University of Chicago Business School Tops Business Week Survey

By Patrick Cole

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business is the best in the U.S., according to a Business Week magazine's 2006 survey of the best business schools.

Chicago ranked second in Business Week's last survey, in 2004, took first place because Dean Edward Snyder added "weekly breakfasts with students'' and "improved support services,'' the magazine said in a news release today.

Chicago was followed by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, which was ranked first in the 2004 poll; Harvard Business School and the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Applications to business programs are increasing, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, in McLean, Virginia, which administers the standardized test known as the GMAT that most business schools require for admission.

The Princeton Review, in its rankings last week, rated Harvard University's MBA program the toughest to get into, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania as the best total experience and Stanford University as offering the best prospects of finding a good job after graduation.

Among the other rankings of business schools, U.S. News & World Report ranked Harvard as No. 1; the Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey put the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in first Place, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, a unit of the Economist Group, in London, called the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, in Spain, the best in the world.

To contact the reporter on this story: Patrick Cole in New York at pcole3@Bloomberg.net .

Last Updated: October 12, 2006 17:31 EDT

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