Poets&Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Schools Of 2025

Poets&Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Schools Of 2025

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business

To get to the final ranking, we take the schools’ index scores in each of the three categories (Admission Standards, Career Outcomes, and Academic Experience) and add them for the final raw score. The final ranking score is indexed with the top school getting 100 points.

Our full 2025 ranking of the Best Undergraduate Business Schools is presented below.

P&Q’s Best Undergrad Business Programs Of 2025

2025 Rank
School
Total Index Score
2024 Rank
YOY Change
1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 100.0 1 0
2 Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) 98.9 6 4
3 University of Southern California (Marshall) 97.3 2 -1
* 4 University of Virginia (McIntire) 96.5 4 0
4 Georgetown University (McDonough) 96.2 3 -1
5 New York University (Stern) 95.6 9 4
6 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 94.2 11 5
7 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) 93.4 7 0
8 Emory University (Goizueta) 91.7 13 5
9 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 91.2 8 -1
10 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 91.1 29 19
11 University of Michigan (Ross) 90.7 5 -6
12 Villanova University 89.1 12 0
13 Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) 88.9 16 3
15 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 87.4 10 -5
16 Boston University (Questrom) 86.7 17 1
17 University of Richmond (Robins) 84.8 18 1
18 Wake Forest University 84.1 33 15
19 University of Illinois (Gies) 83.6 15 -4
20 William & Mary (Mason) 83.5 48 28
21 University of Miami (Herbert) 82.1 22 1
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison 81.8 27 5
23 Indiana University (Kelley) 81.5 14 -9
23 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 81.5 24 1
23 Bucknell University (Freeman) 81.5 20 -3
26 Lehigh University 81.3 23 -3
27 Trinity University (Neidorff) 81.2 NR NR
28 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 80.3 25 -3
29 Fordham University (Gabelli) 79.3 21 -8
30 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 79.2 26 -4
31 Binghamton University 77.9 28 -3
32 University of Washington (Foster) 77.6 19 -13
33 University of Georgia (Terry) 76.9 64 31
34 University of Pittsburgh 76.2 30 -4
35 Tulane University (Freeman) 75.1 31 -4
36 Purdue University (Daniels) 74.6 32 -4
37 Fairfield University (Dolan) 74.2 NR NR
38 Elon University (Love) 74.0 40 2
39 Syracuse University (Whitman) 73.4 36 -3
40 University of Houston (Bauer) 73.0 41 1
41 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 72.6 NR NR
42 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 72.4 56 14
43 Providence College 71.8 37 -6
44 Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick 70.5 44 0
45 Miami University (Farmer) 69.6 46 1
46 Lipscomb University 69.5 43 -3
47 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 69.4 NR NR
48 Butler University (Lacy) 69.3 NR NR
49 University of Dayton 68.6 54 5
50 Texas A&M University (Mays) 68.0 34 -16
51 Bryant University 67.8 NR NR
52 University of Delaware (Lerner) 67.5 65 13
53 The College of New Jersey 67.2 58 5
53 University of Tennessee (Haslam) 67.2 35 -18
55 Loyola Marymount University 66.7 39 -16
56 University of San Diego (Knauss) 66.6 52 -4
57 University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) 66.0 47 -10
58 University of New Hampshire (Paul) 64.6 63 5
59 Hofstra University (Zarb) 64.3 57 -2
60 Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) 64.3 59 -1
61 Florida Southern College (Barnett) 64.0 42 -19
62 University of St. Thomas (Opus) 63.9 NR NR
63 University of Connecticut 63.6 NR NR
64 St. John’s University (Tobin) 63.5 50 -14
65 Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) 62.4 68 3
66 Seton Hall University (Stillman) 62.4 61 -5
67 Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) 61.8 49 -18
67 Michigan State University (Broad) 61.8 55 -12
67 Drexel University (LeBow) 61.8 62 -5
70 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 61.3 69 -1
71 University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) 61.2 NR NR
72 Hult International Business School 59.5 38 -34
73 Iona University (LaPenta) 59.1 NR NR
74 Towson University 58.7 70 -4
75 Texas State University (McCoy) 58.6 NR NR
76 Marian University (Indianapolis) 58.3 60 -16
77 Seattle University (Albers) 58.2 67 -10
78 Roger Williams University (Gabelli) 58.1 79 1
79 Ohio University 58.0 72 -7
79 Rutgers Business School – Newark 58.0 77 -2
81 University of Denver (Daniels) 57.8 45 -36
82 Ithaca College 57.0 66 -16
83 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 56.5 75 -8
84 University of Mary Washington 55.6 NR NR
85 Sacred Heart University 55.2 82 -3
86 University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) 54.8 81 -5
87 University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) 54.6 76 -11
88 Florida International University 53.9 85 -3
89 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 53.4 87 -2
90 University of Michigan-Dearborn 53.0 71 -19
91 Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) 52.5 NR NR
92 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) 49.7 NR NR
93 American University (Kogod) 46.9 80 -13
94 University of Kentucky (Gatton) 46.3 78 -16
95 University of Akron 43.8 89 -6
96 Oregon State University 41.7 83 -13
97 San Jose State University (Lucas) 41.3 NR NR
98 Northern Illinois University 37.8 86 -12
99 Iowa State University (Ivy) 36.4 NR NR
100 University of Kansas 33.9 NR NR
101 San Diego State University (Fowler) 31.6 88 -13
102 Adelphi University (Willumstad) 31.3 NR NR
103 University of Texas at Arlington 13.4 90 -13
104 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 12.2 NR NR
* Editor’s Note: After publication of the ranking, University of Virginia (McIntire) revised a data point that moved them into fourth place. We did not want to penalize schools that submitted all data on time so instead of moving them down, we kept them at their original rank.

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