2008 Undergrad Businessweek rankings

College Search & Selection
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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>

<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>These rankings are BS. Emory and Notre Dame don't deserve to be in the top 10, let alone top 5.</p>

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<p>This list is highly suspect...Emory, BYU and Notre Dame above Ross, Stern and Haas? I find that highly implausible</p>

<p>Eh...what metrics did they use?</p>

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<p>
[quote]
According to the BW chat admins, University of Virginia was VERY VERY close to Upenn this year

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In terms of what? Geographically? Recruiter perception? Job offers?</p>

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<p>ah...BW makes USN look boring. :D</p>

6

<p>I don't think Cornell's business program (which is what, like 3 or 4 yrs old) is regarded as highly as some of the others on that list, such as Stern, Wharton, MIT, Ross, etc.</p>

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<p>For metrics:
Undergrad</a> - BSchools</p>

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<p>Wow, MIT (Sloan) and Berkeley (Haas) that low? Interesting...</p>

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<p>For Berkeley:

[quote]
High-quality faculty, students, and recruiting give Haas the edge, but rugged grading curve irks some.

[/quote]

Awwwww, it's too hard? :confused:
The amount of pampering kids need these days is incredible.</p>

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<p>UCBChemEGrad- They have an "overall index rating #" that they measure by. Last year, University of Virginia was 92.6 or some thing and Wharton was 100. This year, University of Virginia's overall index rating is 99 and Wharton's is 100.</p>

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<p>Rochester institute of Technology is better than Purdue and Ohio State?</p>

12

<p>Does this link in the top right work for anyone else? I can't seem to find their detailed methodology.</p>

<p>Methodology: How We Make the Rankings</p>

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<p>It's Businessweek people...these rankings change weekly. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Interesting list, although I still think the California schools (Berkeley, USD, Santa Clara, and USC) are all a bit underrated.</p>

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<p>Come on....even a Michigan grad MUST take umbrage with RIT (note, NOT U. of Rochester) being ranked above Ohio State. Um....</p>

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<p>NYU Stern should not be behind ANY of those schools except for Penn Wharton. This ranking gets a roundhouse kick to the head.</p>

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<p>What a joke. Makes US News look like the Bible.</p>

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<p>ilovebagles, Stern should be ranked among the top 6 or 7, but not necessarily #2. Haas, McIntire, Ross and Sloan are all at least as good as Stern.</p>

<p>Barrons, I must agree, this ranking is not very appealing. It relies way too much on fluffy variables. They should model their undergraduate rankings after their MBA rankings.</p>

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<p>Here on CC, there is an extreme preoccupation with how undergraduate business schools position one for Wall Street. The world of business is a lot bigger than Wall Street and any ranking that reflects this is doing a public service. </p>

<p>I would like to see the methodology, but I am pleased to see that these results seem to reflect undergraduate schools that teach "business" and not "financial institutions." I am not at all surprised that some relatively unheralded schools rank highly, eg, Notre Dame, Emory, BYU, U Texas, Villanova, Boston College, Indiana U, and Richmond. Graduates of these schools are very well prepared and generally perform as well in the real world as their more ballyhooed peers and they typically do it with a lot less attitude.</p>

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<p>As someone who went through the interview process for finance/consulting and had interviews at a number of the top firms, I can say that at every firm, I saw the same schools being represented. All of the ivies, plus Duke, Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Chicago, Gtown, UVA, Michigan, CAL Berk; and that was about it.</p>

<p>Did not see a student from Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wash U</p>