Texas MBA Hits No. 15 in Fortune

McCombs again takes top 15 in Fortune’s ranking of full-time MBA programs

The Hildebrand Full-Time MBA landed at No. 15 among 72 ranked schools in Fortune magazine’s Best Business Schools and MBA Programs for 2026.

The top three positions in the fifth annual ranking went to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Columbia University, and Northwestern University.

Among public schools, McCombs came in No. 4 behind business schools at the University of Virginia (8), University of Michigan (11), and University of California-Berkeley (12).

This marks the second time for the MBA to land in the top 15 and the fifth time in the top 20.

Fortune’s methodology saw a significant overall this year.  Fifty-five percent of the ranking’s weight relied on student outcomes like starting salary, the percentage employed, and graduation rate, while the remainder was distributed among admissions criteria (25%), program stability and size (15%), and cost (5%).  The score previously assigned to the number of alumni in Fortune 1000 C-Suite positions was abandoned and the weight distributed throughout the other components.