US News 2025 Rankings

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US News 2025 Rankings  
 Just published today, April 7, 2025

1. Wharton
2. Kellogg
2. Stanford
4. Booth
5. Sloan
6. Tuck
6. HBS
6. Stern
9. Columbia
10. Yale
11. Haas
11. Darden
13. Fuqua
13. Ross
15. Johnson
16. McCombs
17. Goizueta
18. Tepper
18. Anderson
18. Owen
21. Scheller
22. Kelley
22. Foster
24. McDonough

2025 vs 2024

https://gmatclub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2024-2025.webp

2025 vs 2023

https://gmatclub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2023-2025-2.webp

Changes to the Methodology:

Employment (50%) 
 
  Salary by profession (10%) - New inclusion(More on this below)  
 Employment at graduation - 7% (down from 10%) 
 Employment 3 months out - 13% (down from 20%) 
 Mean starting salary and bonus - 20%

Peer and Recruiter assessment (25%)  
 
 Same weightage as 2024 rankings methodology, was 40% for 2023 rankings 
 Peer assessment by BSchool Deans - 12.5% (was 12.5% in 2024 and 25% in 2023) 
 Recruiter assessment - 12.5% (was 12.5% in 2024 and 15% in 2023)

Selectivity (25%) 
 
 Same weightage as 2024 rankings methodology 
 GMAT/GRE - 13% 
 GPA - 10% 
 Acceptance rate - 2%

Salary by profession (10%):  Schools report to U.S. News their graduates' starting annual salaries by profession, in accordance with MBA CSEA guidelines.

The professions are: 
 
 Consulting 
 Finance/accounting 
 General management 
 Human resources 
 Marketing/sales 
 Information technology 
 Operations/logistics

mina1005 · Answer

What happened to UNC?

Nikhil · Answer

UNC is 28 in the latest rankings while they were 22 in the 2024 rankings.

bb · Answer

Oh Crap! Do we have an idea why they dropped so much? 
 Answering my own question, it seems there was quite a few schools that were ranked 24 and now one of them dropped slightly and got the 28th spot.

Average GMAT 662 (LOL, is that new, old or average 😂)

Full-time graduates employed at graduation (two year average) 73.9%
Full-time graduates employed three months after graduation (two year average) 84.8%

GMAT range (10th-90th percentile) 572-681

bb · Answer

Do you know how they are calculating the average GMAT since the scores have changed last year?

bb · Answer

Replying to my own question again

Median GMAT and GRE scores (13%): This incorporates the 50th percentile of GMAT scores (both the old exam and the new exam) and GRE quantitative, verbal and analytical writing scores of full-time MBA students entering in fall 2024. All five scores, when reported, were converted to 0 to 100 percentile distributions specific to their exams. U.S. News then weighted these percentile distributions based on the proportions of new entrants submitting the GMAT vs. GRE exams. For example, if 80% of a school's test-takers submitted old GMAT scores and 20% submitted GRE scores, its 0 to 100 old GMAT percentile distribution would be multiplied by 0.8 and its 0 to 100 GRE percentile distribution would be multiplied by 0.2; then the two adjusted values are combined for the final score. This means U.S. News did not convert GRE scores to GMAT scores or vice versa in its calculations.

MY002 · Answer

Hi bb,
Foster’s ranking was 27 (tie) in 2024 and this year it’s 22 (tie)

bbb1923 · Answer

Rice is not even on the important list anymore . With oil prices dropping, is rice gonna survive?

bb · Answer

Rice/Jones has been bobbing in the mid-20's for a long time. Oil prices have gone down plenty of times before and will continue to fluctuate. Oil prices are a reflection of the overall economic activity outlook.

oil& gas industry has been challenged for a while with few US candidates wanting to pursue it and internationals are even hired, so I think the school will be OK but if the entire Gulf Coast economy takes a big dip as the result of oil price challenges then we have more to worry about...

bb · Answer

I am sorry. You are right. I need to fix my chart Stupid US news changed their terminology and that threw me off last year. 2023 rankings used to be called 2024, which is stupid, so they corrected to the better year naming, which I knew but it confused me in my records. I need to rework the charts.

bb · Answer

I have got my wires uncrossed and updated the charts, creating 2:

2024 vs 2025 and 2023 vs. 2025

The interesting part is that there was decent movement last year and again this year, but if you compare vs. 2 years ago, the movement is much less visible, with the most change being 3 points for Foster that moved down and this year moved back up. Definitely a roller-coaster for some programs and Tech seems to have contributed to the rise, fall, and subsequent rise of UW.

Similarly Tuck is a big winner this year but that's because it was a big looser last year, and in 2 years, the net change is  ZERO.

rohitk101101 · Answer

What is the ranking for WashU Olin this year?

bb · Answer

Looks like Olin is #24. Did really well! Ranked tie with USC Marshall.

Marshall was ranked #18, so that's a big drop (but again, they were ranked much higher than expected last year).
Olin was 26, so it did better!

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