In addition to its general rankings of the top U.S. MBA programs published last week, US News also published specialization rankings of the top MBA programs in various categories. Here are the top five programs in each category:
Accounting
#1 University of Texas—Austin (McCombs)
#2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#3 University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign
#4 University of Chicago (Booth)
#5 Stanford University
Entrepreneurship
#1 Babson College (Olin)
#2 Stanford University
#3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#4 Harvard University
#5 University of California—Berkeley (Haas)
Finance
#1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#2 University of Chicago (Booth)
#3 New York University (Stern)
#4 Columbia University
#5 Stanford University
Information Systems
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
#2 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
#3Tie University of Arizona (Eller)
#3Tie University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Carlson)
#5 University of Texas—Austin (McCombs)
International
#1 University of South Carolina (Moore)
#2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#3 Thunderbird School of Global Management
#4 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)
#5 Columbia University
Management
#1 Harvard University
#2 Stanford University
#3 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)
#4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#5 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
Marketing
#1 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
#2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
#3 Stanford University
#4 Harvard University
#5 Duke University (Fuqua)
Nonprofit
#1 Yale University
#2 Stanford University
#3 University of California—Berkeley (Haas)
#4 Harvard University
#5 Northwestern University (Kellogg)