Best MBA Schools

When you are going to spend $100,000 on a two-year MBA degree, it pays you to make sure that you get it from a top college. Almost everyone can name one or two most popular business schools - these include Harvard Business School, made famous in books such as "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School", and Stanford Graduate School of Business. However, for an average student looking to get a business degree, it is hard to come up with the top ten MBA schools in US without looking it up somewhere. That is why we present to you this list of the seven best MBA schools in the US. All the following colleges have come up tops in the rankings of magazines such as Financial Times, The Economist and the Business Week.

Harvard Business School When someone talks about the best business school in the world, they are most likely talking about Harvard. The question of the best B-school is a tough one, with no objective criteria to make the judgment, but it is widely agreed that Harvard is definitely one of the best B-schools in the world. With alumni that includes such luminaries as George W. Bush, Jeffrey Immelt, Meg Whitman, Robert Kraft, Ratan Tata, Robert McNamara, the reputation is well-deserved.

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Popularly known just as Wharton, it is one of the worlds oldest business schools, established in 1881. Wharton offers B.S. and M.B.A; it also has an Ph.D. program, apart from other diploma programs. Though the student to faculty ratio of this school is pretty high at 17:1, the faculty here is notable for being the world's most cited and published among all business schools.

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University Ranked the top b-school in the world by the Economist magazine, Tuck school of Business is one of the six Ivy League business schools ( the other five are: Harvard, Wharton, Columbia Business School, Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management at Cornell, and Yale School of Management).

Stanford University Graduate School of Business This school offers a MBA program, the ten-month long Sloan master's program, and a Ph.D. program along with other joint degrees in sciences etc with other schools at Stanford University.

Columbia Business School of the Columbia University Located in Manhattan, New York City, the school has the rare distinction of being associated with as many as thirteen Nobel Prize winners in Economics. Getting into Columbia School of Business can be a tough nut to crack with the school having an acceptance rate of only 15%.

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Ranked second by Economist, it was known as University of Chicago Graduate School of Business before 2008, when it was renamed following the grant of an $300 million endowment by alumnus David G. Booth. The school has two additional campuses in Singapore and London, apart from two campuses in Chicago, USA.

Haas School of Management, University of California at Berkeley Apart from a full-time MBA program, the school also offers Evening/Weekend MBA program, a Ph.D. program, undergraduate courses, Master of Financial Engineering program and an Executive Education program.