Bloomberg has released its annual ranking of the best business schools, evaluating 111 full-time MBA programs worldwide based on criteria such as learning, networking and career opportunities.
Bloomberg measures the schools via five indexes: compensation, learning, networking, entrepreneurship and diversity. Of the U.S. business schools, Stanford's holds the top spot for the sixth year in a row in the 2024-2025 edition of the list.
The consulting industry employs the most of recent MBA grads; healthcare is the fourth industry to employ graduates. From the 2024-2025 rankings, healthcare hired 730 MBA earners from 95 schools, down from 788 hires from 101 schools the year prior.
Below are the top 20 U.S. business schools from the 75 ranked by Bloomberg, with ties included:
1. Stanford (Calif.) Graduate School of Business
2. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
3. Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (Evanston, Ill.)
4. Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business (Hanover, N.H.)
5. University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Charlottesville)
6. Harvard Business School (Boston)
7. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
8. The University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business (Ann Arbor)
9. The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh)
10. MIT Sloan School of Management (Cambridge, Mass.)
11. The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
12. Fuqua School of Business of Duke University (Durham, N.C.)
12. Yale School of Management (New Haven, Conn.)
14. Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley
15. NYU Stern School of Business (New York City)
16. The Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business (Atlanta)
17. Columbia Business School (New York City)
18. UCLA Anderson School of Management (Los Angeles)
19. The McCombs School of Business at University of Texas at Austin
20. Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management (Nashville, Tenn.)