U.S. News surveyed 426 MBA programs to get the information used in the ranking of top business schools.

1. Harvard University Boston, MA
2. Stanford University Stanford, CA
3. Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA
5. University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL
7. University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
8. Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH
9. Columbia University New York, NY
10. Yale University New Haven, CT

11. New York University (Stern) New York, NY
12. Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC
13. University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
14. University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA
15. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA
15. University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA
17. Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY
18. University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
19. Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC
20. University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC
20. University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA

22. Emory University (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA
22. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
22. Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN
22. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO
26. Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH
26. University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA
28. University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI
29. Arizona State University (Carey) Tempe, AZ
29. Brigham Young University (Marriott) Provo, UT
29. University of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY

32.Purdue University--West Lafayette (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN
33. Texas A&M University--College Station (Mays) College Station, TX
33. University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN
33. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN
33. Vanderbilt University (Owen) Nashville, TN
37. University of Florida (Hough) Gainesville, FL
38. Rice University (Jones) Houston, TX
38. University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
40. Michigan State University (Broad) East Lansing, MI
40. Pennsylvania State University--University Park (Smeal) University Park, PA
40. University of California--Davis Davis, CA
40. University of Maryland--College Park (Smith) College Park, MD

44. Boston College (Carroll) Chestnut Hill, MA
44. University of Iowa (Tippie) Iowa City, IA
46. Boston University Boston, MA
47. Southern Methodist University (Cox) Dallas, TX
48. Tulane University (Freeman) New Orleans, LA
49. Babson College (Olin) Babson Park, MA
49. University of Texas--Dallas Richardson, TX

51. University of California--Irvine (Merage) Irvine, CA
51. Wake Forest University (Babcock) Winston-Salem, NC
53. University of South Carolina (Moore) Columbia, SC
54. University of Tennessee--Knoxville Knoxville, TN
55. College of William and Mary (Mason) Williamsburg, VA 
55. George Washington University Washington, DC
55. Temple University (Fox) Philadelphia, PA
55. University of Georgia (Terry) Athens, GA
55. University of Missouri (Trulaske) Columbia, MO