<p>Harvard, Wharton, Northwestern, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, MIT, Duke, Michigan and UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>Yale - #14
Tuck - #15</p>
<p>both are outside of the top 10. </p>
<p>2009</a> MBA Rankings: Top Business Schools in USA, Canada</p>
<p>This is a ranking that has UNC ranked ahead of Stanford / MIT Sloan and Thunderbird ranked ahead of Wharton, Chicago and Yale.</p>
<p>Very reliable.</p>
<p>the_prestige, I think you may be misreading the table. I don’t think that’s a ranking, per se, but rather just a list of schools, in somewhat alphabetical order.</p>
<p>well that link doesn’t seem to be working anymore, at least it isn’t for me.</p>
<p>[North</a> America | Top MBA](<a href=“http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/global-200-business-schools-report/top-business-schools-2009/north-america]North”>http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/global-200-business-schools-report/top-business-schools-2009/north-america)</p>
<p>I believe that is the link, here is the meat of it:</p>
<p>“Employers’ top 10 preferred schools in North America are: Harvard, Wharton, Northwestern, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, MIT, Duke, Michigan and UC Berkeley.”</p>
<p>This is an employer survey…</p>
<p>Employer surveys bring to mind the book “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense”, the recent book on the Lehman collapse. In it the author describes Michigan as a top 5 MBA and possibly the number 1 school (according to the WSJ, another recruiter survey). I stopped taking anything in the book seriously after that.</p>
<p>storch, of course, of course, you will say that. lol</p>
<p>For most top MBA aspirants and b-schools faculty, this survey result makes real sense.
personally, however, tuck should have been in the top 11, coz there’s really no big difference the separates the top 8 to 11.</p>
<p>Of course I would point out the well known truth that recruiter based surveys are often biased against schools where students have a wide range of options and do not fawn over every recruiter (like Stanford, which incidentally is ludicrously #5 in this ranking). As far as recruiter surveys go this one is okay, but the methodology is fundamentally flawed.</p>
<p>"This year Harvard has retained an edge over its Philadelphia-based rival in terms of its employer votes (number of prompted and unprompted votes received from distinct employers around the world). "</p>
<p>Unprompted? That one word invalidates this survey in my opinion. It is probably pretty close, but it sounds like they were allowing unsolicited votes, which are statistically invalid (self-selection in participation is a no-no).</p>