Ranking the Best

Stanford again takes the top spot, followed by Harvard and Chicago in second

- Dimitra Kessenides

Transitional may be the best way to describe the past two-plus years for MBA students and schools running full-time professional programs.

Since 2020, with Covid-19 cases spiking around the world, business school leaders, educators, and employees have been in a state of constant adjustment. Schools developed protocols and tested digital tools for remote learning, aiming to ensure seamless education at the level expected with a high degree of flexibility. For many of the 117 programs in this year’s Best B-Schools list, the past few months have marked the fullest return to normalcy since the onset of the pandemic. What does a return to campus look like—and are the pandemic adjustments fully a thing of the past?