Average Undergrad Business Rankings

Applying to College
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<p>OK, so here's what I did (This is what you do with crazy free time on your hands). These are the schools ranked by the averages of the BW and USNWR rankings. I don't know what this may or may not mean. I took the Top 50 from BW and the Top 25 from USNWR and averaged their ranks. I would have taken the Top 50 from USNWR, but their list is too long and I'm just too lazy. Some schools had the same average so they both got the same rank. All in all, there's 52 schools. USNWR had two schools (Washington, Arizona) in the Top 25, that BW did not have in their Top 50. So, I made the BW rank for these schools 51 and then took the average. I just did this, so check it out.</p>

<p>1 University of Pennsylvania
2 MIT
3 Michigan
4 UVA
5 NYU
6 Texas- Austin
7 UCB
8 UNC
9 Indiana
9 Carnegie Mellon
11 Emory
12 Notre Dame
13 Cornell
14 Washington University (Stl.)
15 USC
16 Illinois- Urbana-Champaign
17 Minnesota
18 Georgetown
18 Wisconsin
20 Brigham Young
21 Penn State
22 Michigan State
23 Boston College
24 Wake Forest
24 Babson
26 Southern Methodist
27 Purdue
28 Maryland
29 Ohio State University
30 Miami U- OH
30 TAMU (Texas A&M)
32 Arizona
33 Boston University
33 Georgia
35 Washington
35 Florida
37 Iowa
38 Bently
39 Syracuse
40 George Washington
41 Pittsburgh
42 Richmond
43 Northeastern
44 Baylor
45 Lehigh
46 Villanova
47 TCU (Texas Christian)
48 U of Miami- FL
49 Denver
50 Marquette
51 Fordham
52 James Madison</p>

2

<p>For a good number of B-Week schools, their statistics for student-faculty ratio was really off, which affected the rankings. For instance, USC's was listed as 1:62 (which is clearly not accurate) whereas many others were listed in the teens. This discrepancy arose because USC reported faculty actually teaching classes whereas other schools listed ALL profs.</p>

3

<p>I suppose that could be a fault in BW. These averages use both USNWR and BW, so any discrepancy is some what resolved.</p>

4

<p>The student-facult ratio is also way off for Northeastern. The numbers are skewed because up to half of the upper-class students would be off campus co-oping. The student- faculty ratio is probably more like 1:10.</p>

5

<p>The student-faculty ratio is only a small part of what BW was looking for. This factors in with the "Quality Measure" part. The "Ranking Measures" are completely different, and student-faculty ratio is not taken into account.</p>