As is the case with all of U.S. News’ rankings, this one only rates U.S. schools. And even though most of these B-schools have several EMBA programs, often in partnership with European and Asian schools, the list only ranks schools–not specific Executive MBA programs.
2011 U.S. NEWS RANKING OF EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAMS AND HOW IT COMPARES TO BUSINESSWEEK’S RANKING POLL OF EMBA DIRECTORS
| School & 2011 U.S. News Rank | 2010 U.S. News Rank | Year-Over-Year Difference | 2009 BW EMBA Director Rank |
| 1. Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia & San Francisco | 1 | —– | 2 |
| 2. Chicago (Booth) Chicago, London & Singapore | 3 | +1 | 1 |
| 3. Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 4. Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC | 4 | —- | 5 |
| 5. Columbia Business School New York, NY | 5 | —– | 4 |
| 6. New York (Stern) New York, NY | 6 | —– | 6 |
| 6. UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA | 9 | +3 | 10 |
| 8. Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI | 8 | —– | 8 |
| 9. California-Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA | 7 | -2 | NR |
| 10. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC | 10 | —– | 9 |
| 11. Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA | 12 | +1 | 11 |
| 12. Stanford Graduate School Palo Alto, CA | 13 | +1 | NR |
| 13. Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA | 11 | -2 | 15 |
| 14. Virgnia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA | 18 | +4 | NR |
| 15. California-Santa Clara (Leavey) Santa Clara, CA | 18 | +3 | NR |
| 15. Cornell (Johnson) Ithaca, NY | 20 | +5 | 17 |
| 17. Washington University (Olin) St. Louis, MO | NR | New to list | NA |
| 18. Texas-Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX | 14 | -4 | 19 |
| 18. Seattle University (Albers) Seattle, WA | 22 | +4 | NR |
| 20. MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA | NR | New to list | NA |
| 20. Thunderbird Phoenix, AR | NR | New to list | NA |
| 20. Marquette University Milwaukee, WI | 14 | -6 | NR |
| 23. University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA | NR | New to list | NA |
| 23. Southern Methodist (Cox) Dallas, TX | 14 | -9 | 14 |
SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report 2011 & 2010 Specialty Rankings for Executive MBAs, BusinessWeek 2009 poll of EMBA directors.
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