2016 Best Graduate Schools Preview: Top 10 Business Schools

Thinking about applying to graduate school? Whether you're interested in pursuing an MBA or attending law school or medical school, there are some big decisions to make. To help students find the right school for them, U.S. News & World Report surveys nearly 1,900 graduate schools and programs and ranks them according to our methodology.

Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2016 Best Graduate Schools rankings.

U.S. News surveyed 464 accredited master's programs in business. In alphabetical order, here are the top 10 highest-ranked full-time MBA programs.

School (name) (state)

Columbia University (NY)

Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)

Harvard University (MA)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)

Stanford University (CA)

University of California--Berkeley (Haas)

University of Chicago (Booth)

University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

University of Virginia (Darden)

The actual ranking and score of these and other graduate schools -- including those offering part-time and executive MBA programs -- will be available March 10, 2015, on usnews.com. Use the #BestGradSchools hashtag to continue the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.

For more in-depth rankings, searchable data and an expanded directory of programs, sign up for the U.S. News Business School Compass.