BusinessWeek ranks part-time MBA programs:
- UCLA (Anderson)
- Emory University
- USC (Marshall)
- Loyola Marymount University
- Lehigh University
- University of Denver
- University of Chicago
- Loyola University - Chicago
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Drexel University (LeBow)
- Villanova University
- Elon University (Love)
- Southern Methodist University (Cox)
- Richmond (Robins)
- Boston University
- University of Washington (Foster)
- University of Nevada, Reno
- Indiana University - Southeast
- Georgia State (Robinson)
- Washington (Olin)
- Ohio State University (Fisher)
- Wake Forest (Babcock)
- Rollins College (Crummer)
- Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
- New York University (Stern)
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- Houston (Bauer)
- Boston College (Carroll)
- U. Mass. - Amherst (Isenberg)
- Texas-Austin (McCombs)
BusinessWeeks surveys for the rankings every two years and scores each school in the following criteria, with explanations from BusinessWeek:
- The student survey: "This comprises approximately 50 equally weighted questions measuring every aspect of student satisfaction with the MBA experience—from teaching to course content to career outcomes—as well as additional questions about the person completing the survey."
- Goals Measure: "Through a series of questions in the student survey, we determine the percentage of respondents in three distinct categories who say their MBA program was "completely" or "somewhat" important in achieving their goals. The categories are "career advancers" who are seeking career advancement with their current employer; "job switchers" who are seeking career advancement with a new employer in the same industry; and "career changers" who want to change industries, functional areas, or both."
- Academic Quality: "This consists of six equally weighted measures: average GMAT scores for part-time MBA students, average work experience for part-time MBA students, the percentage of all teachers in the part-time MBA program who are tenured faculty, average class size in core business classes, total number of business electives available to part-time MBA students, and the completion rate for students in the part-time MBA program. This is supplied to BusinessWeek by the schools themselves, when they complete the school survey."