US MBA RANKINGS

MBA applications worldwide are expected to increase dramatically in 2007, as candidates gain more confidence in post-MBA employment opportunities. The 2005-6 admissions season saw a rise of more than a third at top schools such as Haas, Wharton, and Yale. The number of MBA candidates has been increasing steadily, following a significant decline in the early years of the millennium. QS TopMBA, which runs the World MBA Tour, the world’s largest programme of business school information fairs, reports over 59,000 candidates attended their fairs in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006, an 8% increase on the previous year. Additionally, the number of GMAT test takers has grown by at least 3.9% worldwide, within the first five months of 2006, according to the Graduate Management Admissions Council.

Here's a glance over the the top MBA institutes in US

US News Rank	Business Week Rank	University
1	5	Harvard University (MA)
1	9	Stanford University (CA)
3	1	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4	15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
5	2	Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
6	6	Columbia University (NY)
6	3	University of Chicago
8	7	Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)
9	4	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
10	16	University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
11	10	Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
11	12	University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)
11	11	University of Virginia (Darden)
14	13	New York University (Stern)
15	8	Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)
16	18	University of Texas–Austin
16	20	Yale University (CT)
18	19	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
19	14	Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
20	21	Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)
21		Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)
22	25	University of Southern California (Marshall)
23	24	Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)
24		Vanderbilt University (Owen) (TN)
25		Ohio State University (Fisher)
25		University of Rochester (Simon) (NY)
25	17	Washington University (Olin)
28		University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
29		Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC)
30		Michigan State University (Broad)
31		University of Arizona (Eller)
32		Arizona State University–Main Campus
32		Tulane University (Freeman) (LA)
34		Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) (OH)
34		Penn State University–University Park (Smeal)
34		Rice University (Jones) (TX)
34		Thunderbird Graduate School (AZ)
34	22	University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)
34	23	University of Wisconsin–Madison
40		Boston College (Carroll)
40		University of California–Irvine
42		Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT)
42		Georgia Institute of Technology (DuPree)
42		Southern Methodist University (Cox) (TX)
42		Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)
42		University of California–Davis
42		Wake Forest University (Babcock) (NC)
48		University of Georgia (Terry)
48		University of Illinois– Urbana-Champaign
48		University of Notre Dame (IN)