Top Executive MBA Programs

Which list do you think of when you hear someone say "Top Executive MBA Programs"? Do you think about BusinessWeek? U.S. News & World Report? The Wall Street Journal? Financial Times? Forbes? The Princeton Review? The Economist? What's interesting is that some schools appear on almost every list of "top executive MBA programs." Do you know which schools I'm referring to?

Here are the top 5 according to BusinessWeek:

1. Northwestern (Kellogg)
2. Chicago (Booth)
3. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4. Columbia
5. USC (Marshall)

Here are the top 5 according to U.S. News & World Report:

1 Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
3 University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL
4 Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC
5 Columbia University New York, NY

Notice that Kellogg, Wharton, Booth, and Columbia are on both lists when you look at the top 5 programs?