2006 Full-Time MBA Program Rankings

These are the cream of the crop. As we have done every two years since 1988, BusinessWeek looks at the broad spectrum of U.S. and international full-time MBA programs and takes their measure. The best make it into the rankings of the Top 30 U.S. programs and the Top 10 programs outside the U.S.

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Top 30 U.S. Programs：

1 University of Chicago

2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)

4 Harvard University

5 University of Michigan (Ross)

6 Stanford University

7 MIT (Sloan)

8 UC Berkeley (Haas)

9 Duke University (Fuqua)

10 Columbia University

11 Dartmouth (Tuck)

12 UCLA (Anderson)

13 Cornell University (Johnson)

14 NYU (Stern)

15 University of Virginia (Darden)

16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)

18 Indiana University (Kelley)

19 Yale University

20 Texas - Austin

21 University of Southern California (Marshall)

22 Georgetown University (McDonough)

23 Emory University (Goizueta)

24 Purdue University (Krannert)

25 University of Maryland (Smith)

26 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)

27 Washington University (Olin)

28 Rochester (Simon)

29 Michigan State University (Broad)

30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)

Non-U.S. Top 10 MBA Programs：

1 Queens University

2 Western Ontario (Ivey)

3 Toronto (Rotman)

4 IMD

5 London Business School

6 INSEAD

7 ESADE

8 IESE

9 York (Schulich)

10 HEC - Montreal

U.S. Second Tier Programs：

Babson

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Minnesota (Carlson)

Ohio State University (Fisher)

Penn State University (Smeal)

Thunderbird (Garvin)

Wake Forest University (Babcock)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

U.S. Programs Also Considered For Ranking ：

American University (Kogod)

University of Arizona (Eller)

Arizona State University (Carey)

Boston College (Carroll)

Boston University

Brigham Young University (Marriott)

Buffalo University

UC Davis

UC Irvine (Merage)

Case Western University (Weatherhead)

University of Connecticut

University of Florida

Florida International University

Fordham University

George Washington University University

University of Georgia (Terry)

Georgia Tech

Howard University

University of Iowa (Tippie)

Northeastern University

University of Pittsburgh (Katz)

Pepperdine University (Graziadio)

Rice University (Jones)

Rutgers University

University of South Carolina (Moore)

Southern Methodist University (Cox)

Syracuse University (Whitman)

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Texas Christian University

Tulane University (Freeman)

University of Washington

William and Mary (Mason)

Non-U.S. Second-Tier Programs：

University of British Columbia (Sauder)

Cambridge University (Judge)

HEC - Paris

McGill University

SDA Bocconi

Non-U.S. Also Considered：

Asian Institute of Management

Cranfield University

Instituto de Empresas

Manchester Business School

Oxford (Said)

Rotterdam (Erasmus)

University College - Dublin

University of Warwick