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Top Undergraduate Business Programs 2010

In a year when many top programs struggled to find jobs for graduates, the fortunes of many rose and fell on how well they succeeded. A new No. 1 was crowned, the University of Notre Dame’schī Mendoza College of Business. MIT, Cornell, and Emory all moved closer to the top prize, while Wharton, Michigan, and Brigham Young all came down a notch. (Corrects faculty-student ratio for No. 93 University of Colorado.)

2010 Rank	2009 Rank	School Name	School Type	Program Length (years)	Annual Cost ($)	Full Time Enrollment	Student Survey Rank	Recruiter Survey Rank	Median Starting Salary ($)	MBA Feeder School Rank	Academic Quality Rank	Index Number	Faculty Student Ratio	Average SAT Score	Average ACT Score	Teaching Quality Grade	Facilities & Services Grade	Job Placement Grade
1	2	Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, Ind.	Private	3	38,477	1,750	1	5	55,000	11	19	100.0	18.5	1411	32.0	A+	A+	A+
2	1	Virginia (McIntire) Charlottesville	Public	2	9,872	662	2	4	55,500	5	7	97.5	10.2	1370	NA	A+	A+	A+
3	7	MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, Mass.	Private	4	37,782	190	40	3	62,000	4	3	94.3	1.8	1457	32.0	B	A	A
4	3	Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia	Private	4	38,970	2,560	15	6	60,000	10	1	91.5	11.1	1450	32.0	A+	A	A+
5	8	Cornell Ithaca, N.Y.	Private	4	21,814	692	3	14	55,000	2	23	90.8	18.2	1402	30.0	A+	A+	A+
6	6	UC Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, Calif.	Public	2	10,333	653	38	15	55,000	3	3	90.3	18.1	1400	NA	B	A+	A+
7	9	Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta	Private	2	38,036	652	9	9	53,000	8	3	89.6	9.5	1364	NA	A+	A+	A+
8	4	Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor	Public	3	11,645	1,074	8	26	59,000	7	7	88.1	15.6	1356	30.2	B	A+	A+
9	17	Boston College (Carroll) Boston	Private	4	39,130	1,970	21	20	55,000	14	23	83.6	26.0	1345	31.0	A	A	A+
10	10	Texas (McCombs) Austin	Public	4	9,808	3,914	5	12	54,000	18	40	82.7	34.0	1286	29.0	A+	A+	A+
11	5	Brigham Young (Marriott) Provo, Utah	Private	2	4,325	1,663	13	64	50,000	17	31	82.2	15.4	1201	27.0	A	A+	A
12	15	NYU (Stern) New York	Private	4	40,145	2,389	42	10	59,800	21	7	81.0	8.7	1445	32.0	A	A	A+
13	16	Washington U. (Olin) St. Louis	Private	4	38,728	703	17	71	57,000	1	13	79.8	11.7	1460	32.0	A	A+	B
14	13	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill	Public	2	5,626	693	11	46	55,000	16	7	79.4	11.2	1321	NA	A+	A+	A
15	12	Richmond (Robins) Richmond, Va.	Private	4	40,010	608	13	75	52,000	9	3	78.3	12.2	1280	29.0	A+	A+	B
16	18	Miami U. (Farmer) Oxford, Ohio	Public	2	11,442	2,212	16	18	49,500	28	23	77.1	16.3	NA	27.3	A+	A+	A
17	23	Babson Babson Park, Mass.	Private	4	39,040	1,898	6	43	48,500	31	7	75.7	21.0	1257	27.0	A+	A	A
18	14	Wake Forest Winston-Salem, N.C.	Private	2	38,622	426	38	63	50,000	15	1	75.2	13.7	1342	NA	A+	B	A
19	20	Indiana (Kelley) Bloomington	Public	4	9,813	4,839	22	19	51,000	30	23	74.4	21.8	1292	29.0	A	A	A+
20	11	Villanova Villanova, Pa.	Private	4	37,725	1,627	7	69	52,000	40	13	74.2	16.0	1318	31.0	A+	A	A+
21	33	Bentley Waltham, Mass.	Private	4	35,828	3,880	25	31	50,600	76	13	71.7	17.6	1225	26.0	A	A	A
22	19	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) Pittsburgh	Private	4	40,920	385	68	65	60,000	13	7	71.6	8.0	1391	31.0	B	B	B
23	24	Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, D.C.	Private	4	39,296	1,354	29	51	60,000	6	19	70.6	27.0	1359	30.4	A+	B	A+
24	21	USC (Marshall) Los Angeles	Private	4	39,184	3,538	47	34	55,000	23	40	70.2	25.1	1390	NA	A	B	A+
25	30	William & Mary (Mason) Williamsburg, Va.	Public	2	11,100	447	23	39	52,500	12	23	70.1	9.3	1319	28.5	A+	A	B
26	22	Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Public	4	16,800	2,828	53	41	54,000	22	31	69.8	21.9	NA	30.0	C	A	A+
27	26	Lehigh Bethlehem, Pa.	Private	4	38,630	1,372	34	49	55,000	34	13	69.6	18.7	1289	NA	A+	A	A+
28	29	San Diego San Diego, Calif.	Private	4	36,292	869	9	104	50,000	53	31	66.3	16.1	1207	27.0	A+	A+	A+
29	38	Penn State (Smeal) University Park	Public	4	15,580	5,773	37	23	52,000	51	64	66.2	38.0	1228	27.0	B	A	A
30	34	Texas Christian (Neeley) Fort Worth	Private	4	30,048	1,636	4	100	47,000	44	19	65.9	17.2	1170	26.0	A+	A+	A
31	31	Southern Methodist (Cox) Dallas	Private	4	35,160	1,130	27	38	50,000	25	40	65.5	25.7	1400	NA	A	A	A
32	27	Northeastern Boston	Private	4	35,362	2,922	19	61	55,000	68	31	64.1	20.2	1292	NA	A	A	A+
33	25	U. of Washington (Foster) Seattle	Public	2	7,692	1,674	46	36	48,000	39	40	63.8	21.4	1270	28.0	B	A	A
34	36	Rensselaer Polytechnic (Lally) Troy, N.Y.	Private	4	38,100	379	49	79	55,000	50	31	63.3	11.0	1252	24.0	B	B	C
35	48	Binghamton Binghamton, N.Y.	Public	4	6,768	1,373	60	44	55,000	32	55	63.2	27.5	1325	29.0	A	B	A
36	35	Maryland (Smith) College Park	Public	4	8,053	2,750	29	85	54,000	35	23	62.4	18.5	1352	NA	A	A	A
37	43	Boston U. Boston	Private	4	38,440	2,015	20	47	50,000	20	31	61.9	20.0	1279	28.0	A	A+	B
38	39	Case Western (Weatherhead) Cleveland	Private	4	35,900	400	50	37	47,500	24	13	61.5	13.0	1266	27.5	A+	B	B
39	32	Santa Clara (Leavey) Santa Clara, Calif.	Private	4	36,000	1,749	42	92	48,000	36	31	60.6	15.0	1208	NA	A	A	A
40	71	DePaul Chicago	Private	4	27,342	4,117	35	35	55,000	102	64	60.5	17.7	1110	24.0	A+	A	A
41	44	James Madison Harrisonburg, Va.	Public	4	7,244	2,631	11	103	51,000	56	55	59.2	22.0	1145	24.0	A	A+	A
42	40	Wisconsin Madison	Public	3	9,314	1,705	42	55	50,000	19	55	59.0	31.0	1271	28.0	B	A	A+
43	52	Michigan State (Broad) East Lansing	Public	2	10,052	2,038	54	29	50,000	47	73	58.6	29.0	1147	26.0	B	B	A
44	37	Texas A&M; (Mays) College Station	Public	4	8,176	4,116	24	56	46,934	45	73	58.1	26.2	1207	NA	A	A	A+
45	NR	Loyola (Sellinger) Baltimore, Md.	Private	4	37,775	958	42	110	43,000	57	23	57.0	15.0	1194	25.0	B	A+	C
46	NR	Seattle (Albers) Seattle	Private	4	29,340	989	98	1	42,500	105	40	56.7	12.4	1143	25.0	A	C	B
47	49	Syracuse (Whitman) Syracuse, N.Y.	Private	4	35,228	1,740	65	45	51,200	61	31	56.6	24.0	1187	NA	A	C	B
48	41	Fordham New York	Private	4	35,825	1,955	69	81	55,000	62	40	56.5	19.9	1217	NA	A	C	B
49	NR	Georgia (Terry) Athens	Public	2	6,056	2,661	18	57	46,500	41	83	56.0	26.6	1254	28.0	B	A+	A
50	51	Georgia Tech Atlanta	Public	4	7,606	1,231	41	21	50,000	54	73	55.7	18.0	1258	NA	A	B	A+

^*Note: Annual program costs include tuition and required fees for in-state students. Starting salaries are 2009 medians. Letter grades represent only part of the total student survey results; highly ranked programs may have low letter grades, while lower-ranked programs may have high letter grades. In each category, the top 20% among all 111 ranked programs earned A+s. The next 25% got As, the next 35% got Bs, and the bottom 20% got Cs. No Ds or Fs were awarded. NA=Not Available. NR=Not Ranked.

Data: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Cambria Consulting