BUSINESSWEEK’S RANKINGS OF EMBA PROGRAMS OVER THE YEARS
2009 Ranking & School | 2007 | 2005 | 2003 | 2001 | 1991 |
1. Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2. Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL, London & Singapore | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3. Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA & San Francisco, CA | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
4. Columbia Business School New York, NY | 6 | NR | 15 | 18 | 7 |
5. Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA | 5 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 8 |
6. IE Business School Madrid, Spain | 15 | NR | NR | NR | NR |
7. Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI | 4 | 4 | NR | NR | NR |
8. UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA | 8 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 5 |
9. Southern Methodist (Cox) Dallas, TX | 11 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 |
10. Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC | 9 | 9* | 4 | 4 | 4 |
11. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | NR |
12. Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA | 7 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 15 |
13. IESE Business School Barcelona, Spain | 17 | 15 | NR | NR | NR |
14. New York (Stern) New York, NY | 19 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 11 |
15. Ohio State (Fisher) Columbus, OH | 14 | 13 | NR | NR | NR |
16. IMD Lausanne, Switzerland | 16 | 7 | 6 | 13 | NR |
17. ESADE Barcelona, Spain | 21 | NR | NR | NR | NR |
18. Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, DC | 12 | 10 | 11 | 9 | NR |
19. INSEAD Fontainebleu, France & Singapore | 18 | NR | NR | NR | NR |
20. Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN | NR | 20 | NR | NR | NR |
21. Case Western (Weatherhead) Cleveland, OH | NR | NR | 21 | NR | 10 |
22. Texas-Dallas Dallas, TX | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR |
23. Boston University Boston, MA | NR | NR | NR | 22 | NR |
24. London Business School London, UK | 20 | 25 | 23 | 23 | NR |
25. Queen’s University Kingston, Canada | 23 | 21 | NR | 24 | NR |
Source: BusinessWeek
* Duke’s Global EMBA program was ranked ninth, while its Weekend EMBA program was ranked 11th by BusinessWeek in 2005.
NR — Not ranked. Many schools were unranked in earlier years because they didn’t yet have EMBA programs or they simply didn’t make the BusinessWeek list.
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