Bloomberg Businessweek Names Harvard #1 U.S. Business School In 2016 MBA Ranking

Harvard is No. 1 for second year in a row.

Stanford notches its highest Businessweek rank at No. 2.

Duke is No. 3

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Nov 16, 2016, 11:01 ET

NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Businessweek today released its 2016 ranking of the best U.S. business schools, based on data compiled from more than 1,000 recruiters, 15,000 alumni, and 9,000 recent graduates. Harvard claims the number one spot among 87 full-time U.S. MBA programs. Stanford is number two, and Duke (Fuqua) is number three. This is the second year in a row that Harvard Business School came out on top—and this time by a wider margin. HBS was rated No. 1 by the more than 1,000 corporate recruiters, and No. 3 among alumni. Its graduates left with the second highest salaries. Competition for the No. 2 spot was particularly close this year, with Stanford Graduate School of Business edging out Duke University's Fuqua School of Business by .08 percentage point for its highest ever Businessweek rank.

Bloomberg Businessweek releases its 2016 ranking of the best U.S. business schools

Below are Bloomberg Businessweek's 2016 top 10 U.S. full-time MBA programs (with their 2015 rank):

2016 rank	U.S. Business School	2015 rank
1	Harvard	1
2	Stanford	7
3	Duke (Fuqua)	8
4	Chicago (Booth)	2
5	Dartmouth (Tuck)	14
6	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	5
7	MIT (Sloan)	4
8	Rice (Jones)	19
9	Northwestern (Kellogg)	3
10	UC Berkeley (Haas)	9

The complete 2016 rankings, along with the methodology, can be found here: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-best-business-schools/

Highlights:

Harvard had more than a nine point lead on its nearest competitor this year, up from less than two points in 2015.
Indiana University received the highest score among recent graduates.
Rutgers University's 2015 grads had the highest job placement rate.
The University of Michigan does not appear in the top ten for the first time since Businessweek started the rankings in 1988.
This is the first year that Rice University has ranked in the top ten.
Alumni, recent graduates and recruiters all gave the University of Texas at Dallas better scores, helping to propel it 13 spots.

The top 30 full-time U.S. MBA programs will be highlighted in the print issue of Bloomberg Businessweek on newsstands Friday, November 18, 2016.

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