2012 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 Business Programs

Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications, and then, if you're lucky, choosing among the acceptance letters to find your home away from home for the next few years. To put you on that path, each year, U.S. News surveys more than 1,600 colleges and universities and ranks them in different categories according to our methodology.
Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2012 Best Colleges rankings.
In alphabetical order, these are the schools that offer the top 10 best undergraduate business programs:

School (State)
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA)
Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
New York University (Stern)
University of California--Berkeley (Haas)
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
University of Southern California (Marshall)
University of Texas—Austin (McCombs)
University of Virginia (McIntire)

(Note: due to ties, there are more than 10 schools listed here.)