Texas McCombs BBA No. 5 in 2021 U.S. News Rankings

McCombs’ undergraduate program maintained its top rank, including 12 business specialties ranked in the top 10

The McCombs School of Business held steady at No. 5 in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s undergraduate business program rankings.

This is the third time in the last four years that the Texas McCombs BBA has attained fifth place, and the 22nd straight year for it to make the top 10. The program’s score in the annual ranking, based entirely on peer school assessment, repeated last year’s historic high. The school tied with New York University.

McCombs and the University of Pennsylvania led with the highest number of top 10 specialties. Each school has 12 specialties of this caliber, which speaks to breadth of coverage as well as quality.

McCombs debuted at No. 5 in a new specialty added this year to represent the burgeoning field of business analytics.

The BBA program had six specialties place in the top five:

• Accounting: No. 1
• Marketing: No. 3
• Management: No. 4
• Finance: No. 5
• Management Information Systems: No. 5
• Business Analytics: No. 5

Other top specialties:

• Quantitative Analysis: No. 6
• Entrepreneurship: No. 7
• Production/Operations: No. 8
• Real Estate: No. 8
• Insurance: No. 10
• Supply Chain/Logistics: No. 10

U.S. News bases its undergraduate business rankings on surveys of deans and program directors of AACSB-accredited programs. More details about the methodology can be found on the U.S. News website.