The 10 Best Business Schools For Your Career

Which business schools will propel you to the top of your chosen field? The Princeton Review sought to find out by surveying 19,000 students at 300 business schools across the country.
Check out the 10 schools that provide their students with the best career prospects below, and see the Review's many lists of of business school rankings here.

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Harvard University, Harvard Business School

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Harvard University Students Say... A "tried-and-true General Management focus with no concentrations or majors and no published GPAs," a "pedagogical approach that relies strongly on the case method," and most of all "a reputation as the best business program in the country" make Harvard Business School one of the top prizes in the MBA ADMISSIONS sweepstakes. Applicants lucky enough to gain admission here rarely decide to go elsewhere. The school's full-time-only program is relatively large; approximately 900 students enter the program each year. Students tell us, "Despite its large size, the school feels surprisingly small" thanks to a combination of factors. First is an administration that "could be a role model for any enterprise. This place is very well-run." Second is the subdivision of classes into smaller sections of 90 students, who together attack approximately 500 case studies during their two years here. Finally, there's a faculty that "is obviously committed to excelling at teaching and developing relationships with the students. Each faculty member loves being here, regardless of whether they are a superstar or not, and that makes a difference. Faculty guide discussion well and enliven the classroom."

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Harvard University Students Say...

A "tried-and-true General Management focus with no concentrations or majors and no published GPAs," a "pedagogical approach that relies strongly on the case method," and most of all "a reputation as the best business program in the country" make Harvard Business School one of the top prizes in the MBA ADMISSIONS sweepstakes. Applicants lucky enough to gain admission here rarely decide to go elsewhere. The school's full-time-only program is relatively large; approximately 900 students enter the program each year. Students tell us, "Despite its large size, the school feels surprisingly small" thanks to a combination of factors. First is an administration that "could be a role model for any enterprise. This place is very well-run." Second is the subdivision of classes into smaller sections of 90 students, who together attack approximately 500 case studies during their two years here. Finally, there's a faculty that "is obviously committed to excelling at teaching and developing relationships with the students. Each faculty member loves being here, regardless of whether they are a superstar or not, and that makes a difference. Faculty guide discussion well and enliven the classroom."

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[moving violation]

09:52 AM on 10/21/2010

where are we now as a nation? clearly something is wrong with the curricula taught to current MBA holders.

[jubefruit]

01:46 PM on 10/18/2010

I have to say that I am utterly amazed at people's uneducated and short sighted comments about this list. There are those of us that worked really hard to get into a top MBA school, don't have family money, do have student loans and don't regret it at all. It has opened so many doors for me that I created through my own volition and I finally have a job at which I am challenged. We are NOT rewarded for being greedy and most that have a negative view of Wall Street, first of all have no idea what they are talking about nor what actually has happened over the last couple of years and second, don't know anyone that works there. I met some of the most amazingly smart, well traveled and well rounded people of my life at MBA school and NO ONE is working at an Apple (or equivalent) store after graduation. Sorry to break it to you. Nothing was handed to us because of an MBA program, but we were simply given the chance to be heard and prove ourselves.

[ssrelso]

04:44 PM on 10/21/2010

Sorry, I definitely know a Stern grad working at an Apple Store. Not one of the flagship stores; just an ordinary mall store. People fall through the cracks. Same goes for the unemployed friends I know from HBS and Kellogg. I wish it weren't the case - it gives me no hope whatsoever that I will find anything worthwhile with my piddling Bates and 2nd tier law school education. Going to bar association meetings in the Northeast, you can meet any number of graduates from law schools like Columbia, BC, NYU, Harvard, Georgetown, etc, who have been unemployed since 2008. Smaller law firms are offering minimum wage in some cases. It's horrifying. I've been turned away for INTERVIEWS at retail stores.

[thesidetrek]

08:29 PM on 10/17/2010

NYU Stern where you live in the midst of opportunity.

[BizzerPollock]

11:25 AM on 10/17/2010

I'm happy to see a US business school list that actually makes sense for once!

[NYC-CatLover]

11:13 AM on 10/16/2010

Good for your career as what, a laid-off middle management paper-pusher with a ton of outstanding student loan debt?

[gwinegarden]

09:41 AM on 10/16/2010

Again, the headline is suspect. Make that "American" schools. Of course, this was from Princeton. They may not be aware of any others..

[chumt1]

01:58 PM on 10/17/2010

What foreign business schools compare to the schools on this list?

[banjokuzi]

12:04 AM on 10/18/2010

London School of Economics, INSEAD

[Bernie M]

08:32 PM on 10/18/2010

London Business School, IMD.

[Argento1966]

09:29 AM on 10/16/2010

The 10 biggest br.eeding grounds for all the troubles this country is in...

[gwinegarden]

09:39 AM on 10/16/2010

When I was at Merrill Lynch, there was a huge number of Harvard grads. They were kind of scary.

[Argento1966]

10:55 AM on 10/16/2010

Greed and entitlement, mixed with ignorance is always scary

[AntonioVTorres]

08:16 AM on 10/16/2010

I'm sorry but that entire list only speaks to the brand identity of those schools. The ability of those schools to get you jobs after you've graduated. It's truly sad because some of the worst leaders in this society come from those schools.

The people aren't judged on their merit or ability. They're judged on these brand name educations. Look at GWB. He went to Yale AND Harvard. He's been a failed business man his entire life. What has he ever done right? What exactly did Yale do for him? He already had the connections. If he at least had a decent education, he could have been a better business man and president. But, that's obviously NOT the case. Why? That's a top ten school educated man! Go figure!

It would be funny if in the future, when we all applied for jobs, we didn't get the luxury of using these brand names - schools, fraternities, etc. Let's see how far some of these people actually get without their brand name crutches. I say crutches because a good portion of these people are mentally disabled and it's not clinical.

It's all about access. I had a classmate in college who was already working at an accounting firm, driving a BMW. He was only 20. He admitted he didn't really have to go to college. It was just a formality. He already had a good paying job and a house. He could have gone to NYU or Columbia. But why? It's

[ptrgamb]

12:23 AM on 10/16/2010

Shouldn't the Tuck School at Dartmouth be on this list?

[waldopepper]

11:47 PM on 10/15/2010

Shocked that the University of Winnipeg did not make the cut.

[Jim Pasterczyk]

11:39 PM on 10/15/2010

Dubya went to Harvard BS. Guess they didn't teach him how to use a calculator when balancing the budget or funding wars.

[ssrelso]

11:15 PM on 10/15/2010

Everything is relative - I know people who have recently graduated from Kellogg, Stanford Biz, and Stern (NYU's B-School). Unemployed, unemployed, and working at an Apple Store. All owe more than $200,000 in student loans.

Don't even get me started on what law school grads are doing in this economy, regardless of their alma mater.

[Mike Sprinkel]

03:22 AM on 10/16/2010

Please...don't even start with the law school grads. I graduated in May 2010, and I basically feel like my skill set is akin to that of a Walmart greeter.

[versus80]

06:47 PM on 11/08/2010

There's no way your friend got into Stern without good pre-business school experience, so why couldn't he/she go back into that role? And there's no WAY he/she has $200,000 in loans. Tuition is $44,000 a year. 2 years is $88,000. Unless they took out $60,000 a year for living expenses (which isn't even possible after combing public and private loans - max you could realistically get is about $65k in loans a year total), I don't know how it came to $200,000.

Unless you're talking about undergraduate business schools, which take 4 years. But Stanford doesn't have an undergraduate business school, so I'm guessing you're talking about MBAs.

[Trickery]

11:06 PM on 10/15/2010

Again with the top ten whatever that always includes Harvard and Yale. How about someone make the top ten worst schools to graduate from and not make any connections? :/

[johnmorgan]

10:21 PM on 10/15/2010

They all seem to have beautiful campuses and architecture too.

[huffbasa]

09:58 PM on 10/15/2010

Did you do your research before come up with the article? Unfortunately, your fact about "$100 million donation in 2004 from Stephen M. Ross—the largest gift ever bestowed upon any U.S. business school" is wrong.

[AmericaninIndia]

12:57 AM on 10/16/2010

Yes. In fact, Booth donated over $300m to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB), which later became "Chicago Booth."

And, they didn't even list Chicago Booth on this list, which is surprising, because _The Economist_ recently ranked it as #1 in the world, primarily because of its career services!