This is Stanford’s breakout year. Tied for three years with Harvard as No. 1 in the US News rankings, the California school moved into undisputed No. 1 status for 2011. Stanford’s Graduate School of Business enrolls about 800 students. The school offers an MBA or Ph.D. in seven different areas, and students can opt for dual degrees with Stanford’s schools of law, engineering, medicine, education school, humanities and sciences, or earth sciences. Stanford not only has the highest ranking of business schools, it has the highest tuition among the Top 5: $53,118 per year.
The Princeton Review also ranked Stanford as the “toughest to get into.” Bloomberg Businessweek, however, ranked it as No. 5 among US business schools – a hint, perhaps, of how suggestive these rankings of the crème de la crème really are.
