Top Schools for Industry Focus Areas
Here’s a list of top schools for different industry focuses. These rankings are based on general prestige, program strengths, industry connections, and alumni success in each field.
1. Healthcare
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Columbia Business School
- Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)
- UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- NYU Stern School of Business
- Duke Fuqua School of Business
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2. Consulting
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- INSEAD
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Business School
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- London Business School
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
- Dartmouth Tuck School of Business
3. Marketing
- Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Business School
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- NYU Stern School of Business
- Duke Fuqua School of Business
- Berkeley Haas School of Business
- UCLA Anderson School of Management
4. Real Estate
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Business School
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
- NYU Stern School of Business
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
- Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
5. Government & Public Policy
- Harvard Kennedy School
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Columbia Business School
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- Yale School of Management
- Duke Fuqua School of Business
- Oxford Saïd Business School
6. Energy & Sustainability
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Business School
- Yale School of Management
- University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
- London Business School
7. Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Columbia Business School
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- INSEAD
- Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)
- London Business School
- UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
8. Supply Chain & Operations
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)
- Wharton (University of Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Business School
- UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Indiana Kelley School of Business
- University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
- Duke Fuqua School of Business
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
This list is by no means exhaustive but provides a general overview of the top schools for each field, based on their program strengths, faculty expertise, and industry ties.