A simple table tells an interesting story: Applications to two-year, residential MBA programs rose in double digits at 17 of Poets&Quants' Top 25 U.S. business schools from for the classes of 2014 to 2019. But no school has done better than the University of Washington's Foster School, followed by Yale University's School of Management, Michigan Ross and MIT Sloan, all of which have seen their apps grow by 40% plus.