Bloomberg and U.S. News & World Report have some conflicts regarding the nation's top three business schools. In 2009, Bloomberg's surveys ranked Notre Dame's Mendoza School of Business as the best in the country, followed by the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). U.S. News, by contrast, in 2009, listed MIT as tied for second in the country with the University of California-Berkeley, with the University of Pennsylvania taking the top spot.
While Penn takes first place on U.S. News and World Report's 2009 list, it only managed fourth place according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg ranked Cornell University fifth, with the University of California-Berkeley earning Bloomberg's sixth spot. The University of Michigan took the fourth slot on U.S. News & World Report's list, with New York University earning fifth and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Virginia tying for sixth.
The University of Texas came in at Number Ten on Bloomberg's 2009 list, with Emory University, the University of Michigan and Boston College earning the seventh, eighth and ninth rankings, respectively. Due to the three-way tie for sixth place on U.S. News & World Report's 2009 list, the rankings jumped to ninth place, claimed by Carnegie Mellon University. Cornell University, ranked fifth on Bloomberg's 2009 list, rounded out U.S. News & World Report's list of the Best Business Colleges.