List of Top USA MBA Schools is based from U.S News. Each year, U.S. News will ranks professional school and university programs in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. These rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students.

These data come from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and some 12,500 academics and professionals that were conducted in fall 2006. As you research course offerings and weigh different schools' intangible attributes, U.S. News's rankings can help you compare programs' academic excellence. It's important that you use the rankings to supplement -- not replace -- careful thought and your own inquiries.

The statistical indicators used in U.S. News rankings of business, education, engineering, law, and medical schools fall into two categories which are inputs, or measures of the qualities that students and faculty bring to the educational experience, and outputs, measures of graduates' achievements linked to their degrees.

The statistical indicators used in U.S. News rankings of business, education, engineering, law, and medical schools fall into two categories: inputs, or measures of the qualities that students and faculty bring to the educational experience, and outputs, measures of graduates' achievements linked to their degrees.

Different output measures are available for different fields; as a result, the indicators U.S. News use in our models vary. In business, the value of students' education can be gauged by their starting salaries after graduation and by how long it takes them to find jobs.

Top USA MBA Schools

1. Harvard Business School, Harvard University
2. Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
3. Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
4. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
6. Chicago Graduate School of Business,University of Chicago
7. Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
8. University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
9. Columbia University
10. New York University (Stern)
11. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)
12. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)
13. University of Virginia (Darden)
14. Cornell University (Johnson)
15. Yale University
16. University of California–Los Angeles
17. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
18. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
19. University of Texas–Austin
20. Emory University (Goizueta)
21. University of Southern California
22. Ohio State University (Fisher)
23. Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert)
24. Indiana University–Bloomington
25. Georgetown University (McDonough)
26. Georgia Institute of Technology
27. University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)
28. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
29. Michigan State University (Broad)
30. Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)
31. University of Washington
32. University of Wisconsin–Madison
33. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
34. Pennsylvania State University–University Park (Smeal)
35. Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN)
36. University of Rochester (Simon) (NY)
37. University of Florida (Warrington)
38. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
39. Boston College (Carroll)
40. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
41. Arizona State University–Main Campus
42. Babson College (Olin)
43. Boston University
44. Brigham Young University (Marriott)
45. Tulane University (Freeman)
46. University of California–Davis
47. University of Georgia
48. Rice University (Jones)
49. Wake Forest University (Babcock)
50. University of Iowa