<ol>
<li>Chicago - Booth</li>
<li>Dartmouth - Tuck</li>
<li>Berkeley - Haas</li>
<li>Harvard Business School</li>
<li>IESE Business School - University of Navarra (Spain)</li>
<li>IMD - International Instiutite for Management Development (Switzerland)</li>
<li>Stanford Graduate School of Business</li>
<li>Penn - Wharton School</li>
<li>HEC School of Management, Paris </li>
<li>York University - Schulich School of Business (Canada)</li>
</ol>
<p>1 Chicago, University of - Booth School of Business
2 Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business<br>
3 California at Berkeley, University of - Haas School of Business
4 Harvard Business School<br>
5 Stanford Graduate School of Business<br>
6 Pennsylvania, University of - Wharton School
8 Virginia, University of - Darden Graduate School of Business
9 Columbia Business School
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Business
11 New York University - Leonard N Stern School of Business
12 Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
13 Southern California, University of - Marshall School of Business
14 Carnegie Mellon University - The Tepper School of Business
15 Yale School of Management<br>
16 Michigan, University of - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
17 Hult International Business School
18 Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
19 Washington, University of–Foster School of Business
20 Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management
21 Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
22 Emory University - Goizueta Business School
23 UCLA Anderson School of Management
24 Notre Dame, University of - Mendoza College of Business
25 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of - Kenan-Flagler
26 Rice University - Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Business
27 Boston University School of Management America
28 Texas at Austin, University of - McCombs School of Business
29 Washington University in St Louis - Olin Business School
30 Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management<br>
31 Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business
32 Wisconsin School of Business
33 Pennsylvania State University - Smeal College of Business
34 Wake Forest University Schools of Business
35 California at Davis, University of—Graduate School of Management
36 Minnesota, University of - Carlson School of Management
37 Iowa, University of - Henry B Tippie School of Management
38 George Washington University—School of Business
39 Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
41 Thunderbird School of Global Management
43 Georgia, University of - Terry College of Business
45 Purdue University - Krannert Graduate School of Management
46 Brandeis International Business School
47 South Carolina, University of - Moore School of Business
48 Rochester, University of - William E Simon Graduate School of Business
49 Pittsburgh, University of - Katz Graduate School of Business
51 Florida, University of - Hough Graduate School of Business
52 Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
53 American University - Kogod School of Business
54 Temple University–Fox School of Business
55 Miami, University of - School of Business Administration
57 Arizona, University of - Eller College of Management</p>
<p>I agree. I’m an avid Economist fan, but I’m not sure where they come up with these numbers. Harvard, Wharton, and Stanford will strike by far the most awe in people when you tell them you have an MBA from there, and their grads earn the most. So it seems unrealistic not to have them at the top of the list.</p>
<p>Booth always comes out high on every list. But its grads earn significantly less than Harvard, Wharton, and Stanford grads. Why does it always rank so high? I always supposed it was because of the enormous influence Friedman and the “Chicago School” have had on the course of modern world policy. Is that true?</p>
<p>Not true. According to this ([Business</a> school rankings from the Financial Times](<a href=“http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings]Business”>http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings)), Chicago grads make an average of $151.7k compared to Harvard’s $161.9k and Stanford’s $164.9k. First of all, the difference isn’t that significant. But when you realize the fact that more Chicago grads are going to be working in Chicago where the cost of living is much much lower than those of the East and West Coasts, Chicago grads are probably making a better living than those of Harvard/Stanford grads.</p>
<p>It’s like professor salary. Does Harvard’s average prof. salary of $190k/year really beat Chicago’s $180k/year? In objective numbers, yes. But when you compare Chicago and Boston’s cost of living… well, quite clearly, Chicago’s $180k/year wins.</p>
<p>Not sure about that phuri. Cost of living is higher in new york because everyone wants to be in ny and no one wants to be in chicago. Yes, you spend more on rent and basic foods, but you have central park, broadway, dozens of free museums, sundays at mets stadium, and free movies under the rooklyn bridge. All without having to own a car.</p>
<p>Anyway, the point is that absolute is absolute. If chicago was worth it, the std of living would rise. Just as if india were worth it, their currency and economy would rise. But as it is now, a frenchman is still richer making 500000 dollars in euros than an indian making 400000 dollars in rupees.</p>
<p>Long story short, east coast schools still better, regardless of cost of living</p>
<p>That’s some really convoluted logic, croato87, and basically implies that any area of the Upper East Coast or any place on California’s West Coast is objectively a better place to live than Chicago, including places far from the city. This is what people call East Coast elitism, and a severe case thereof.</p>
<p>NYC is worse than Chicago in many ways. NY is filfhy and over-crowded to many people and many apartments are tiny like closets. Oh, they have the worst bed bug infestation in the country! Many people go to NYC not because it’s a nicer place; they go there for jobs. There’s only one Wall Street after all.</p>
<p>You can do lots of things at Chicago without having to own a car either. You seem to place a huge premium on Central Park; to me, it’s nice only because the city is so conjested with crowds and rusty old tall buildings; it therefore provides the escape people <em>need</em>. Otherwise, it feels artificial and not particular pretty; I hope you don’t think it’s some natural wonder. :rolleyes: The Golden Gate Park is very similar to Central Park but no one in SF makes a big deal about it because the city has beautiful surroundings.</p>
<p>Where does the underlying data from your cross admit list come from? Can you share it?</p>
<p>That Haas and Chicago outrank Kellogg and Sloan seems outlandish given my experience - which include working with people from most of these schools and recently graduating from one of them. </p>
<p>BedHead my experience tells me this as well. I interview for my b-school often and attend alumni events during admissions season - these are the choices I see most often. Maybe its an east coast/ west coast thing.</p>
<p>Data: No I can’t share it. And feel free to call ******** on me. I’ve worked, very recently, for two of the schools mentioned in these posts, and I have a very clear notion of what the cross-admit choice/selectivity is looking like and where they are trending. You can choose to ignore me, and again, call ********. I am not really going to argue. Finally, I come down where UCBChemE is anyway: does it really matter?</p>
<p>Chicago has come on really strong after the $300 million Booth gift. It is a force to be reckoned with, and people are voting more in that direction with their feet. </p>
<p>Haas/Berkeley has a really low percentage acceptance (behind only Harvard and Stanford, as I recall) and has come on really strong in recent years in cross-admit choices (where people are admitted to several top schools) and emphasis.</p>
<p>Harvard is fairly unassailable in its top position on this basis.</p>
<p>Indeed MIT and Kellogg are in a position that people might find surprising, but they aren’t at all far off.</p>
<p>Let the debate begin. I am not playing fair, and won’t. I am perfectly happy to have you call me names or dismiss what I say. I’m just giving you an up-to-date read.</p>
<p>One thing I would note is that 3 of the top 5 I’ve noted are huge schools. I think, at a certain level of perceived quality, people may want more scale and size. But people at Stanford, Haas/Berkeley, and Tuck/Dartmouth, judging by affinity rates, love their schools more.</p>
<p>That’s not exactly an apt metaphor for nobody (I hope) is entering academia strictly for the money, and those few who do are fools. If money, whether calculated by gross income or scaled by cost of living, is all you care about, there are far more lucrative career paths you should have taken. </p>
<p>People enter academia for the lifestyle, and in particular, for the enjoyment of living in a community where erudition and scholasticism are respected. Boston, with its proliferation of colleges, is denoted the ‘Athens of America’. Chicago obviously has some excellent universities, but they’re dwarfed by the sheer magnitude of other activities in the region.</p>