The National and Regional rankings are both determined by how recruiters rate each M.B.A. program on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit students from the school, and the number of survey respondents who said they have recruited recently at the school. Business schools in the National ranking tend to attract a relatively large number of recruiters, many of whom come from national and multinational companies and pay high salaries. M.B.A. programs in the Regional ranking are more likely to bring in recruiters from their region than the schools in the National ranking. They also generally have smaller M.B.A. enrollments and attract fewer recruiters than the National schools.
RANK SCHOOL - NATIONAL
1 University of Michigan (Ross)
2 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
3 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5 University of Chicago
6 Yale University
7 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
8 Columbia University
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
10 Stanford University
11 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
12 University of Virginia (Darden)
13 Harvard University
14 Duke University (Fuqua)
15 University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
16 University of Texas (McCombs)
17 New York University (Stern)
18 Cornell University (Johnson)
19 University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
RANK SCHOOL - REGIONAL
1 Purdue University (Krannert)
2 Vanderbilt University (Owen)
3 Ohio State University (Fisher)
4 University of Maryland (Smith)
5 Brigham Young University (Marriott)
6 Texas Christian University (Neeley)
7 Instituto Tecnologicoy de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
8 Michigan State University (Broad)
9 University of Denver (Daniels)
10 Thunderbird (Garvin)
11 Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresa (IPADE)
12 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
13 Indiana University (Kelley)
14 Penn State University (Smeal)
15 University at Buffalo/SUNY
16 University of Miami
17 Wake Forest University (Babcock)
18 Washington University (John M. Olin)
19 Emory University (Goizueta)
20 University of Rochester (Simon)
21 University of Florida (Warrington)
22 University of Pittsburgh (Katz)
23 University of Southern California (Marshall)
24 Rice University (Jones)
25 College of William And Mary
26 Southern Methodist University (Cox)
27 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
28 Babson College (F. W. Olin)
29 University of Washington
30 University of Utah (Eccles)
31 Texas A&M University (Mays)
32 University of Minnesota (Carlson)
33 University of Wisconsin
34 University of California, Irvine
35 University of Western Ontario (Ivey)
36 Georgetown University (McDonough)
37 George Washington University
38 University of Georgia (Terry)
39 Boston University
40 University of Illinois
41 Arizona State University (Carey)
42 University of Toronto (Rotman)
43 York University (Schulich)
44 Pepperdine University (Graziadio)
THE TOP INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
This ranking includes European and North American schools that have a global pool of recruiters. It is based on how recruiters rated each school on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit students from the school, and the number of countries from which the school draws recruiters. To be eligible for the ranking, a school needed respondents from at least four countries to say in the survey that they had recruited there recently.
RANK - SCHOOL - NO. OF COUNTRIES RECRUITERS COME FROM
1 IMDInternational 12
2 University of London (London Business School) 15
3 Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) 7
4 HEC School of Management, Paris 8
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) 9
6 Dartmouth College (Tuck) 4
7 University of Michigan (Ross) 6
8 Thunderbird (Garvin) 4
9 Penn State University (Smeal) 4
10 Stanford University 5
11 University of Chicago 5
12 INSEAD 11
13 Columbia University 6
14 York University (Schulich) 5
15 Erasmus University (Rotterdam) 6
16 Harvard University 8
17 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 5
18 University of Navarra (IESE) 8
19 University of California, Berkeley (Haas) 5
20 Instituto de Empresa (IE) 6
21 Cornell University (Johnson) 5
Recruiters’Scorecard
Highlights from The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters on business schools RECOGNITION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs excel in the following academic disciplines (based on total nominations by U.S. recruiters in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey in 2003 and 2004)
RANK-SCHOOL-NO. OF NOMINATIONS
ACCOUNTING
1 University of Chicago 195
2 University of Pennsylvania 190
3 University of Texas 123
4 Columbia University 76
5 Brigham Young University 74
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
1 Stanford University 382
2 Babson College 216
3 Harvard University 163
4 Carnegie Mellon University 90
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 86
FINANCE
1 University of Pennsylvania 591
2 University of Chicago 400
3 Columbia University 192
4 Carnegie Mellon University 120
5 Yale University 109
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
1 Mass. Inst. of Technology 635
2 Carnegie Mellon University 360
3 Stanford University 147
4 University of California, Irvine 56
5 University of California, Berkeley 53
6 University of Texas 53
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
1 Thunderbird 559
2 Harvard University 159
3 INSEAD 143
4 Columbia University 130
5 University of Pennsylvania 98
MARKETING
1 Northwestern University 1,040
2 University of Michigan 80
3 Duke University 74
4 Harvard University 72
5 Indiana University 66
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 287
2 Carnegie Mellon University 284
3 Purdue University 141
4 University of Michigan 100
5 Michigan State University 76
STRATEGY
1 Harvard University 684
2 Stanford University 180
3 University of Pennsylvania 116
4 Yale University 116
5 Dartmouth College 92
Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs are best for hiring graduates with high ethical standards.
RANK-SCHOOL-NO. OF NOMINATIONS
1 Yale University 141
2 Brigham Young University 112
3 Dartmouth College 87
4 University of Virginia 61
5 University of Denver 57
Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs are best for hiring minorities and women.
RANK-SCHOOL-NO. OF NOMINATIONS MINORITIES
1 University of Michigan 100
2 Columbia University 78
3 Howard University 76
4 Harvard University 48
5 New York University 42
6 University of California, Berkeley 42
7 Clark Atlanta University 41
8 Stanford University 40
9 University of Pennsylvania 32
10 University of Texas 30
RANK-SCHOOL-NO. OF NOMINATIONS WOMEN
1 Columbia University 114
2 Northwestern University 94
3 Stanford University 64
4 Yale University 62
5 Duke University 56
6 University of California, Berkeley 51
7 University of Michigan 48
8 Harvard University 40
9 University of North Carolina 37
10 New York University 36 | 
