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These are the cream of the crop. As we have done every two years since 1988, BusinessWeek looks at the broad spectrum of U.S. and international full-time MBA programs and takes their measure. The best make it into the rankings of the Top 30 U.S. programs and the Top 10 programs outside the U.S.

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Top 30 U.S. Programs

1 University of Chicago

2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)

4 Harvard University

5 University of Michigan (Ross)

6 Stanford University

7 MIT (Sloan)

8 UC Berkeley (Haas)

9 Duke University (Fuqua)

10 Columbia University

11 Dartmouth (Tuck)

12 UCLA (Anderson)

13 Cornell University (Johnson)

14 NYU (Stern)

15 University of Virginia (Darden)

16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)

18 Indiana University (Kelley)

19 Yale University

20 Texas - Austin

21 University of Southern California (Marshall)

22 Georgetown University (McDonough)

23 Emory University (Goizueta)

24 Purdue University (Krannert)

25 University of Maryland (Smith)

26 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)

27 Washington University (Olin)

28 Rochester (Simon)

29 Michigan State University (Broad)

30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)

Non-U.S. Top 10 MBA Programs

1 Queens University

2 Western Ontario (Ivey)

3 Toronto (Rotman)

4 IMD

5 London Business School

6 INSEAD

7 ESADE

8 IESE

9 York (Schulich)

10 HEC - Montreal

U.S. Second Tier Programs

•  Babson

•  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

•  University of Minnesota (Carlson)

•  Ohio State University (Fisher)

•  Penn State University (Smeal)

•  Thunderbird (Garvin)

•  Wake Forest University (Babcock)

•  University of Wisconsin-Madison

U.S. Programs Also Considered For Ranking

•  American University (Kogod)

•  University of Arizona (Eller)

•  Arizona State University (Carey)

•  Boston College (Carroll)

•  Boston University

•  Brigham Young University (Marriott)

•  Buffalo University

•  UC Davis

•  UC Irvine (Merage)

•  Case Western University (Weatherhead)

•  University of Connecticut

•  University of Florida

•  Florida International University

•  Fordham University

•  George Washington University University

•  University of Georgia (Terry)

•  Georgia Tech

•  Howard University

•  University of Iowa (Tippie)

•  Northeastern University

•  University of Pittsburgh (Katz)

•  Pepperdine University (Graziadio)

•  Rice University (Jones)

•  Rutgers University

•  University of South Carolina (Moore)

•  Southern Methodist University (Cox)

•  Syracuse University (Whitman)

•  University of Tennessee at Knoxville

•  Texas Christian University

•  Tulane University (Freeman)

•  University of Washington

•  William and Mary (Mason)

Non-U.S. Second-Tier Programs

•  University of British Columbia (Sauder)

•  Cambridge University (Judge)

•  HEC - Paris

•  McGill University

•  SDA Bocconi

Non-U.S. Also Considered

•  Asian Institute of Management

•  Cranfield University

•  Instituto de Empresas

•  Manchester Business School

•  Oxford (Said)

•  Rotterdam (Erasmus)

•  University College - Dublin

•  University of Warwick

2006 FULL-TIME MBA RANKINGS

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2006 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILES

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