How The BusinessWeek Ranking Compares Against U.S. News
2014 BW Rank & School | 2014 U.S. News Rank | Average SAT | Acceptance Rate | Enrollment |
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1. Notre Dame University | 10 | 1419 | 22% | 1,968 |
2. University of Virginia | 5 | 1390 | 30% | 679 |
3. Cornell University | 10 | 1414 | 16% | 737 |
4. Boston College | 22 | 1358 | 32% | 2,004 |
5. Washington University | 13 | 1480 | 16% | 902 |
6. University of Texas-Austin | 8 | 1353 | 40% | 4,046 |
7. University of Pennsylvania | 1 | 1466 | 12% | 2,502 |
8. Indiana University | 10 | 1357 | 72% | 5,001 |
9. Emory University | 13 | 1375 | 27% | 742 |
10. University of North Carolina | 7 | 1356 | 27% | 676 |
11. Wake Forest University | 34 | 1344 | 35% | 538 |
12. University of Michigan | 2 | 1381 | 32% | 1,431 |
13. Brigham Young University | 27 | 1246 | 49% | 1,542 |
14. New York University | 5 | 1441 | 32% | 2,495 |
15. UC-Berkeley | 2 | 1394 | 21% | 717 |
16. University of Richmond | 58 | 1295 | 31% | 477 |
17. Carnegie Mellon University | 8 | 1435 | 26% | 379 |
18. Georgetown University | 16 | 1395 | 17% | 1,298 |
19. Northeastern University | 72 | 1384 | 32% | 3,712 |
20. Bentley University | 47 | 1230 | 44% | 4,056 |
21. Southern Methodist University | 38 | 1414 | 53% | 1,193 |
22. The College of William & Mary | 38 | 1355 | 33% | 502 |
23. Miami University | 47 | 1253 | 69% | 2,779 |
24. Villanova University | 58 | 1325 | 48% | 1,602 |
25. Boston University | 43 | 1303 | 37% | 2,400 |
Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report undergraduate business rankings Other highlights of the ranking includes:
- The University of Virginia’s McIntire, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton, and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper (#2, #7, #17, respectively, on the 2014 list), tied for highest median starting salaries at $70,000.
- Wake Forest University’s School of Business (#11 on the list) ranked the highest for academic quality.
- Providence College had the biggest rise among ranked schools, jumping 34 spots to 75, from 2013 to 2014, on the strength of a 66-place increase on its employer survey score.
- Rutgers University fell the furthest from 2013 to 2014, dropping 37 spots to 118.
- The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (#7) is the only school to make the top 10 in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2012 full-time MBA rankings and this year’s undergraduate list. (The University of Virginia and Cornell ranked in the top 10 MBA programs, but they educate undergraduate business majors and MBAs in separate colleges).
BusinessWeek said its student survey, which captures student assessments of teaching quality, school facilities, career services, and other factors, recorded 28,842 responses from graduating seniors. The employer survey, which measures employers’ perceptions of student quality at schools where they hire undergraduates, recorded responses from 301 firms across the country.
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