DiscoverThe mbaMission PodcastEp 59 | The Best MBA Programs Outside of the M7
Ep 59 |  The Best MBA Programs Outside of the M7

Ep 59 | The Best MBA Programs Outside of the M7

Update: 2025-07-15
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Most MBA applicants are familiar with the M7 -- or "Magnificent Seven" -- a group of seven highly selective business schools that are consistently ranked among the best in the United States. In today's episode of the mbaMission podcast, we're posing the question: If the M7 became the M8, which MBA program would be added to this prestigious list? For this discussion we're joined by Poets&Quants founder and editor-in-chief, John Byrne, who originated the term "M7" and has been covering business education for decades.

01:34 Which business school would make the M8?
01:22 How was the M7 formed?
06:27 Yale SOM
08:02 Dartmouth Tuck
11:42 Berkeley Haas
12:54 Duke Fuqua 
19:01 Michigan Ross
20:12 INSEAD
22:41 London Business School
24:48 NYU Stern
30:12 UVA Darden 
35:43 Cornell Johnson 
39:34 Texas McCombs 
41:37 HEC, IESE, Cambridge Judge, Oxford Said 
43:30 Georgetown McDonough 
44:36 Vanderbilt Owen, Johns Hopkins Carey, WashU Olin 

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Ep 59 |  The Best MBA Programs Outside of the M7

Ep 59 | The Best MBA Programs Outside of the M7

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