Olin’s undergraduate program remains at #14 for the second consecutive year on the U.S. News ranking. The BSBA finance program is ranked #16 and marketing is #21. The undergraduate business school rankings are based solely on the judgments of deans and senior faculty at peer institutions gathered via a survey conducted in the spring.

U.S. News changed its methodology this year by using survey responses from the two most recent years instead of the current year only. In 2015, 37 percent of those surveyed responded. The rankings of the specialty areas such as finance and marketing are based solely on the spring 2015 survey and respondents are asked to nominate the 10 best programs in each business area. For a complete explanation of the undergraduate business programs methodology, click here.

U.S. News also released its survey of Best Colleges. Washington University in St. Louis was ranked #15 in the National University category. For the methodology used in this ranking, click here.