Wharton Tops P&Q's 2025-2026 U.S. EMBA Ranking For A Second Time

Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business tied for 10th in P&Q’s composite EMBA ranking.

P&Q’s 2025-2026 Ranking of U.S. Executive MBAs, 1-25

Methodology: We used the 2024 rankings from U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, and QS to calculate our 2025-2026 composite. Ranks shown for FT and QS are the program’s U.S. rank, not the global ranking. The top school in each separate ranking was awarded 100 points, while second place awarded a school 99 points, and so on. We then calculated a weighted average of the three scores with U.S. News and FT weighing 40% and QS weighing 20%. That total then was put into an index score to rank the programs.

2025 P&Q Rank	School	Weighted average	2024 P&Q rank	YOY Change	2025 FT Rank (U.S.)	2025 U.S. News Rank	2025 QS Rank (U.S.)
1	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	99.2	1	0	2	1	3
2	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	98.2	2	0	3	2	4
3	University of Chicago (Booth)	96.6	3	0	5	3	6
4	MIT (Sloan)	96.4	11	7	1	10	1
5	UCLA (Anderson)	93.6	6	1	6	9	7
6	University of Michigan (Ross)	93.2	5	-1	7	7	11
7	Yale School of Management	93	7	0	4	15	2
8	New York University (Stern)	92	4	-4	10	8	9
9	Duke University (Fuqua)	91	15	6	14	5	12
10	Cornell University (Johnson)	88.4	9	-1	8	17	13
10	University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)	88.4	8	-2	11	12	17
12	Georgetown University (McDonough)	84.2	13	1	9	25	16
13	Emory University (Goizueta)	82.4	12	-1	15	17	29
14	University of Utah (Eccles)	72.8	26	12	18	21	63
15	Columbia Business School	57.4	14	-1	NR	4	8
16	University of California, Berkeley (Haas)	57.2	27	11	NR	6	5
17	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	52	16	-1	NR	14	15
18	University of Southern California (Marshall)	51.8	38	20	NR	17	10
19	Texas A&M University (Mays)	51.2	17	-2	13	NR	21
20	Vanderbilt (Owen)	49.4	28	8	15	NR	26
21	University of Maryland (Smith)	48.6	30	9	19	NR	22
22	Michigan State (Eli Broad)	48.4	34	12	12	NR	37
22	University of California, Irvine (Merage)	48.4	24	2	21	NR	19
24	Fordham University (Gabelli)	47	10	-14	NR	13	42
25	University of Virginia (Darden)	45.6	33	8	20	NR	35
25	Rutgers Business School	45.6	29	4	NR	21	33

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