WashU Olin’s Full-Time MBA crashes top 25 in P&Q’s latest ranking

Citing a major overhaul of the WashU Olin MBA and placing Olin’s program among “the most surprising moves up and down the list,” Poets & Quants ranked Olin #23 in its recent list of the top full-time MBA programs in the United States.

The new ranking shows continued momentum for WashU Olin’s program among the MBA ranking publications. Indeed, the Poets & Quants ranking reflects that momentum, as it is a composite of the five most influential lists of MBA programs.

Those include US News, the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and the Economist, which published its last ranking of MBA programs in 2022. The P&Q ranking was released on December 26.

Olin moved up six spots in the P&Q ranking, again reflecting the program’s strong employment statistics, its faculty research and teaching, its commitment to diversity and entrepreneurship and its focus on global business savvy.

The ranking’s value as a composite shows an overall trend of improvement across the board, moderating the volatility that can sometimes occur in rankings. P&Q cited Olin’s MBA overhaul, which included a focus on global business education and included additional flexibility in coursework and timing as well as the addition of a STEM designation.