The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia topped U.S. News & World Report's 2024 rankings of best executive MBA programs.
The rankings, released in April, are part of the media company's best business schools rankings.
Among more than 500 institutions surveyed in fall 2023 and early 2024 as part of the best business schools rankings, 339 statistical survey recipients responded. U.S. News ranked more than 120 business schools with full-time, in-person or hybrid programs that provided sufficient data for each ranking indicator. Ranking indicators ranged from employment rates at graduation to acceptance rate.
The ranking of executive MBA programs is based solely on ratings by business school deans and directors of MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International from the list of surveyed schools. More information about the methodology is available here.
Here are the 10 best schools for executive MBA degrees, per U.S. News:
1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
3. University of Chicago
4. Columbia University (New York City)
5. Duke University (Durham, N.C.)
6. New York University (New York City)
7. University of California, Berkeley
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)
9. University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
10. University of California--Los Angeles