E-Business Programs The top business schools, ranked independently by US News(33 schools)and Business Week(30 schools), were selected as our sample. Since the two rankings have a fairly high degree of overlap, and some of the schools do not offer e-business courses, we came up with a total of 38 schools in our sample(Table 1). The US News' ranking is for the top I University of Pennsylvanis Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Harvard r(Sloan) ty of North Carolina-Chapel Hill- New York University Comell (Johnson) Cities* Dartmouth(Tuck)* as-Austin(McCombs) ase Western Reserve University* nd-College Park. University of Washington* niversity(Olin) (McDonough) Emory(Goizueta Texas A&M University-College Station* niversity of Georgia Wake Forest University* (Source: US News Undergraduate Business Program Ranking 2001 Business Weck's MBA Ranking 2001) -business programs used in the analysis. Those listed twice(that is, once across both lists)are only once. All e-business programs and courses were reviewed at both graduate and undergraduate levels within each university. Total= 38 Table I. U.S. business school rankings 168 December 2003/ol.46. No. I2ve COMMUNICATIONS OFTHE ACME-Business Programs The top business schools, ranked independently by US News (33 schools) and Business Week (30 schools), were selected as our sample. Since the two rankings have a fairly high degree of overlap, and some of the schools do not offer e-business courses, we came up with a total of 38 schools in our sample (Table 1). The US News’ ranking is for the top 168 December 2003/Vol. 46, No. 12ve COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Rank US News Business Week 1 University of Pennsylvania* University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology* University of Michigan-Ann Arbor* Northwestern (Kellogg)* 3 Harvard 4 University of California-Berkeley* MIT (Sloan) 5 Carnegie Mellon University* University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill* University of Texas-Austin* Duke (Fuqua) 6 Michigan 7 Columbia 8 New York University* University of Virginia* Cornell (Johnson) 9 Virginia (Darden) 10 Indiana University-Bloomington* University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign University of Wisconsin-Madison* Chicago 11 Stanford* 12 UCLA (Andersen)* 13 Purdue University-Lafayette* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities* University of Southern California* NYU (Stern) 14 Carnegie Mellon 15 UNC-Chapel Hill 16 Emory University* Ohio State University-Columbus* Washington University in St. Louis Dartmouth (Tuck)* 17 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 18 UC Berkeley (Haas) 19 Michigan State University* Pennsylvania State University-University Park Yale* 20 Indiana 21 Babson College* Case Western Reserve University* University of Arizona* University of Florida* University of Maryland-College Park* University of Notre Dame* University of Washington* Rochester (Simon)* 22 Vanderbilt (Owen)* 23 Washington University (Olin) 24 USC (Marshall) 25 Purdue (Krannert) 26 Georgetown (McDonough) 27 Maryland (Smith) 28 Arizona State University* Georgetown University* Texas A&M University-College Station* University of Georgia* University of Iowa* Wake Forest University* Emory (Goizueta) 29 Michigan State (Broad) 30 Georgia Tech (DuPree)* (Source: US News Undergraduate Business Program Ranking 2001 & Business Week’s MBA Ranking 2001) *E-business programs used in the analysis. Those listed twice (that is, once across both lists) are marked only once. All e-business programs and courses were reviewed at both graduate and undergraduate levels within each university. Total = 38. Table 1. U.S. business school rankings