Business school

College Search & Selection
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Which business schools are the best right now?

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This depends on what you are seeking. For example, Penn, Babson and the University of Richmond offer different environments from each other, and each could be a good choice for a particular student.

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This is a very popular ranking of b schools by poets and quants. Dec 2018 version. Top ten

Rounding out the top 10 undergraduate business school programs are:

  1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
  2. University of Virginia (McIntire)
  3. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
  4. University of Michigan (Ross)
  5. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
  6. New York University (Stern)
  7. Cornell University (Dyson)
  8. Villanova University
  9. Boston College (Carroll)
  10. University of California-Berkeley (Haas)
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@privatebanker Odd that MIT Sloan is not on that list.

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@TomSrOfBoston

Yes. Good point. I just looked it up and posted. I like the methodology but didn’t really look at it closely. Obviously the big guns are all great. They probably should be in their own list. Sure it’s microscopic differences in top 30.

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@TomSrOfBoston

“Developed in collaboration with business school deans and administrators, Poets&Quants for Undergrads’ ranking methodology is based equally on admissions standards, academic experience, and career outcomes. No other ranking or school survey asks for the same amount of concrete data, ranging from the percent of National Merit Scholars at each business school, to the percentage of students with global experience while at the school, to average debt upon graduation.

Visit https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/2018/12/12/wharton-repeats-as-top-pq-undergraduate-business-school/ to learn more about the 2018 Rankings, the methodology and to locate a specific school. Follow us on social #PQURankings and @PoetsAndQuants.

Poets&Quants for Undergrads “The Best Undergraduate Business Schools” 2018 Edition, featuring detailed profiles of the Top 88 programs, will be published in January.”

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Undergraduate Business Schools as ranked by surveys of business school deans & senior faculty as reported by US News:

  1. Penn-Wharton

  2. MIT-Sloan

  3. UCal-Berkeley–Haas

  4. Univ. of Michigan–Ross

  5. NYU-Stern

  6. Univ. of Texas–Austin

  7. Carnegie Mellon University–Tepper

  8. Cornell–Dyson

  9. UNC–Keenan-Flagler

  10. Virginia–Darden

  11. Indiana–Kelley

  12. Notre Dame–Mendoza

  13. USC–Marshall

  14. WashUStL–Olin

  15. Emory University

  16. Georgetown

  17. Ohio State

  18. Illinois

  19. Minnesota

  20. Wisconsin

The US News report ranks about 115 different undergraduate business programs.

But, for those with specific goals such as Management Consulting, then the top schools may not even have an undergraduate business programs. MBB buy brain power, not skills of the trade.

For example, McKinsey& Company–the most elite & prestigious MC firm in the world–has a core target list of twelve (12) undergraduate schools eight (8) of which have no undergraduate business schools. Those eight schools are:

Northwestern University, Brown University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton University, Stanford, & Yale University.

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Always interesting to compare different rankings, but it is difficult to understand P&Q’s omission of MIT, Texas & CMU.

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“For example, McKinsey& Company–the most elite & prestigious MC firm in the world–has a core target list of twelve (12) undergraduate schools eight (8) of which have no undergraduate business schools. Those eight schools are:

Northwestern University, Brown University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton University, Stanford, & Yale University.”

No Duke?

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Sorry, Duke is among the 12 core target schools.

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Duke does not have an undergraduate business school.

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@TomSrOfBoston : That is the point.

To be clear, for one seeking employment with the top management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, 9 out of 12 of their core undergraduate target schools does not even have an undergraduate business school.

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Publisher, McKensey, Bain and BCG, have more than 12 core campuses (those with asterisks next to them have undergraduate business programs and/or minors/certificates):

  1. Brown University
  2. Columbia University
  3. Cornell University *
  4. Dartmouth College
  5. Georgetown University *
  6. Harvard University
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
  8. Northwestern University *
  9. Princeton University
  10. Stanford University
  11. University of California-Berkeley *
  12. University of Chicago
  13. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor *
  14. University of Notre Dame *
  15. University of Pennsylvania *
  16. University of Virginia *
  17. Vanderbilt University
  18. Washington University-St Louis *
  19. Yale University

I think that Texas-Austin and Rice are also targets, but I am not entirely certain. I am sure I left out other targets.

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@Alexandre: Thank you for posting. Of course, when MBB are combined the list expands.

Is there a difference between “core target group of schools” & “target schools” ?

P.S. Your list contains some schools that I have not seen on McKinsey’s list. One of the most interesting aspects about McKinsey’s recruiting is regarding the University of Chicago. (And I do know the history of the firm & its founders’ educational background.) I am aware that McKinsey recruits at Chicago–Booth (MBA Program), but am uncertain about the undergraduate school.

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Makes sense Publisher, but does McKinsey articulate which are its core target group of schools vs merely target schools?