2009 Ranking of US Business Schools by QuantNetwork

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>I would like to bring to your attention the recently published Ranking of US Business Schools done by QuantNetwork.</p>

<p>The ranking is based on unbiased, publicly available data from Xmarks and uses a patent pending proprietary analysis algorithm.</p>

<p>The ranking can be found at QuantNetwork</a> - Financial Engineering Forum - 2009 QuantNetwork Ranking of US Business Schools</p>

<p>Detailed methodology is published at QuantNetwork</a> - Financial Engineering Forum - QuantNetwork Ranking - Methodology</p>

<p>When compared to other rankings, the 2009 US Business Schools Ranking by QuantNetwork is significantly closer to the 2009 US News and World Report Ranking of US Business Schools than the 2008 Business Week Ranking, and the 2009 Forbes Ranking of Business Schools, and has the lowest rank differential of all the rankings.</p>

<p>The ability to use public unbiased data to generate a ranking that is consistent with rankings of long standing tradition based on proprietary information reported by the schools in an elaborate process is rather remarkable.</p>

<p>The 2009 QuantNetwork Ranking of US Business Schools</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard Business School</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)</li>
<li>New York University (Stern)</li>
<li>University of California, Berkeley (Haas)</li>
<li>Northwestern University (Kellogg)</li>
<li>University of Chicago (Booth)</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>Dartmouth College (Tuck)

<ol>
<li>Duke University (Fuqua)</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) </li>
<li>University of Michigan (Ross) </li>
<li>Yale University </li>
<li>University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson) </li>
<li>Cornell University (Johnson) </li>
<li>University of Virginia (Darden) </li>
<li>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) </li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) </li>
<li>University of Southern California (Marshall) </li>
<li>Emory University (Goizueta) </li>
<li>University of Texas, Austin (McCombs) </li>
<li>Georgetown University (McDonough)</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<p>The same algorithm was used by QuantNetwork to rank Financial Engineering MS Programs from US and Canada. The resulting ranking can be found at QuantNetwork</a> - Financial Engineering Forum - QuantNetwork Ranking of Financial Engineering/Mathematical Finance MS Programs</p>

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<p>Looks good to me but I would replace NYU-Stern with NU-Kellogg and move Haas down to number 5. I think everyone would agree that Kellogg is one of the very best business schools out there, more so than Stern is. Berkeley-Haas is deserving in the top 8, now, as the business has progressed in quantum leap since Rich Lyons took over as the school dean. Overall, It doesn’t matter whether the school is ranked number 4 or number 10. The 4th best and the 10th best aren’t that significantly different.</p>

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<p>The ranking for FE looks odd, however. lol </p>

<p>I think everyone would agree that the Haas’ program is a much better program than the Stanford program. NYU’s program must also be quite good. Both programs should have been in Group 1. Stanford’s and Chicago’s are the ones that should have been in group 2.</p>

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<p>MIT underranked
Haas overranked
Stern WAYYYYY overranked (should be 10-15)</p>

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<p>Looking on the face value of these top business schools, I don’t think that Sloan is now superior to Haas. They are almost similar now a days. But then again, all those that made it in the top 10 or 12 are fantastic business schools.</p>