Ohio State Fisher College of Business

Fisher pairs one of the smallest public-school MBA classes in the country with one of its busiest corporate metros: Nationwide, Cardinal Health, L Brands’ successors, Honda’s North American operations, and an Intel fab under construction up the road. The operations and logistics program has fed that base for decades.

U.S. News cut Fisher eight places to No. 32 in the 2026 cycle — the kind of mid-table swing Poets&Quants flags as methodology noise — while in-state students kept paying about $62,000 for a placement rate in the mid-80s. The program’s honest ceiling is its size: 100 students get personal treatment and a short recruiting menu.