The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia topped U.S. News & World Report‘s 2025 ranking of executive MBA programs.
The April ranking is part of the media company’s broader Best Business Schools list, which primarily evaluates full-time, campus-based MBA programs based on career outcomes, student excellence and expert assessments.
The executive MBA ranking is based solely on peer assessments. Business school deans and directors from 133 eligible MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business were asked to nominate up to 15 programs they consider excellent.
The top business schools for executive MBAs:
1. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
2. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
3. University of Chicago Booth School of Business
4. Columbia University (New York City)
5. The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (Durham, N.C.)
6. The Walter A. Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley
7. University of Michigan Ross School of Business (Ann Arbor)
8. NYU Stern School of Business (New York City)
9. UCLA Anderson School of Management (Los Angeles)
10. MIT Sloan School of Management (Cambridge, Mass.)
11. The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara (Calif.) University
12. The McCombs School of Business at University of Texas-Austin
13. Fordham Gabelli School of Business (New York City)
14. Kenan-Flagler Business School (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
15. Yale School of Management (New Haven, Conn.)
Read more about the methodology here.
