America's Top Business School 2009 Edition

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American Best's University Ranking of Guaduate Business Schools:
(Rank in 2008)

Rank / School	scores	'07 total graduate business enrollment full-time)	Avg. under grad GPA (full-time)	Avg. GMAT score(full-time)	'07 accept -ance rate score (full-time)	Avg. starting salary and bonus (full-time)	'07Grad- uates employed at gradua -tion (full-time)
1. Harvard University Boston, MA	100	1,808	3.63	713	13.8%	$135,630	90.1 %
2. Stanford University Stanford, CA	100	741	3.61	721	7.9%	$134,654	86.8%
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA	95	1,620	3.53	712	17.3 %	$132,171	85.6 %
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA	93	770	3.5	705	19.7 %	$127,839	86.9 %
4. Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL	93	1,194	3.5	704	N/A	$122,932	91.9 %
4. University of Chicago Chicago, IL	93	1,117	3.5	709	23.3%	$126,818	89.2%
7. Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH	89	1,117	3.5	713	19.2%	$128,182	90.1 %
7. University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA	89	504	3.57	710	13.7%	$116,263	82.5 %
9. Columbia University New York, NY	88	1,226	3.4	707	16.3%	$129,427	81.6 %
10. New York University (Stern) New York, NY	84	839	3.4	700	17.1%	$124,752	88.7 %
11. University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA	83	721	3.6	704	23.4	$115,318	79.0 %
12. University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI	82	838	3.3	700	20.4%	$120,408	86.1%
13. Yale University New Haven, CT	80	395	3.47	700	14.7%	$118,964	77.4%
14. Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY	79	609	3.31	682	26.7%	$118,888	87.1%
14. Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC	79	838	3.38	690	31.5%	$117,473	80.5 %
14. University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA	79	651	3.33	688	28.9%	$121,279	87.9 %
17. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA	77	319	3.32	696	29.8%	$111,996	85.3 %
18. University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX	74	517	3.38	673	34.0%	$109,871	85.3%
19. University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC	72	568	3.27	681	39.2%	$112,375	80.1%
20. Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN	71	444	3.37	656	34.4%	$105,296	86.9%
21. University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA	70	458	3.3	689	29.0%	$103,317	72.3%
22. Arizona Stat University (Carey) Tempe, AZ	69	168	3.44	675	31.6%	$98,318	89.5%
22. Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC	69	591	3.26	677	35.0%	$108,959	82.1%
24. Emory University (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA	68	373	3.3	685	36.8%	$107,991	71.6%
25. University of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY	66	296	3.52	673	40.9%	$99,436	78.3%
25. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO	66	288	3.38	674	32.9%	$96,559	82.4%
27. Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH	65	273	3.41	661	30.2%	$97,622	77.1%
27. University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN	65	218	3.37	661	41.1%	$100,104	76.7 %
29. Brigham Young University (Marriott) Provo, UT	64	305	3.53	661	53.0%	$93,448	93.3 %
29. Texas A&M University--College Station (Mays) College Station, TX	64	154	3.4	665	29.8%	$97,496	93.8 %
29. University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI	64	224	3.37	656	32.7%	$93,097	83.0 %
33. Purdue University--West Lafayette (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN	63	281	3.32	662	32.8%	$96,196	77.8 %
34. Boston College (Carroll) Chestnut Hill, MA	61	191	3.34	651	37.8%	$94,271	82.8 %
34. University of Florida (Hough) Gainesville, FL	61	142	3.4	680	43.6%	$70,592	80.4 %
34. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN	61	330	3.2	673	44.3%	$95,263	71.4 %
34. University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA	61	218	3.38	679	36.1 %	$93,677	67.1 %
38. University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL	60	208	3.4	627	41.5%	$92,239	77.4 %
39. University of Maryland--College Park (Smith) College Park, MD	59	237	3.34	650	31.5%	$99,433	69.5 %
40. Boston University Boston, MA	58	298	3.38	668	31.3%	$92,634	79.4 %
40. Michigan State University (Broad) East Lansing, MI	58	202	3.22	633	29.6%	$98,557	90.1 %
40. Pennsylvania State University--University Park (Smeal) University Park, PA	58	171	3.3	650	30.0%	$94,228	70.0 %
40. Rice University (Jones) Houston, TX	58	229	3.25	642	39.4%	$101,529	81.9 %
44. Southern Methodist University (Cox) Dallas, TX	57	164	3.3	640	47.1%	$96,457	78.1 %
44. University of California--Davis Davis, CA	57	120	3.37	674	25.5%	$88,701	68.2 %
44. University of California--Irvine (Merage) Irvine, CA	57	199	3.34	667	44.2%	$80,092	80.6 %
44. Vanderbilt University (Owen) Nashville, TN	57	378	3.27	644	46.9 %	$104,032	67.7 %
48. Babson College (Olin) Babson Park, MA	55	383	3.21	631	56.5%	$94,037	70.0 %
49. University of Georgia (Terry) Athens, GA	52	123	3.4	653	30.5%	$76,517	71.7 %
49. University of Iowa (Tippie) Iowa City, IA	52	134	3.34	652	49.8%	$77,952	75.9 %
51. Temple University (Fox) Philadelphia, PA	51	100	3.28	645	56.2%	$81,491	68.4 %
52. University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	50	153	3.42	634	54.4%	$87,553	77.5 %
52. University of Missouri--Columbia Columbia, MO	50	207	3.45	630	62.0 %	$58,776	71.7 %
54. Tulane University (Freeman) New Orleans, LA	49	74	3.3	652	66.0%	$80,078	73.8%
55. University of Arizona (Eller) New Orleans, LA	48	119	3.34	603	56.0%	$80,073	70.0%
55. Wake Forest University (Babcock) Winston-Salem, NC	48	153	3.1	632	50.2%	$92,556	72.6%
57. Virginia Tech (Pamplin) Blacksburg, VA	47	79	3.42	629	57.6%	$68,683	87.0 %
58. College of William and Mary (Mason) Williamsburg, VA	46	137	3.4	613	59.1%	$82,402	63.8 %
59. North Carolina State University (Jenkins) Raleigh, NC	45	76	3.33	608	46.7%	$78,344	74.3 %

Source: US News

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