Top MBA Schools

Are you looking at earning an MBA from one of the top MBA Schools? If so, you may be wondering which schools are considered "top" schools.

There are top business schools that tend to be consistently ranked in the top 20 of major "top" rankings.

Top schools have good reputations for their MBA programs and have top employers looking at their students.

Many of these schools were among the first to offer MBA programs and have done so for a long time.

These schools offer promising return on investment (ROI) due to high starting salaries of their MBA graduates.

The following schools are considered top schools for MBA programs, listed in alphabetical order...

• Columbia University - New York, New York
• Harvard Univeristy - Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) - Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Northwestern University (Kellogg) - Evanston, Illinois
• Stanford University - Stanford, California
• University of Chicago (Booth) - Chicago, Illinois
• University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Cornell University (Johnson) - Ithica, New York
• Dartmouth College (Tuck) - Hanover, New Hampshire
• Duke University (Fuqua) - Durham, North Carolina
• New York University (Stern) - New York, New York
• University of California-Berkeley (Haas) - Berkeley, California
• University of California-Los Angeles (Anderson) - Los Angeles, California
• University of Michigan (Ross) - Ann Arbor, Michigan
• University of Virginia (Darden) - Charlottesville, Virginia
• Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut

• Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Emory University (Goizueta) - Atlanta, Georgia
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• University of Southern California (Marshall) - Los Angeles, California
• University of Texas-Austin (McCombs) - Austin, Texas

You will notice that there are 21 schools listed here. When people talk about the "top 20", these are the schools they are referring to. Take a look at one of the schools listed above if you are after a top MBA school. Each school is different and has a unique MBA emphasis. Therefore, find the right school that fits your career goals.