FT Global MBA Ranking 2008

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>01) Wharton
02) LBS
03) Columbia
04) Stanford
05) Harvard
06) INSEAD
07) IE Business School
08) MIT
09) Chicago
10) Cambridge </p>

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<p>Thanks for the posting. As for these rankings, they don't necessarily make a whole lot of sense.</p>

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<p>Rankings are quirky things. IMO, WSJ and the Economist are the worst since they omit a lot of schools that don't respond and some of the methodology is dodgy (e.g. the Economist ranks a school called Henley Mangement College -- a school no one has ever heard of -- ahead of Harvard Business School).... (also, the WSJ ranked Carnegie Mellon no. 2 and no. 3 in consecutive years ahead of schools like HBS, Stanford, Wharton, etc. -- i.e. a complete joke).</p>

<p>The best MBA rankings tend to be USNWR (though they don't rank international programs), B-week (they separate US and Int'l progs) and FT (which is the best combined ranking).</p>

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<p>As much as I'd like to believe that U-Florida (my shool) has the 64th best MBA program in the world, i just don't see the value of a ranking that weights percentage of female students and faculty. From a politically correct standpoint, sure-but what is the REAL value of having a higher percentage of women? Great students and teachers are great students and teachers, regardless of gender. Oddly, if they were to remove the sex factor, these are the most fair rankings I've seen.</p>