2015 Bloomberg Business MBA Rankings

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Let’s take a look at Bloomberg’s 2015 top 20 U.S. MBA programs:



• There wasn’t a single overlap between this year’s rankings and last year’s. And there was some very significant shuffling around. These dramatic ups and downs, explains John A. Byrne, rankings expert from Poets & Quants, are due in part to the massive methodology changes Bloomberg implemented this year, including diminishing the influence of surveys for the latest graduating class, adding the opinions of alumni from 2007, 2008, and 2009, and adding starting salary and employment data. You can read more about these changes in Byrne’s article or here on the Bloomberg site – definitely keep this information in mind when comparing this year’s rankings with past years’.

• New to the top 20 this year are slots 19 and 20, Rice Jones and Washington Forster, respectively.

• Leaving the top 20 this year are Indiana Kelley, which fell from 16th place in 2014 to 28th this year, and Maryland Smith which dropped from 17th place last year to 33rd place this year.

• MIT Sloan made a nice comeback this year, jumping 10 spots from 14th to 4th.

• Duke and Harvard swapped spots this year, from first to eighth and eighth to first, respectively. Fun fact: This is the first time in BW MBA ranking history (which dates back to 1988) that Harvard wins the blue ribbon. (See the P&Q article for more surprising facts.)

• Slots 2 and 3 go to Booth and Kellogg this year, making a nice new HBK triumvirate.