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2026 U.S. News Online MBA Ranking (1-50) |
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2026 rank |
School |
2025 Rank |
YOY Change |
Enrollment |
Acceptance Rate |
| 1 | Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley) | 1 | 0 | 1,452 | 23% |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 3 | 1 | 257 | 69% |
| 3 | University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) | 2 | -1 | 531 | 57% |
| 4 | University of Washington (Foster) | 4 | 0 | 147 | 67% |
| 5 | University of Florida (Warrington) | 4 | -1 | 818 | 60% |
| 6 | University of Arizona (Eller) | 7 | 1 | 725 | 69% |
| 6 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 7 | 1 | 417 | 53% |
| 8 | Arizona State University (Carey) | 7 | -1 | 801 | 70% |
| 8 | University of Kansas | 7 | -1 | 566 | 64% |
| 10 | Oklahoma State University (Spears) | 11 | 1 | 492 | 27% |
| 10 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 11 | 1 | 369 | 49% |
| 10 | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross) | 6 | -4 | 500 | 49% |
| 13 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 11 | -2 | 38 | 40% |
| 14 | Ball State University (Miller) | 16 | 2 | 270 | 98% |
| 14 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 14 | 0 | 164 | 95% |
| 14 | University of Iowa (Tippie) | 25 | 11 | 1,603 | 83% |
| 14 | University of Massachusetts–Amherst (Isenberg) | 16 | 2 | 1,349 | 89% |
| 14 | University of South Florida (Muma) | 16 | 2 | 429 | 58% |
| 14 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 16 | 2 | 268 | 85% |
| 14 | University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium | 20 | 6 | 421 | 90% |
| 21 | Auburn University (Harbert) | 25 | 4 | 682 | 68% |
| 21 | Butler University (Lacy) | NA | NA | 193 | 88% |
| 21 | Florida State University | 20 | -1 | 471 | 68% |
| 21 | Rice University (Jones) | 25 | 4 | 408 | 73% |
| 21 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 33 | 12 | 252 | 84% |
| 26 | Florida International University (Chapman) | 33 | 7 | 735 | 58% |
| 26 | Kansas State University | 20 | -6 | 149 | 92% |
| 26 | Lehigh University | 42 | 16 | 229 | 79% |
| 26 | Loyola University Maryland (Sellinger) | 29 | 3 | 260 | 91% |
| 26 | University of California–Davis | 20 | -6 | 346 | 83% |
| 26 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 20 | -6 | 260 | 85% |
| 26 | University of Massachusetts–Lowell (Manning) | 33 | 7 | 1,342 | 94% |
| 33 | George Washington University | NA | NA | 314 | 86% |
| 33 | James Madison University | 25 | -8 | 141 | 84% |
| 33 | University of Maryland–College Park (Smith) | 14 | -19 | 290 | 74% |
| 33 | University of Mississippi | 33 | 0 | 119 | 66% |
| 33 | University of Missouri–St. Louis | 46 | 13 | 57 | 73% |
| 33 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 29 | -4 | 360 | 67% |
| 33 | University of Pittsburgh (Katz) | NA | NA | 247 | 78% |
| 33 | Virginia Tech | NA | NA | 83 | 91% |
| 33 | Washington State University (Carson) | 33 | 0 | 948 | 88% |
| 42 | Babson College (Olin) | 46 | 4 | 485 | 70% |
| 42 | Bryant University | 33 | -9 | 189 | 58% |
| 42 | Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) | NA | NA | 98 | 94% |
| 42 | Colorado State University | 46 | 4 | 679 | 70% |
| 42 | Creighton University (Heider) | 33 | -9 | 178 | 83% |
| 42 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | 42 | 0 | 433 | 71% |
| 42 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | NA | NA | 147 | 90% |
| 42 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | NA | NA | 216 | 98% |
| 50 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 42 | -8 | 227 | 95% |
| 50 | North Carolina A&T State University | NA | NA | 132 | 96% |
| 50 | Oregon State University | 46 | -4 | 309 | 97% |
| 50 | Pennsylvania State University–World Campus (Smeal) | 33 | -17 | 1,102 | 62% |
| 50 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 46 | -4 | 196 | 43% |
| 50 | Ohio State University (Fisher) | NA | NA | 370 | 65% |
| 50 | University of Cincinnati (Lindner) | NA | NA | 668 | 67% |
| 50 | Villanova University | 29 | -21 | 279 | 94% |
| 50 | William & Mary (Mason) | 33 | -17 | 352 | 85% |
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