Business Analytics Research Rankings

As data-driven decision-making becomes central to modern business, the scientific and practical value of business analytics research continues to grow. This ranking, based on large-scale data from a wide array of journal and conference papers covering varied topics and approaches, offers a holistic assessment of the current state of business analytics research.

By identifying top institutions in this field, we provide a valuable resource for scholars, educators, practitioners, and students navigating this dynamic and interdisciplinary domain. We also hope insights from this ranking can shape the future direction of business analytics research which helps to address complex business challenges.

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Rank	Institution	Number of Faculty 2024 ▼ Sort	Scholarly Output 2020-2024 ▼ Sort	Papers per Faculty ▼ Sort	Papers on A-List ▼ Sort	A-List Per faculty ▼ Sort
1	University of Texas at Dallas	49	337	6.88	198	4.04
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	24	495	20.63	164	6.83
3	Arizona State University	50	408	8.16	128	2.56
4	New York University	33	385	11.67	124	3.76
5	Indiana University Bloomington	36	279	7.75	99	2.75
6	University of Maryland at College Park	28	324	11.57	98	3.50
7	Purdue University	25	203	8.12	97	3.88
8	University of Southern California	32	287	8.97	91	2.84
9	Temple University	20	185	9.25	88	4.40
10	Pennsylvania State University	26	175	6.73	87	3.35
11	University of California Los Angeles	14	153	10.93	86	6.14
12	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	26	453	17.42	85	3.27
13	University of Pennsylvania	30	258	8.60	84	2.80
14	University of Texas at Austin	39	319	8.18	83	2.13
15	University of Florida	19	145	7.63	82	4.32
16	University of Washington Seattle	18	109	6.06	74	4.11
17	Columbia University	18	220	12.22	73	4.06
18	University of Arizona	13	227	17.46	71	5.46
19	Carnegie Mellon University	22	280	12.73	71	3.23
20	University of Chicago	14	146	10.43	71	5.07
21	Boston University	31	201	6.48	71	2.29
22	Texas A&M University College Station	23	145	6.30	71	3.09
23	University of Tennessee Knoxville	35	241	6.89	68	1.94
24	University of Michigan Ann Arbor	21	123	5.86	67	3.19
25	University of Iowa	18	254	14.11	66	3.67
26	Duke University	15	123	8.20	66	4.40
27	University of Connecticut	22	117	5.32	63	2.86
28	University of Miami	20	148	7.40	61	3.05
29	University of Colorado Boulder	24	267	11.13	60	2.50
30	University of Notre Dame	24	157	6.54	60	2.50
31	Rutgers State University at Newark & New Brunswick	33	329	9.97	58	1.76
32	Georgia Institute of Technology	29	117	4.03	57	1.97
33	University of Wisconsin Madison	14	79	5.64	55	3.93
34	Ohio State University	14	91	6.50	54	3.86
35	University of Buffalo	21	220	10.48	53	2.52
36	University of Illinois at Chicago	20	210	10.50	52	2.60
37	Stanford University	15	121	8.07	51	3.40
38	Georgia State University	16	246	15.38	49	3.06
39	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	18	351	19.50	48	2.67
40	University of Arkansas Fayetteville	26	334	12.85	48	1.85
41	University of South Florida	33	250	7.58	48	1.45
42	Cornell University	13	135	10.38	45	3.46
43	Virginia Tech University	28	242	8.64	45	1.61
44	Georgetown University	17	86	5.06	45	2.65
45	George Washington University	24	232	9.67	44	1.83
46	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	12	64	5.33	44	3.67
47	University of Georgia	18	144	8.00	42	2.33
48	Northwestern University	33	208	6.30	42	1.27
49	Harvard University	28	339	12.11	40	1.43
50	University of South Carolina Columbia	18	93	5.17	40	2.22
51	Johns Hopkins University	13	137	10.54	38	2.92
52	University of Houston	19	156	8.21	35	1.84
53	University of Pittsburgh	15	95	6.33	35	2.33
54	University of Cincinnati	22	145	6.59	34	1.55
55	Michigan State University	18	161	8.94	29	1.61
56	Dartmouth College	9	61	6.78	29	3.22
57	Iowa State University	26	183	7.04	28	1.08
58	University of California Irvine	11	50	4.55	28	2.55
59	University of Kansas	19	80	4.21	28	1.47
60	Santa Clara University	22	236	10.73	26	1.18
61	University of Oklahoma	27	177	6.56	26	0.96
62	Texas Christian University	11	64	5.82	26	2.36
63	George Mason University	30	85	2.83	25	0.83
64	Boston College	13	38	2.92	24	1.85
65	Oklahoma State University	14	234	16.71	23	1.64
66	University of Nebraska Lincoln	11	92	8.36	23	2.09
67	University of California Berkeley	8	40	5.00	23	2.88
68	University of Massachusetts Amherst	15	153	10.20	22	1.47
69	University of Delaware	14	81	5.79	21	1.50
70	North Carolina State University	9	99	11.00	20	2.22
71	University of Utah	11	42	3.82	20	1.82
72	University of Virginia	9	56	6.22	19	2.11
73	University of Rochester	6	34	5.67	19	3.17
74	Tulane University	11	48	4.36	19	1.73
75	Southern Methodist University	10	31	3.10	19	1.90
76	Yale University	9	55	6.11	18	2.00
77	University of California Riverside	6	21	3.50	18	3.00
78	Rice University	6	23	3.83	15	2.50
79	University of Oregon	9	27	3.00	15	1.67
80	Auburn University	26	190	7.31	14	0.54
81	University of Alabama Tuscaloosa	11	53	4.82	14	1.27
82	Northeastern University	9	58	6.44	13	1.44
83	Syracuse University	9	36	4.00	13	1.44
84	Stony Brook University	15	105	7.00	12	0.80
85	Lehigh University	9	39	4.33	12	1.33
86	William and Mary University	10	58	5.80	11	1.10
87	Drexel University	13	162	12.46	10	0.77
88	Brigham Young University	15	149	9.93	10	0.67
89	Baylor University	15	120	8.00	9	0.60
90	Fordham University	15	82	5.47	9	0.60
91	American University	13	69	5.31	9	0.69
92	University of California San Diego	8	38	4.75	9	1.13
93	University of California Davis	6	44	7.33	8	1.33
94	University of Denver	10	57	5.70	8	0.80
95	Emory University	19	103	5.42	8	0.42
96	Vanderbilt University	8	17	2.13	8	1.00
97	Case Western Reserve University	10	37	3.70	7	0.70
98	University of Kentucky	19	59	3.11	6	0.32
99	Louisiana State University	14	85	6.07	5	0.36
100	Babsen College	14	80	5.71	5	0.36
101	University of Hawaii	8	120	15.00	4	0.50
102	Saint Louis University	8	111	13.88	4	0.50
103	Howard University	14	52	3.71	4	0.29
104	Clemson University	20	111	5.55	2	0.10
105	Louisiana Tech University	5	69	13.80	1	0.20
106	University of San Diego	7	45	6.43	0	0.00
107	Pepperdine University	8	21	2.63	0	0.00

Current “A” List

Journals

Decision Support Systems
European Journal of Operational Research
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Information Systems Research
INFORMS J Computing
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
Management Science
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Mathematical Programming
MIS Quarterly
Operations Research
Production and Operations Management
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Transportation Science

Conferences

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Web Conference (WWW)

Methodology

We chose schools for this initial ranking based on a number of collegiate memberships (e.g., AAU) and business school research and education rankings (e.g., US News).
The departments in each business school that most closely matched our definition of "business analytics" were identified.
Tenured and tenure-track faculty in each of those departments were identified.
SciVal / Scopus queries were run to gather faculty productivity over the time window 2020 through 2024, based on the Tippie Business Analytics Journal List.

Contact information

If you have any feedback or would like to have your school added to the list, please contact us at Tippie-research@uiowa.edu.