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Are you serious Alexandre? You can’t just “adjust for size” and claim Ross to be equal to Wharton by doubling Ross’s placement numbers for jobs/internships. If you know statistics well, you would know that it’s far, far more impressive for a business school to be twice as big and still place a little more than twice as many people into the top banks/consulting firms. If Ross’s size doubled, its placement numbers would be incredibly diluted and I doubt it would increase them just because they have more students, LET ALONE TWICE AS MANY AS PEOPLE. This is just a ridiculous proposition. Ross is effective as a b-school primarily due its small size because it essentially selects the 300 smartest/business-oriented students at Michigan. If it were to expand its size, then it would still place the same amount of students in the top firms and its placement figures would just plummet across the board.</p>
<p>Do you honestly think that if Ross doubled its size, companies would double their recruitment of Ross students? THAT’S JUST RIDICULOUS!!! If they were that interested in Michigan, these firms would just recruit a lot more of the really smart LSA/Econ and Engineering majors for their internships/jobs but they clearly aren’t doing that. These companies do most of their recruiting at Ross and even if they only pick up a few people, it makes Ross look good since that number is still good by virtue of Ross’s small enrollment size.</p>
<p>What I’m trying to say is that if Dartmouth and Duke created a “business program” for the 300 smartest kids in their school, their placement figures per capita into the top IB/Consulting firms would be much stronger than Wharton’s. The fact that Ross’s numbers per capita only show up as being equivalent to Wharton is nothing to brag about.</p>
<p>Wharton is so absolutely dominant because it is such a large business school and it is still able to comparatively place more students into the top firms than Ross, which is half the size.</p>
<p>By the way, besides JPMorgan, none of Ross’s placement figures are particularly impressive. I know at least 5 kids at Duke who secured IBD internships with Deutsche and that’s not even including all the S&T kids. Duke’s placement into Merrill and MS blows Ross out of the water. They both take like 5-10 interns for IBD ALONE each year and come back on campus and pick up 5-10 for full-time positions in IBD. Again, this is not even including the placement into other divisions in these companies like S&T, Asset Management, Research, WM, etc.</p>
<p>Although Wharton is definitely better overall and appeals to a more wide range of industry players like small boutiques and PE firms that Dartmouth/Duke students don’t have access to, I think the hiring for the bulge bracket firms is similar. In fact, I think Merill recruits more at Duke than any other school in the country including Harvard, Princeton and Wharton. This is what a Harvard grad who works in banking at Merill personally told me. The same might be true at Morgan Stanley since John Mack is a Duke grad and the CEO there. Dartmouth’s dominance at GS is well-known as the past CEO was a Dartmouth alum I believe. I believe Dartmouth places as well into Goldman as Harvard, Princeton and Wharton.</p>
<p>In summary, Wharton is twice as good as Ross. Dartmouth/Duke are slightly worse than Wharton but still a great deal better than Ross.</p>
<p>TOP 5 BANKING SCHOOLS
- Harvard
- Wharton
- Princeton
- Dartmouth
- Duke</p>
<p>Ross belongs in the next group of recruited schools however and is extremely well-respected, albeit not to the same degree as the aforementioned 5 titans of finance.</p>