U.S. News and World Report ranked Thunderbird the No. 1 program in international business for the fifth year in a row in the April 10, 2000 issue.
The Financial Times ranked Thunderbird as one of the top 50 MBA programs in the world in the January 24, 2000 article.
Business Week ranked Thunderbird's Executive programs as second in the world, behind INSEAD’s, in Global Business education in their October 18, 1999 issue.