Rankings & Recognition

Pride Points

• MBA Accolades
  • The 40 Best One-Year MBA Programs — College Consensus (2024, #17)
  • The 50 Best No-GMAT MBA Programs — College Consensus (2024, #42)
  • Top 100 best full-time MBA programs in the nation — U.S. News & World Report (2023) (2022, #81) (2021, #95) (2018)
  • Best MBA Programs — Fortune (2023, #71) (2022)
  • Best Business Schools — Bloomberg Businessweek (2023–24, #67) (2022–23, #80) (2021–22, #84) (2019–20, #91)
  • Top 25 Best MBA Programs in the South — College Consensus (2021)
  • USA's Leading Tourism and Hospitality Management Programs — Newsweek (2021)
  • No. 1 in the nation for job placement three months after graduation — U.S. News & World Report (2021)
  • Most affordable full-time MBA program in the nation — U.S. News & World Report (2021)
  • Highest percentage of female students in a full-time MBA program — U.S. News & World Report (2021)
  • Top 10 public, one-year MBA program in the nation — U.S. News & World Report (2021)
  • Top 100 Best MBA Program — WalletHub (2019)
  • No. 7 Accelerated MBA in the Country — MBA Central (2019)
  • No. 1 in the Nation for Job Placement three months after graduation — U.S. News & World Report* (2018)
  • No. 8 MBA with Most Women — U.S. News & World Report (2017)

  *Data based on information provided by job-seeking members of the 2017 MBA cohort.

• MBA in the News

  • CofC MBA program nationally recognized for success in recruiting women — Bloomberg (2021)
  • CofC MBA program ranked best in the country for job placement — ABC News 4 (2020)
  • CofC MBA program ranked among the best for job placement — Charleston Regional Business Journal (2018)
  • GOOD NEWS: CofC program ranks first in the nation — Charleston Currents (2018)
  • Q&A with Former MBA director, Mark Witte — The Post & Courier (2017)

• City Rankings and Recognition

  • No. 1 Best City in the U.S. — Travel + Leisure (2021) (2020) (2019) (2018)
  • No. 10 Best City in the World — Travel + Leisure (2018)
  • No. 4 Best Place to Start a Career — WalletHub (2018)
  • Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Wins Chamber of the Year Award — Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (2018)
  • Best Small Cities of the U.S. — National Geographic (2018)
  • No. 1 City in America for Economic Opportunity — Yelp (2018)
  • No. 4 Best Mid-Size Cities for Jobs — Forbes (2017)
  • Top City Attracting Millennials — Inc. (2017)
  • Top City to Work in Manufacturing — Smart Asset (2016)
  • No. 7 Fastest Growing Mid-Size Economies — Headlight Data (2016)