The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs of 2011

CNN Money has published a ranking of the best MBA programs in the United States. The ranking was prepared by the social portal Poets & Quants, which is dedicated to graduate managerial education and MBA studies. This is the top 10 of the ranking, which has classified total of 100 MBA programs:

1. Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
2. Stanford GSB Stanford, CA
3. Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL
4. UPenn (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
5. Columbia New York, NY
6. MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA
7. Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
8. Dartmouth (Tuck) Hanover, NH
9. Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
10. Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC

This year's ranking is the second edition of the list. The methodology of the study is to analyze the composite of the program’s results in five major MBA rankings published by: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report. These rankings take into account many dimensional evaluations of MBA programs which begin from the mean and the median GMAT points through salaries and emploment statistics of graduates, and opinion on MBA studies among employers.

The full results of the ranking can be found at poets & quants.com