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.

institution
▲ ▼

Number of Faculty 2024
▲ ▼

Scholarly Output 2020-2024
▲ ▼

Papers per faculty 
▲ ▼

Papers on A-List 
▲ ▼

A-List Per faculty
▲ ▼

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

24

495

20.63

164

6.83

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

18

351

19.50

48

2.67

University of Arizona

13

227

17.46

71

5.46

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

26

453

17.42

85

3.27

Oklahoma State University

14

234

16.71

23

1.64

Georgia State University

16

246

15.38

49

3.06

University of Hawaii

8

120

15.00

4

0.50

University of Iowa

18

254

14.11

66

3.67

Saint Louis University

8

111

13.88

4

0.50

Louisiana Tech University

5

69

13.80

1

0.20

University of Arkansas Fayetteville

26

334

12.85

48

1.85

Carnegie Mellon University

22

280

12.73

71

3.23

Drexel University

13

162

12.46

10

0.77

Columbia University

18

220

12.22

73

4.06

Harvard University

28

339

12.11

40

1.43

New York University

33

385

11.67

124

3.76

University of Maryland at College Park

28

324

11.57

98

3.50

University of Colorado Boulder

24

267

11.13

60

2.50

North Carolina State University

9

99

11.00

20

2.22

University of California Los Angeles

14

153

10.93

86

6.14

Santa Clara University

22

236

10.73

26

1.18

Johns Hopkins University

13

137

10.54

38

2.92

University of Illinois at Chicago

20

210

10.50

52

2.60

University of Buffalo

21

220

10.48

53

2.52

University of Chicago

14

146

10.43

71

5.07

Cornell University

13

135

10.38

45

3.46

University of Massachusetts Amherst

15

153

10.20

22

1.47

Rutgers State University at Newark & New Brunswick

33

329

9.97

58

1.76

Brigham Young University

15

149

9.93

10

0.67

George Washington University

24

232

9.67

44

1.83

Temple University

20

185

9.25

88

4.40

University of Southern California

32

287

8.97

91

2.84

Michigan State University

18

161

8.94

29

1.61

Virginia Tech University

28

242

8.64

45

1.61

University of Pennsylvania

30

258

8.60

84

2.80

University of Nebraska Lincoln

11

92

8.36

23

2.09

University of Houston

19

156

8.21

35

1.84

Duke University

15

123

8.20

66

4.40

University of Texas at Austin

39

319

8.18

83

2.13

Arizona State University

50

408

8.16

128

2.56

Purdue University

25

203

8.12

97

3.88

Stanford University

15

121

8.07

51

3.40

Baylor University

15

120

8.00

9

0.60

University of Georgia

18

144

8.00

42

2.33

Indiana University Bloomington

36

279

7.75

99

2.75

University of Florida

19

145

7.63

82

4.32

University of South Florida

33

250

7.58

48

1.45

University of Miami

20

148

7.40

61

3.05

University of California Davis

6

44

7.33

8

1.33

Auburn University

26

190

7.31

14

0.54

Iowa State University

26

183

7.04

28

1.08

Stony Brook University

15

105

7.00

12

0.80

University of Tennessee Knoxville

35

241

6.89

68

1.94

University of Texas at Dallas

49

337

6.88

198

4.04

Dartmouth College

9

61

6.78

29

3.22

Pennsylvania State University

26

175

6.73

87

3.35

University of Cincinnati

22

145

6.59

34

1.55

University of Oklahoma

27

177

6.56

26

0.96

University of Notre Dame

24

157

6.54

60

2.50

Ohio State University

14

91

6.50

54

3.86

Boston University

31

201

6.48

71

2.29

Northeastern University

9

58

6.44

13

1.44

University of San Diego

7

45

6.43

0

0.00

University of Pittsburgh

15

95

6.33

35

2.33

Northwestern University

33

208

6.30

42

1.27

Texas A&M University College Station

23

145

6.30

71

3.09

University of Virginia

9

56

6.22

19

2.11

Yale University

9

55

6.11

18

2.00

Louisiana State University

14

85

6.07

5

0.36

University of Washington Seattle

18

109

6.06

74

4.11

University of Michigan Ann Arbor

21

123

5.86

67

3.19

Texas Christian University

11

64

5.82

26

2.36

William and Mary University

10

58

5.80

11

1.10

University of Delaware

14

81

5.79

21

1.50

Babsen College

14

80

5.71

5

0.36

University of Denver

10

57

5.70

8

0.80

University of Rochester

6

34

5.67

19

3.17

University of Wisconsin Madison

14

79

5.64

55

3.93

Clemson University

20

111

5.55

2

0.10

Fordham University

15

82

5.47

9

0.60

Emory University

19

103

5.42

8

0.42

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12

64

5.33

44

3.67

University of Connecticut

22

117

5.32

63

2.86

American University

13

69

5.31

9

0.69

University of South Carolina Columbia

18

93

5.17

40

2.22

Georgetown University

17

86

5.06

45

2.65

University of California Berkeley

8

40

5.00

23

2.88

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa

11

53

4.82

14

1.27

University of California San Diego

8

38

4.75

9

1.13

University of California Irvine

11

50

4.55

28

2.55

Tulane University

11

48

4.36

19

1.73

Lehigh University

9

39

4.33

12

1.33

University of Kansas

19

80

4.21

28

1.47

Georgia Institute of Technology

29

117

4.03

57

1.97

Syracuse University

9

36

4.00

13

1.44

Rice University

6

23

3.83

15

2.50

University of Utah

11

42

3.82

20

1.82

Howard University

14

52

3.71

4

0.29

Case Western Reserve University

10

37

3.70

7

0.70

University of California Riverside

6

21

3.50

18

3.00

University of Kentucky

19

59

3.11

6

0.32

Southern Methodist University

10

31

3.10

19

1.90

University of Oregon

9

27

3.00

15

1.67

Boston College

13

38

2.92

24

1.85

George Mason University

30

85

2.83

25

0.83

Pepperdine University

8

21

2.63

0

0.00

Vanderbilt University

8

17

2.13

8

1.00

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

  1. 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).
  2. The departments in each business school that most closely matched our definition of "business analytics" were identified.
  3. Tenured and tenure-track faculty in each of those departments were identified.
  4. 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.