There is no other academic degree which is ranked and analyzed by so many publications and organizations as the MBA. While the most well-known rankings – US News and BusinessWeek – have been published for more than 10 years, new rankings from the Financial Times, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal have come out recently. US News is generally considered the best ranking, as their system is the most transparent, and their rankings always come closest to peoples’ common sense perception of relative prestige. There are three schools which have been ranked #1 by US News in the past ten.