below all schools that ranked on any of the lists below are ordered alphabetically and presented with their numerical rankings in the respective lists. the following abbreviations are used in the column headings: usn - "u.s. news & world report", bw - "bloomberg businessweek", ec - "the economist", ft - "financial times", bi - "business insider", qs - "quacquarelli symonds" and arwu - "academic ranking of world universities".