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Ranking success isn\u2019t unusual for Chicago Booth<\/strong>, which has enjoyed the #1 in BusinessWeek and The Economist, and #2 in Forbes, and maintained its top four ranking in our annual Fortuna Ranking of Rankings<\/a> for the past seven years. Yet Booth\u2019s first place finish last week at the top of the US News MBA Ranking 2019<\/a> was a first for the school, which edged out Wharton<\/strong> to tie for first place with Harvard Business School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe University of Chicago\u2019s Booth School of Business tied for No. 1 this year due to its strong placement data, meaning it had the highest percentage of employed students at graduation and, among the very top ranked schools, the highest percentage of graduates employed three months after graduation,\u201d said the magazine\u2019s chief data strategist, Robert Morse, in a statement published by Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a>. \u201cThe mean starting salary and bonus of Booth graduates was one of the highest among top schools.\u201d<\/p>\n A school\u2019s rise or fall in the rankings depend on its decline or improvement in the key metrics measured by U.S. News<\/a> \u2013 including GPAs, GMAT and GRE scores, acceptance rates, job placement, starting salary and bonus, and reputation surveys of academics and professionals.<\/p>\n In fact US News is the only major media ranking that includes a weighting for average GMAT scores, and as Fortuna\u2019s expert coach and former GMAC Director Joanna Graham explains in this Forbes article<\/a>, the bar for entry to the top business schools continues to rise. The average GMAT score at the top ten schools in US News is now an eye-watering 727. This compares with an average of 709 ten years ago.<\/p>\n Among the surprises in this year\u2019s rankings was the ascension of Michigan Ross<\/strong> to a seventh-place finish, leaping four places from 11th<\/sup> last year and tying with UC Berkeley Haas<\/strong>. It\u2019s also the first time the Ross has secured a top-10 spot in some 14 years. It\u2019s pay and placement numbers, which account for 35% of the overall ranking, may be the biggest factor for unseating rival Yale SOM from the top 10 to place 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n P&Q\u2019s John Byrne offers a thorough analysis of the US News winners and losers<\/a>, which includes insights on why Stanford GSB placed #4 behind Booth, HBS and Wharton and the tweaks in the US News methodology that impacted the changes.<\/p>\n 1. Harvard Business School (tie)<\/p>\n 1. Chicago Booth (tie)<\/p>\n 2. Wharton<\/p>\n 4. Stanford GSB<\/p>\n 5. MIT Sloan<\/p>\n 6. Northwestern Kellogg<\/p>\n 7. Berkeley Haas (tie)<\/p>\n 7. Michigan Ross (tie)<\/p>\n 9. Columbia<\/p>\n 10. Dartmouth Tuck<\/p>\n 11. Duke Fuqua<\/p>\n 11. Yale SOM<\/p>\n 13. NYU Stern<\/p>\n 13. UVA Darden<\/p>\n 15. Cornell Johnson<\/p>\n 16. UCLA Anderson<\/p>\n 17. Carnegie Mellon Tepper<\/p>\n 17. UT Austin McCombs<\/p>\n 19. UNC Kenan-Flagler<\/p>\n 20. Emory Goizueta<\/p>\n The Fortuna Ranking of MBA Rankings, released annually at the\u00a0end the year, captures both US Schools<\/a> and European Schools<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ranking success isn\u2019t unusual for Chicago Booth, which has enjoyed the #1 in BusinessWeek and The Economist, and #2 in Forbes, and maintained its top four ranking in our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1831,775,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-fortuna-admissions","category-admission-consultants","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}US News 2019 Best Full-Time MBA Programs:<\/strong><\/h3>\n