2008 Businessweek Rankings

College Majors Business Major
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<p>It was a “countdown” chat businessweek online was having which explains why the order is backwards.</p>

<li>Rutgers University</li>
<li>University of Miami</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>University of San Diego</li>
<li>University of Florida
45 Loyola College Maryland
44 University of Georgia
43 University of Maryland
42 Boston University
41 Case Western</li>
<li>Suny Binghamton-the biggest jump this year</li>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Penn State</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Baylor
35 Santa Clara
34 Northeastern
33 University of Washington
32 Texas Christian
31 Texas A&M</li>
<li>Bentley</li>
<li>William & Mary</li>
<li>Babson</li>
<li>Fordham</li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>Miami University</li>
<li>Southern Methodist</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Richmond</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>Washington University</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Villanova</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Texas-Austin</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>Brigham Young</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
</ol>

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<p>Big differences in the top 15:</p>

<p>UC Berkeley dropped from #3 to #11
Cornell jumped from #10 to #4
Georgetown dropped from #11 to #18
Notre Dame went from #7 to #3</p>

<p>According to the BW chat admins, University of Virginia was VERY VERY close to Upenn this year, where last year there was a significant difference between those top 2 schools.</p>

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<p>Such huge jumps/drops don't make sense. Either they were wrong last year, wrong this year, or wrong both years.</p>

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<p>noooo emory dropped one! Not that it really matters much, but I'm just saying.</p>

<p>Thanks for the update/list.</p>

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<p>Oh No!!!!!</p>

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<p>are these undergrad rankings or graduate programs? I am assuming undergraduate because I don't see Columbia (which doesn't have a undergraduate business program.)</p>

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<p>These are the undergraduate rankings.
Refer to this:
Business</a> School Rankings and Profiles: EMBA, Executive Education, MBA, Part-time MBA, Distance MBA</p>

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<p>Whatever happened to CUNY Baruch, last year #41, this year not on the list? lol</p>

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<p>Has the world gone MAD!?!?</p>

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<p>This shows what they are looking at when ranking:
Undergrad</a> - BSchools</p>

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<p>BusinessWeek has the worst Rankings. USNWR is better, but I wouldn't worry TOO much about rankings anyways.</p>

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<p>would u guys choose Santa Clara or UCLA for getting finance jobs (corporate, asset, equity, banking, etc) (obviously you'd do biz-econ at UCLA)</p>

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<p>I would definitely choose UCLA. If you can go to UCLA, Stanford, or Berkeley, I would go there. Santa Clara and USD are other good options for Finance though.</p>

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<p>"If u can go to UCLA, Stanford, or Berkeley"
easier said than done :P
but thanks for input !</p>

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<p>Well, you asked what you would choose, so you made it seem like you could get in to UCLA.</p>

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<p>I always discount these rankings because (a) this isn't something BusinessWeek has been doing for a long time (as opposed to the USNews), and (b) because BusinessWeek isn't really a good magazine. Forbes is much, much more legitimate than BusinessWeek is in my mind--and I essentially consider Forbes to be the People magazine of the business world. I guess that would make BusinessWeek Tiger Beat.</p>

<p>Then again, the WSJ and Economist b-school rankings aren't particularly good either, while the FT rankings are alright, so I'm not sure if the legitimacy of the institution behind the ranking matters all that much.</p>

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<p>USNews is a far less credible publication than BusinessWeek. USNews started to release rankings to make $$$.</p>

<p>"Forbes is much, much more legitimate than BusinessWeek"</p>

<p>LOL.</p>

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<p>
[quote]
USNews is a far less credible publication than BusinessWeek. USNews started to release rankings to make $$$.

[/quote]

I never said they were more credible than anything. But they've been doing this for a while, and in general their rankings are considered to be the standard.

[quote]
"Forbes is much, much more legitimate than BusinessWeek"</p>

<p>LOL.

[/quote]

Okay, well, maybe not anymore. Forbes has only been getting worse and worse. Neither of them are particularly fantastic, though.</p>

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<p>In general, I wouldn't pay too much attention to rankings. I know which b-schools are good and which are not. Between the different publications, there are differences in the rankings, but I would never take the rankings to say that this #2 schools is better than the #3 school. They fluctuate too often. Forbes does a fairly good job with making their rankings (although they did recently rank Tuck as number 1, not that Tuck is bad I actually have somewhat of a biased towards Tuck and Dartmouth but it is just something I never see in rankings. they are generally around 7 or 8) and giving the data which they used to make the rankings. I almost feel like someone just picked which b-schools were there favorites and wrote Businessweek Rankings at the top.</p>

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<p>fyi the usnews rankings dont weigh in many factors...they just consider what other people who have heard of it rank it. businessweek considers many factors so i would say theyre more credible</p>