In college you had to pick a major, which may or may not have had an impact on what you actually did after graduating. In business school, it’s a different story. The concentration or track you choose in business school largely determines the kind of job you’ll get after you obtain your MBA. This makes sense as business school, like most graduate programs, is about obtaining specialized knowledge and skills and making connections that will help you pursue a particular career path.

Business school should be approached as a necessary step on a journey towards a specific destination — perhaps to direct marketing for a fortune 500 company or follow your passion to become a serial entrepreneur or change industries to go into supply chain and logistics. Your choice in where to attend should correspond to what you want to go on to accomplish after business school.  There’s more schools with stellar programs than just the well-known institutions, especially when you sort by specialities. Who would have thought to see Georgia State sandwiched between Wharton and Stanford in a top-10 listing?

We’ve reproduced U.S. News’ business school rankings for speciality programs along with GMAT data to show the current best schools in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, management, accounting, information systems, nonprofit, supply chain and logistics, and product and operations in the U.S.

Finance

Entrepreneurship

Marketing

Management

Accounting

Information Systems

Non-Profit

Supply Chain/Logistics

Production/Operations