The Princeton Review's "Best Business Schools for 2027" Rankings Are Out

Best MBA Programs—On-Campus and Online—Based on Surveys of Administrators at
439 B-Schools and of 37,600 Students Enrolled in the Programs

NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 / — The Princeton Review® —the education services company known for its test prep resources, tutoring, admissions services, and dozens of annual rankings of colleges and graduate schools—today published its lists of the Best Business Schools for 2027.

The lists are reported in two groups: Best On-Campus MBA Programs and Top Online MBA Programs. The school selections and rankings for 2027 are based on more than 60 data points derived from surveys The Princeton Review conducted in 2025–2026 of administrators at 439 business schools and of 37,600 students enrolled in the schools' MBA programs. The administrator and student surveys included more than 80 questions. (Further information about the surveys follows below.)

The Best On-Campus MBA Programs group—which recommends 208 programs overall for 2027—has 18 categories of rankings lists. Each one names the top 10 schools in the category. In this group, Northwestern University (IL) made the greatest number of ranking lists (12), including a #1 ranking in the category Best MBA for Marketing. Stanford University (CA), which made seven lists, ranked #1 on four of them: Best Career Prospects, Best Classroom Experience, Best MBA for Management, and Toughest to Get Into. (A list of the 18 categories and the #1 schools in each follows below.)

The Top Online MBA Programs group—which recommends 194 programs overall for 2027—reports a single list that names the top 50 programs in rank order. For a remarkable eighth year in a row, Indiana University—Bloomington is #1 on the list. (A short list showing the top 10 ranking schools follows below.)

“Since 2004, when we debuted our business school rankings, our purpose has been to give b-school applicants multiple resources to help them choose their best-fit school and MBA program," said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review's Editor-in-Chief.

"We don't believe any one business school is 'best' overall," he added. "Hierarchical rankings that crown a single b-school as 'best' are of limited value, as, ipso facto , the majority of applicants will hence attend a 'less than best' school. The b-schools we name to our lists differ importantly in program offerings, specializations, requirements, and campus culture. But they have foundational characteristics that are central to our selection criteria: strong academics, robust opportunities for experiential learning, excellent career services, and positive feedback from their customers, their very own students. We recommend every one of them for their distinctive MBA programs and we hope our project will bring distinctive, best-fit applicants their way."

The Best Business Schools for 2027 hub on PrinceonReview.com has links to the company's profiles of the schools. The profiles include stats, facts, application requirements and deadlines, student feedback about them and The Princeton Review's school ratings (scores on a scale of 60 to 99 in up to five areas). Rating categories range from Admissions Selectivity to Professors Accessible. Information about the project's administrator and student survey and rankings methodology is here.

The Princeton Review's Best On-Campus MBA Programs for 2027

18 Ranking Lists and #1 Schools on Each        

The 11 lists below are based on data from the administrator and student survey.

  • Best Career Prospects – #1 Stanford University (CA)
  • Best Classroom Experience – #1 Stanford University (CA)
  • Best MBA for Consulting – #1 Yale University (CT)
  • Best MBA for Finance – #1 Cornell University (NY)
  • Best MBA for Human Resources – #1 Brigham Young University (UT)
  • Best MBA for Management – #1 Stanford University (CA)
  • Best MBA for Marketing – #1 Northwestern University (IL)
  • Best MBA for Nonprofit – #1 Bard College (NY)
  • Best MBA for Operations – #1 Arizona State University
  • Greatest Resources for Minority Students – #1 Hofstra University (NY)
  • Greatest Resources for Women – #1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The six lists below are solely based on data from the student survey.

  • Best Administered – #1 Cornell University (NY)
  • Best Campus Environment – #1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Best Green MBA – #1 Bard College (NY)
  • Best Professors – #1 University of Virginia
  • Most Competitive Students – #1 Drexel University (PA)
  • Most Family-Friendly – #1 Cornell University (NY)

The list below is solely based on data from the administrator survey.

  • Toughest to Get Into – #1 Stanford University (CA

The Princeton Review's Top Online MBA Programs for 2027

Top 10 of the 50 Schools on the Ranking List

This list is based on data from the administrator and the student survey.

  1. Indiana University—Bloomington
  2. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  3. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
  4. Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University (VA)
  5. University of Iowa
  6. Rice University (TX)
  7. University of Nebraska—Lincoln
  8. Purdue University (IN)
  9. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  10. Texas Tech University

About The Princeton Review Best On-Campus MBA Programs Designations

The Princeton Review has reported its best on-campus MBA program designations and ranking lists since 2004. The list of 208 schools receiving a designation for 2027 is published on PrincetonReview.com in alphabetical order overall as well as alphabetical by region (Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, West, and International). The selection of schools for the overall list for 2027 and the tallies of the project's 18 ranking lists were based on data from the company's surveys of administrators at 245 business schools and of 24,250 students enrolled in the school's on-campus MBA programs in 2025–2026. The administrator survey requests data on the program's academics, selectivity, faculty, technical platforms, career services, and other topics. The student survey asks students to rate their program's academics, professors, technology, student body, campus life, and other topics as well as to report their satisfaction with their program and their career plans. 

About The Princeton Review Top Online MBA Programs Designations

The Princeton Review has reported its top online MBA program designations and ranking lists since 2015.  The list for 2027 names 194 schools in alphabetical order and the top 50 of that group in ranked order. The school selections and ranking list tally were based on data from the company's surveys in 2025–2026 of administrators at 194 schools offering online MBAs as well as more than 13,360 students enrolled in the online MBA programs. The survey of administrators requests data about the school’s admissions, selectivity, faculty training and credentials, technology infrastructure, graduation rates, and career outcomes of graduates as well as other topics. The survey of students asks them to rate their program's academics, professors, technology, student body and other topics, and to report on their satisfaction with the program and their career plans.

All institutions that participate in The Princeton Review surveys for its various "best" school designations and rankings are considered for the projects. Schools that do not participate in the surveys are not considered. 

Forthcoming School Designations & Ranking Lists from The Princeton Review

In August, The Princeton Review will report its 35th annual Best Colleges rankings in 50 categories. They will post on PrincetonReview.com and be published in which goes on sale August 18. In September, The Princeton Review will report its Best Value Colleges for 2027 and in October, its Best Law Schools for 2027 and its Guide to Green Colleges: 2027 Edition. In November, the company will report its lists of the Top Undergraduate and Graduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies for 2027, a project The Princeton Review conducts in partnership with magazine.

About The Princeton Review  

The Princeton Review is a leading tutoring, test prep, and college admissions services company. Every year, it helps millions of college- and graduate school–bound students as well as working professionals achieve their education and career goals through its many education services and products. These include online and in-person courses delivered by a network of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors; online resources; a of more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House; and dozens of categories of school rankings. The company's brand, now in its 26 th year, is one of the largest online tutoring services in the U.S. It comprises a community of thousands of tutors who have delivered more than 29 million tutoring sessions. The Princeton Review, U.S.-owned and operated, is headquartered in New York, NY. The company is not affiliated with Princeton University. For more information, visit PrincetonReview.com and the company’s Media Center. Follow the company on (@theprincetonreview), (the-princeton-review), (@ThePrincetonReview), and (@princeton.review).

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Contact: Jeanne Krier, Media Relations Director for The Princeton Review, pressoffice@review.com. 

NOTE TO EDITORS: Rob Franek, Editor-in-Chief of The Princeton Review and David Soto, Senior Director of Data Operations, are available for interviews. Lists of The Princeton Review's "Best Business Schools for 2027" are accessible two ways: alphabetical by school name and alphabetical by location. Each list indicates ranking lists (if any) a school made and its rank(s) on them.

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