

WashU surged eight spots this year thanks to finishing third in the admissions category and fourth in career outcomes. The Olin Business School is the only other school besides Wharton to have placed first in our ranking when it did just that in the inaugural ranking six years ago. USC placed second in the admissions category, eighth in alumni experience, and 11th in career outcomes. Akin to Wharton, Georgetown’s undergraduate business program had a very balanced approach, placing fourth in admissions, second in career outcomes, and first in the alumni experience category.Īnd for the first time ever, the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business submitted a school survey and met the minimum alumni survey response rate of 10%, and debuted at No. Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business jumped three spots from fifth last year into second this year to earn its highest spot in our ranking. The Wharton School isn’t the only B-school doing a lot of things right, to be sure. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DEBUTS IN TOP-THREE The main reason? Wharton has continuously aced the admissions and employment outcomes categories while holding its own in the alumni experience area to top all other schools. P&Q has been ranking undergraduate business schools for six years now, and the past five of those years have seen The Wharton School surge to the top of our proprietary ranking, which includes both school and alumni surveys. In other words, admissions standards, student experience, and career outcomes.įor five straight years, no school has done that better than the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. At Poets&Quants, we believe an undergraduate business experience is measured by three broad components: the quality and diversity of students enrolling in a program, the ability of a B-school to nurture, challenge, and grow those young minds, and how the market and world’s top employers respond to those graduates when leaving the business school.
