The Booth School fell in Bloomberg Businessweek’s top business school rankings from second place last year to fourth this year.
Harvard Business School retained its number one position in the rankings. Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business both outranked Booth, with number two and three positions, respectively.
Business schools ranked below Booth include Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management also fell in the rankings from third place last year to ninth place this year.
The report specifically ranked U.S. full-time M.B.A. programs. The main criteria for Bloomberg Businessweek’s rankings include an employer survey, an alumni survey, a student survey, job placement rates, and graduates’ starting salaries.