Forbes best business school rankings are out . Forbes survey ranks schools based on return on investment--meaning compensation five years after graduation minus tuition and the forgone salary during school. The top part-time school, Stern's Langone Part-time M.B.A. Program, had a median five-year gain of $166,000, greatly helped by the absence of forgone salary. That sum beats the $134,000 gain of our top-ranked full-time program, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In a combined ranking of part-time and full-time U.S. programs, Tuck and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School are the only full-time schools that would make the top five. (For the first time, Harvard Business School is not the top-ranked school.)
The Top Ten
Dartmouth
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Columbia
Yale
Stanford
Harvard
Virginia
Cornell
Northwestern