<p>I'm a freshman in college and I'm considering getting my MBA after college (or after a couple years work experience). But I'm pretty ignorant as to which colleges are the most well-known for their MBA program. So if anyone can just list some of the good one's that would be great. Thanks!</p>
<p>search for the thread.here is a lot of discussions about the best MBA schools.</p>
<p>Princeton.</p>
<p>MNKeeper,</p>
<p>First off, you probably want to get a few years of work experience first. Worry less about top MBA programs and more about getting good internships and work experience.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/95/lead-careers-cz_07mba_Best-Business-Schools_Rank.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/95/lead-careers-cz_07mba_Best-Business-Schools_Rank.html</a>
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/%5B/url%5D">http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/</a></p>
<p>Penn, Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, and Northwestern are generally considered the best five. Other schools like Dartmouth, NYU, Cornell, Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley have respectable programs, but those five are generally considered the best. I'm sure you'll figure out once you get into the job market, what your interests are, and from there you will decide where you want to go. They all have different specialties, and the MBA graduates all go into different fields.</p>
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Penn, Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, and Northwestern are generally considered the best five. Other schools like Dartmouth, NYU, Cornell, Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley have respectable programs, but those five are generally considered the best.
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<p>I'd argue that Sloan (MIT) and Columbia have a decent argument to place in front of Stern, Johnson, Ross, Haas, and Darden.</p>
<p>My bad, I don't know how I forgot those. MIT is awesome for Information Systems (The Best). I'd rather go to Columbia Business School than Stern for MBA.</p>
<p>Tier 1: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton
Tier 1.5: Columbia, Chicago, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, maybe Dartmouth Tuck</p>
<p>I would personally rank b-schools this way but this is just based on prestige/branding alone. And please take note that there's very little that separates between subsequent groups.</p>
<p>Group 1: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton
Group 2: Columbia, Chicago, Kellogg, Haas, Tuck, Sloan, Ross
Group 3: Yale, Duke-Fuqua, Cornell-Johnson, NYU-Stern, UVa-Darden, UCLA-Anderson</p>
<p>Group 4: Georgetown, CMU, IU, UT-Austin, USC, JHU, Tulane and the like</p>
<p>Amongs the very elite b-schools, both Haas and Tuck offer a very exclusive and close-knit kind of ambience. Both are quite well known internationally too.</p>
<p>Tulane? Johns Hopkins?</p>
<p>Not on the list...</p>
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<p>..but they are.</p>
<p>Where are you getting that? Tulane and JHU aren't even in the top 50 (Tulane might be a top 50), let alone competitive among the top 20.</p>
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<p>I am getting that from the 10th post in this thread.</p>
<p>It's interesting that people would group Penn, Harvard and Stanford together when Northwestern and Chicago both have been in the top three in the Business Week Rankings. I would agree though that Penn...sorry Wharton, Harvard, and Stanford would be the top tier, not only because of salary, but in terms of weight and prestige. Not to take anything away from Northwestern or Chicago (I would have them in tier 1.5, and then everyone else.</p>
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It's interesting that people would group Penn, Harvard and Stanford together when Northwestern and Chicago both have been in the top three in the Business Week Rankings
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<p>Yeah, but I think that just goes to demonstrate the weakness of the BW rankings. </p>
<p>Think of it this way. HBS has never been ranked #1 according to any of the BW rankings in any year, not even once. But come on. This is HBS we're talking about. Let's face it. It has the transcendent brand name. It consistently has the highest average starting salary. It has, by far, the highest yield (usually ~90%, which vastly exceeds that of any other school). It wins the majority of cross-admits with any other school. </p>
<p>The #1 school, according to BW, is Chicago. Chicago GSB is a great school, don't get me wrong. But come on, I think it's not a wild assertion that the majority (not all, but a majority) of Chicago GSB students would rather be going to HBS but didn't get in. Heck, several of my friends have Chicago MBA's, and they freely admit that if they had gotten into HBS, they would have gone there instead. On the other hand, I don't think there are many HBS students who would rather be going to Chicago, despite its #1 ranking.</p>
<p>TO the OP- this, for good or bad is what the public sees as the "gold standard" of MBA rankings. Mind you, I didn't say the quality was best, just the preception. Think of it like Budweiser Beeer, it has the brand equity, but may not be the highest quality. </p>
<p>USNews.com:</a> America's Best Graduate Schools 2008: Top Business Schools</p>
<p>I think Stanford, Wharton, and Harvard always have the highest salaries. It just shows rankings mean nothing when people in the top ranked grad school would rather be somewhere else. I certainly think there is a consensus that HBS is the best. Anyways, personally, I don't know if I'd go there if I got into other top business schools. I guess it would depend somewhat on where I go undergrad. It would also depend...I think I'd go to Wharton over Harvard just because...I don't know, because I love Boston so much, and my feeling toward Harvard have dramatically warmed, I'd have a hard time turning down HBS.</p>