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NOTRE DAME TAKES TOP SPOT ONCE AGAIN It’s business as usual for the three schools at the top of the 2013 Best Undergraduate Business Schools ranking. Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business retains the top spot for the fourth year in a row, the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce holds the second spot for the fourth consecutive year, and Cornell’s Dyson School of Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management is again No. 3. But as the following table reveals, there is a good deal of fluctuation in the ranks beyond the top three

Students with Job Median 2012 Annual Full-time Average internships placement starting School rank tuition ($) enrollment class size (%) (%) salary ($) Top employers include Notre Dame (Mendoza) 1 42,464 1,928 33.0 88.3 90.0 57,000 , Ernst & Young, Notre Dame, Ind PricewaterhouseCoopers Virginia (McIntire) 2 9,622 685 41.0 90.0 97.0 60,000 Ernst & Young, Charlottesville, Va PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG Cornell (Dyson) 3 27,045 696 48.0 93.2 71.0 58,922 Ernst & Young, JPMorgan Ithaca, NY Chase, PricewaterhouseCoopers Washington University 8 44,100 761 49.0 89.9 98.0 62,000 Capitol One, Citigroup, (Olin) St Louis Anheuser-Busch InBev Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4 39,088 2,545 36.0 93.7 94.5 70,000 , Philadelphia Consulting Group, Credit Suisse Boston College (Carroll) 9 43,140 1,956 37.0 93.0 92.0* 60,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston Ernst & Young, Deloitte Emory (Goizueta) 5 42,400 698 43.1 86.6 91.0 60,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Citigroup Michigan (Ross) 7 13,040 1,328 62.5 93.8 91.0 65,000 Deloitte, , Ann Arbor, Mich Texas (McCombs) 17 10,738 4,093 50.0 88.9 100.0* 55,000 Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Austin Deloitte North Carolina (Kenan- 10 5,823 678 41.0 94.5 97.0 60,000 Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC Deloitte UC Berkeley (Haas) 11 14,985 690 19.0 88.6 86.0 60,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Berkeley, Calif Deloitte & Touche Brigham Young (Marriott) 21 4,710 1,533 40.0 70.6 57.0 51,000 Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, Provo, Utah PricewaterhouseCoopers Indiana (Kelley) 16 8,750 4,713 31.0 84.6 93.0 55,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bloomington, Ind Ernst & Young, Deloitte NYU (Stern) 12 41,358 2,438 41.7 93.2 67.0 63,250 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Goldman New York Sachs, Ernst & Young Villanova 13 42,150 1,555 29.7 94.4 87.0 55,000 Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Villanova, Pa KPMG Note: In-state tuition shown for state schools. Average class size is for core business courses. Except where noted, job placement is the percentage of 2012 graduates who received or accepted job offers within three months of graduation. Source: Bloomberg