University of Texas -Austin maintained its position as the best accounting school in the US, ranked as the number one program by U.S. News and World Report 2010. Wharton School of Business is the 2nd best in the league table. It was the first established business college in America.

Ranking Analysis:
- Indiana Uni Bloomington jumped to Top 10 from 11th last year.
- Notre Dame up a place to 13th this year.
- Both Columbia and Florida dropped to equal 17th (from 14th in 2009 Accounting school ranking).
- Harvard dropped from 14th to 23rd.
- Univ of Georgia moved into Top 20 (from 22nd).
- MIT dropped from 24th to equal 29th.
- Duke up 9 places from 26th to 17th.

2010 Best Graduate Accounting Schools:
1 University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
3 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
4 University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL
5 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
6 University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA
7 Stanford University Stanford, CA
8 Brigham Young University (Marriott) Provo, UT
9 New York University (Stern) New York, NY
10 Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN
11 Uni of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC
12 Ohio State Uni (Fisher) Columbus, OH
13 Uni of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN
14 Northwestern Uni (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
15 Uni of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
     Uni of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA
17 Columbia Uni New York, NY
   Duke Uni (Fuqua) Durham, NC
   Uni of Florida (Hough) Gainesville, FL
20 Uni of Georgia (Terry) Athens, GA
21 Michigan State Uni (Broad) East Lansing, MI
     Uni of Iowa (Tippie) Iowa City, IA
23 Cornell Univ (Johnson) Ithaca, NY
     Harvard Univ Boston, MA
25 Arizona State Univ (Carey) Tempe, AZ
    Texas A&M Univ--College Station (Mays) College Station, TX
    Univ of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA
    Univ of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY
29 Loyola Marymount Univ Los Angeles, CA
     Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA

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