornell University (Johnson)
12	Dartmouth (Tuck)
13	NYU (Stern)
14	UCLA (Anderson)
15	Indiana University (Kelley)
16	University of Virginia (Darden)
17	UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
18	Southern Methodist (Cox)
19	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20	University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
21	Texas - Austin
22	Brigham Young (Marriott)
23	Emory University (Goizueta)
24	Yale University
25	University of Southern California (Marshall)
26	University of Maryland (Smith)
27	University of Washington (Foster)
28	Washington University (Olin)
29	Georgia Tech
30	Vanderbilt University (Owen)

Business Week - 2008 Top 30 Part-Time U.S. MBA Programs

1	UCLA (Anderson)
2	Emory University
3	USC (Marshall)
4	Loyola Marymount University
5	Lehigh University
6	University of Denver
7	University of Chicago
8	Loyola University - Chicago
9	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
10	Drexel University (LeBow)
11	Villanova University
12	Elon University (Love)
13	Southern Methodist University (Cox)
14	Richmond (Robins)
15	Boston University
16	University of Washington (Foster)
17	University of Nevada, Reno
18	Indiana University - Southeast
19	Georgia State (Robinson)
20	Washington (Olin)
21	Ohio State University (Fisher)
22	Wake Forest (Babcock)
23	Rollins College (Crummer)
24	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
25	New York University (Stern)
26	University of Texas at San Antonio
27	Houston (Bauer)
28	Boston College (Carroll)
29	U. Mass. - Amherst (Isenberg)
30	Texas-Austin (McCombs)

Business Week - 2008 Top 25 Executive MBA Programs

1	Northwestern University
2	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) MBA for Executives West
3	University of Chicago
4	University of Michigan
5	USC (Marshall)
6	Columbia
7	Emory University
8	UCLA (Anderson)
9	Duke (Fuqua-Global)
10	UNC Chapel-Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
11	Southern Methodist University (Cox)
12	Georgetown (McDonough)
13	Cornell (Johnson)
14	Ohio State (Fisher)
15	IE Business School
16	IMD
17	IESE Business School (Navarra)
18	INSEAD
19	New York University (Stern)
20	London Business School
21	ESADE (Barcelona)
22	Thunderbird
23	Queen's School of Business (Ontario)
24	Washington (Olin)
25	Villanova

U.S. News and World Report, 2009 Best Graduate Accounting Programs

1	University of Texas--Austin (McCombs)	Austin, TX
2	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Philadelphia, PA
3	University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, IL
4	University of Chicago (Booth)	Chicago, IL
5	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross)	Ann Arbor, MI
6	University of Southern California (Marshall)	Los Angeles, CA
7	Stanford University	Stanford, CA
8	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	Provo, UT
9	New York University (Stern)	New York,
10	Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley)	Bloomington,

U.S. News and World Report, 2009 Best Executive MBA Programs

1	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	Evanston, IL
2	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Philadelphia, PA
3	University of Chicago (Booth)	Chicago, IL
4	Duke University (Fuqua)	Durham, NC
5	Columbia University	New York, NY
6	University of California--Berkeley (Haas)	Berkeley, CA
7	New York University (Stern)	New York, NY
8	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross)	Ann Arbor, MI
9	University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson)	Los Angeles, CA
10	University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)	Chapel Hill, NC

I’ve been told that at elite places

I’ve been told that at elite places, like Harvard, Chicago, Northwestern, MBA students are very competitive. They tend to have very strong background, and some of them have near executive level experience before doing MBA. They have the US News ranking in their mind constantly, because they know they are at top places and would like to think of themselves as being at the very top.

William

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Posted by WilliamDCS on 05/17/2011 - 23:58

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Interesting chart;

Interesting chart; I had a quick look at Business Week to see how they rank the schools, and it is based on student satisfaction, jobs and academic quality, whereas the Financial Times also has its global MBA rankings based on current rank, a three-year rank, country, the average alumni salary as well as the percentage increase in the average alumni salary. In retrospect how do one figure out which chart is more accurate in terms of academic quality? Do we also need to look holistically or just what the figures state?

Regards,

Henry

Posted by henrylocker on 03/28/2011 - 23:49

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Top business and accounting graduate schools ranked

I’ve been told that at elite places

Interesting chart;

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