us news ranking 2003

1. Stanford University (CA) 100 4.9 4.6 3.58 718 8.8% $124,740 91.9% 94.2% $31,002 755
2. Harvard University (MA) 97 4.8 4.6 3.58 703 11.6% $121,979 89.3% 94.5% $30,050 1,823
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)  96 4.8 4.6 3.57 703 15.5% $121,200 87.9% 90.7% $31,218 1,590
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)  92 4.8 4.4 3.50 703 18.1% $118,381 85.1% 90.1% $31,200 733
5. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) 90 4.8 4.5 3.45 700 16.6% $114,664 79.7% 89.1% $30,255 1,234
6. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) 88 4.5 4.1 3.43 690 20.1% $115,444 93.2% 97.1% $30,323 679
  University of Chicago  88 4.6 4.3 3.33 695 28.4% $115,331 90.7% 94.0% $30,596 1,043
8. Columbia University (NY) 87 4.5 4.0 3.40 705 13.5% $117,989 91.0% 94.1% $31,912 1,225
9. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) 86 4.4 4.2 3.40 690 18.8% $121,692 89.0% 92.4% $30,250 435
10. University of California–Berkeley (Haas)  83 4.6 4.1 3.43 688 14.5% $111,321 75.5% 87.0% $21,242 496
  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor  83 4.5 4.2 3.34 676 19.6% $117,498 85.5% 88.5% $30,686 869
  University of Virginia (Darden)  83 4.3 4.0 3.40 681 16.6% $112,706 93.5% 95.3% $27,283 515
13. New York University (Stern)  81 4.2 3.9 3.40 689 22.3% $112,900 86.9% 92.8% $31,746 858
  Yale University (CT) 81 4.1 3.7 3.50 686 20.0% $112,514 90.3% 97.3% $29,055 440
15. University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)  80 4.2 3.9 3.60 691 17.4% $103,364 77.6% 89.6% $22,490 653
16. Cornell University (Johnson) (NY) 78 4.3 3.8 3.32 669 25.8% $116,588 85.7% 90.3% $30,455 554
17. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)  74 4.0 3.8 3.30 674 23.8% $109,420 86.5% 89.6% $25,525 542
18. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 73 4.1 3.7 3.25 652 28.2% $111,211 90.2% 92.4% $28,452 441
  University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)  73 4.0 3.7 3.34 680 30.0% $106,859 85.8% 85.8% $21,200 783
20. University of Southern California (Marshall)  69 3.7 3.7 3.30 670 29.0% $95,213 81.3% 95.2% $30,082 589
21. Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)  68 3.9 3.7 3.35 651 24.7% $99,732 83.3% 86.4% $20,696 600
22. Emory University (Goizueta) (GA) 67 3.8 3.4 3.30 651 31.5% $104,417 82.1% 94.2% $28,012 384
23. University of Rochester (Simon) (NY) 65 3.6 3.4 3.33 637 32.7% $103,466 87.7% 94.8% $28,620 397
24. Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC) 64 3.5 3.7 3.35 662 20.8% $99,528 75.1% 82.4% $28,440 509
  Michigan State University (Broad)  64 3.5 3.4 3.36 641 22.3% $88,746 93.0% 97.4% $16,955 206
  Ohio State University (Fisher)  64 3.6 3.3 3.38 645 29.0% $99,598 80.0% 92.0% $22,151 264
  University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)  64 3.7 3.3 3.33 645 34.4% $91,140 90.8% 94.5% $20,352 244
28. Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN) 63 3.7 3.5 3.24 642 28.0% $96,044 82.7% 91.3% $20,418 301
29. Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT) 62 3.0 3.4 3.54 660 37.0% $77,091 96.2% 98.1% $9,270 251
  Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN) 62 3.7 3.5 3.21 636 44.5% $100,562 78.1% 88.8% $27,810 438
31. Arizona State University–Main Campus  60 3.5 3.2 3.34 645 36.0% $88,742 81.5% 94.7% $18,352 373
  Rice University (Jones) (TX) 60 3.3 3.6 3.17 640 38.7% $97,458 81.2% 94.7% $22,050 321
  Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)  60 3.8 3.4 3.12 647 32.0% $98,289 77.2% 84.1% $28,480 313
34. Southern Methodist University (Cox) (TX) 59 3.3 3.5 3.20 651 32.3% $92,836 78.9% 91.1% $26,090 233
  University of Arizona (Eller)  59 3.6 3.2 3.50 635 50.7% $81,477 81.4% 88.1% $18,356 157
  University of Georgia (Terry)  59 3.4 3.4 3.30 659 27.5% $81,998 80.0% 90.0% $13,810 163
  University of Iowa (Tippie)  59 3.2 3.4 3.33 631 38.0% $88,783 86.5% 98.1% $15,752 150
  University of Notre Dame (IN) 59 3.4 3.2 3.30 655 28.2% $90,980 77.8% 89.9% $25,095 321
39. Boston College (Carroll)  58 3.3 3.1 3.31 652 21.0% $93,907 79.5% 91.0% $25,892 269
  Georgia Institute of Technology (DuPree)  58 3.3 3.2 3.20 644 38.5% $87,024 91.8% 98.6% $18,918 194
  Tulane University (Freeman) (LA) 58 3.2 3.2 3.33 653 41.9% $92,773 85.0% 90.0% $26,885 154
  University of California–Davis  58 3.3 3.3 3.45 663 29.3% $83,400 78.0% 82.0% $21,725 129
43. Penn State University–University Park (Smeal)  57 3.5 3.2 3.20 624 24.6% $92,122 89.4% 91.8% $17,876 198
  University of Florida (Warrington)  57 3.5 3.0 3.34 655 20.7% $72,855 80.0% 93.3% $13,704 201
  University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)  57 3.5 3.0 3.40 658 24.4% $94,449 67.5% 80.1% $18,446 420
46. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign  56 3.6 3.2 3.21 623 38.4% $79,944 81.2% 94.1% $21,672 402
  University of Wisconsin–Madison  56 3.7 3.2 3.25 623 30.8% $79,337 78.6% 89.7% $22,004 464
  Wake Forest University (Babcock) (NC) 56 3.4 3.2 3.20 643 49.1% $88,570 83.1% 91.0% $23,125 219
49. Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)  55 3.4 3.1 3.30 635 33.0% $79,709 83.8% 90.5% $10,096 217
  University of Washington  55 3.5 3.1 3.35 657 37.8% $81,528 58.5% 85.1% $15,988 262