USnews Rankings

Yep, its that time of the year when the rankings come out for the topp MBA schools in the US , bu the USnews website. But the fun is finding out the rankings before they are actually published on USnews's site . Well here they are :

1Harvard University (MA)
1Stanford University (CA)
3University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
4Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
4University of Chicago
7Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
7University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
9Columbia University (NY)
10New York University (Stern)
11University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
12University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)
13Yale University (CT)
14Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)
14University of Virginia (Darden)
14Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)
17Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA)
18University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
19University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
20Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)
21University of Southern California (Marshall)
22 ASU
23Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC)
24Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)
25 Rochester
26Wash U
27Ohio State University (Fisher)
28University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
29Georgia Institute of Technology
29Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)
29University of Wisconsin–Madison

Just to put things into prespective compared to previous years rankings :

Biggest Gainers : ( ranks moved up ).

University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson) -5
Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) -4
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) -3
Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC) -2
Stanford University (CA) -1
Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) -1
University of Chicago -1
University of California–Berkeley (Haas) -1
Yale University (CT) -1

Biggest Losers : ( ranks moved down )

Ohio State University (Fisher) 5
Emory University (Goizueta) (GA) 4
Georgia Institute of Technology 4
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson) 3
Duke University (Fuqua) (NC) 2
University of Virginia (Darden) 2
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross) 1
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) 1

Out of top 30 :

Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)
University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)
Michigan State University (Broad)
University of Washington

Well as you can imagine I am pretty happy that my future school (IU kelly) has moved up 4 spots and into the top 20. Though this post may make you think that I am a ranking buff but these are the USnews rankings for gods sake ....