<p>Booth has been ranked No. 1 from the mid-90s through now in almost every year that B’school rankings have come out from the only publications that matter for B’schools: Business Week and The Economist/Financial Times. US News is not much of a business publication (and really is not much of a publication period) and no one in the business world quite seems to pay much attention to it. A major component of Business Week and Economist/Financial Times rankings is job placement/perceived quality by employers and academia, in which Booth pretty much beats all others. The only reason Booth used to do poorly in these rankings prior to the mid-90s was that it was too hard and too quantitative an program, and most liberal arts background students used to struggle in it (in fact, it was considered by far the most rigorous b’school alongwith UVa Darden, with Kellogg at the other extreme of being the easiest top b’school). Stanford was also at the harder end, Wharton and Duke in the middle and HBS also slightly easier than the median. The joke used to be don’t ask an HBS grad to add two 3-digit numbers or you are going to get a long story about why it is not important to add numbers but to understand why numbers are important, without getting a real answer to either question after wasting much time.</p>
<p>Booth started getting ranked higher again after it watered down its program in the early 90s to make it more palatable to non-quants. It has remained at the top since then (other than in the US News rankings).</p>
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