It places the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School at the top, followed by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, New York University's Stern School of Business, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School.
The business schools of Columbia, in New York, the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, Stanford in California and Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, for example, have teamed up behind Cardean University, an early effort at an online institution for tertiary education.