All 406 master's programs in business accredited by AACSB International were surveyed (382 responded, of which 113 provided the data needed to calculate rankings based on a weighted average of the quality indicators described below). All 406 schools appear in the directory.

Criteria:
Quality Assessment (weighted by .40)
Placement Success (weighted by .35)
Student Selectivity (weighted by .25)

Best business schools/universities in the U.S. in 2007:

1Harvard University (MA)

2Stanford University (CA)

3University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

4Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

5Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)

5University of Chicago

7Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)

8University of California–Berkeley (Haas)

9Columbia University (NY)

10New York University (Stern)

11University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)

12Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)

12University of Virginia (Darden)

14Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)

14Yale University (CT)

16University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)

17Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA)

18University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)

18University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)

20Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)

21University of Southern California (Marshall)

22Ohio State University (Fisher)

22Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)

24Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)

25Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC)

25Georgia Institute of Technology

25University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)

25University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)

29Michigan State University (Broad)

29Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)

29University of Washington

29University of Wisconsin–Madison

29Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)

34Pennsylvania State University–University Park (Smeal)

34Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN)

36University of Rochester (Simon) (NY)

37University of Florida (Warrington)

37University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

39Boston College (Carroll)

39University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) (IN) ***

41Arizona State University–Main Campus (Carey)

41Babson College (Olin) (MA)

41Boston University

41Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT)

45Tulane University (Freeman) (LA)

46University of California–Davis

46University of Georgia (Terry)

48Rice University (Jones) (TX)

49Wake Forest University (Babcock) (NC)

50University of Iowa (Tippie)