<p>This is for you ranking nuts. I consolidated 6 major (or credible in my eyes) MBA rankings and took the average ranking to come up with this list. Not exactly sure if this has any merit, but some of you may find this interesting/useful.</p>
<p>The 6 rankings used are are:
The Economist Ranking 2007
Forbes Ranking 2007
Wall Street Journal Ranking 2007
BusinessWeek Ranking 2008
Financial Times Ranking 2008
US News & World Report Ranking 2009</p>
<p>Needless to say, some publications do not release their rankings every year.</p>
<p>Some of the rankings used were actually global MBA rankings, so in that case, I removed the non-US schools and renumbered them accordingly. There were some programs that were not listed in some publications due to some reasons, so my criteria for making into the final list was that they needed to be listed in at least 4 of the rankings used. The only problem I foresee with the current setting is the schools outside of Top 30 for BusinessWeek, as they were listed, but not numbered, so I used the same average value of 45 for 30 schools mentioned.</p>
<p>I probably need to tweak the ranking a little. Anyway, here’s what came up.</p>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>California - Berkeley</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>North Carolina - Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>Univ. of Southern California</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Texas - Austin</li>
<li>Maryland - College Park</li>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Rochester</li>
<li>Ohio State - Columbus</li>
<li>Texas A&M - College Station</li>
<li>Brigham Young</li>
<li>Purdue - West Lafayette</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Penn State - University Park</li>
<li>Univ. of Washington</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Thunderbird</li>
<li>Iowa</li>
<li>Washington Univ. in St. Louis</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Wisconsin - Madison</li>
<li>Florida - Gainesville</li>
<li>Minnesota - Twin Cities</li>
<li>Illinois - Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>Babson</li>
<li>Southern Methodist Univ.</li>
<li>UC - Davis</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Arizona State</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>William & Mary</li>
<li>Arizona</li>
<li>UC - Irvine</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>South Carolina</li>
<li>Pittsburgh</li>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
</ol>
<p>6 did not make the cut for missing out on 1 publication:
(43) SUNY - Buffalo
(56) Missouri
(56) Temple
(57) George Washington
(59) Rutgers
(60) Connecticut</p>