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2016 Best Business Schools

With the new year upon us, U.S. News & World Report has released its annual ranking of MBA programs. Using factors such as “employment rates, student selectivity and reputation,” the top ten list should look familiar to prospective MBA candidates:

  1. Stanford University
  2. Harvard University
  3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
  4. University of Chicago (Booth)
  5. MIT (Sloan)
  6. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
  7. University of California – Berkeley (Haas)
  8. Columbia University
  9. Dartmouth College (Tuck)
  10. University of Virginia (Darden)

About the author

Marc Zawel

Marc is the author of Untangling the Ivy League, a best-selling guidebook on the Ancient Eight. He earned a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Marc chaired the admissions ambassadors at Cornell and the admissions advisory board at UNC.

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