Thirty years after launching the MBA rankings game, Bloomberg Businessweek decided to "modernize" its list of the best business schools. The new methodology caused many changes, including a new winner: Stanford Graduate School of Business
| 2018 Rank & School | Y-O-Y Change | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Stanford GSB | 44 | 55 | 22 | 77 | 44 |
| 2. Wharton | ———————— | 22 | 66 | 55 | 22 |
| 3. Harvard | -2-2 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 88 |
| 4. MIT (Sloan) | -1-1 | 33 | 77 | 44 | 1414 |
| 5. Chicago (Booth) | -1-1 | 44 | 44 | 22 | 33 |
| 6. UC-Berkeley (Has) | 55 | 1111 | 1010 | 99 | 1919 |
| 7. Columbia | 22 | 99 | 1111 | 66 | 55 |
| 8. Northwestern (Kellogg) | ———————— | 88 | 99 | 33 | 77 |
| 9. Virginia (Darden) | 88 | 1717 | 1212 | 1212 | 2020 |
| 10. Cornell (Johnson) | 33 | 1313 | 1616 | 1313 | 77 |
| 11. Yale SOM | 55 | 1616 | 1414 | 1111 | 66 |
| 12. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 22 | 1414 | 1515 | 1818 | 1010 |
| 13. New York (Stern) | 55 | 1818 | 1717 | 2424 | 2222 |
| 13. Southern California (Marshall) | 1717 | 3030 | 3838 | 2525 | 2121 |
| 15. Duke (Fuqua) | -9-9 | 66 | 33 | 88 | 11 |
| 16. Washington (Foster) | -1-1 | 1515 | 1919 | 2020 | 3737 |
| 17. UCLA (Anderson) | 22 | 1919 | 2222 | 1313 | 1111 |
| 18. Michigan (Ross) | -6-6 | 1212 | 1313 | 1010 | 99 |
| 19. Dartmouth (Tuck) | -12-12 | 77 | 55 | 1414 | 1515 |
| 20. Georgetown (McDonough) | 1515 | 3535 | 3434 | 2626 | 2424 |
| 21. Vanderbilt (Owen) | 1313 | 3434 | 3232 | 3434 | 3030 |
| 22. Texas-Austin (McCombs) | -2-2 | 2020 | 2121 | 2121 | 2323 |
| 23. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 11 | 2424 | 2424 | 1717 | 1212 |
| 24. Emory (Goizueta) | -3-3 | 2121 | 2020 | 1515 | 1818 |
| 25. Brigham Young (Marriott) | -2-2 | 2323 | 2323 | 2727 | 2727 |
