<p>Another victory for the blue devils:</p>
<p>Thank you @Jwest22 for posting this wonderful news. As a long term Fuqua alumni leader, this #1 Business Week ranking is something I thought we’d not attain in my lifetime, notwithstanding the decades of hard, focused, multi-faceted work that has been devoted to its achievement.</p>
<p>I always thought you were an alum of the undergrad program, @TopTier but it is nice to see the school leading the pack.</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ ^
Both.</p>
<p>Very positive news. Duke med now needs to step up its game. Harvard has been occupying that top spot for way too long! </p>
<p>Ha, I think the highest Duke med has ever been ranked was 3rd (same with undergrad) but it’s very hard to outrank a school that has a significantly larger endowment than Duke.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I entirely agree, @Jwest22. Yes, endowment funding is critical – as you know, Duke reached $7B on 30 June 2104, our largest endowment total ever – but just as important are ingenious ideas and the institutional will/leadership to implement those innovations, especially across traditional university organizational boundaries. That, I believe, is the crux of Terry Sanford’s ceaseless challenge to Duke: OUTRAGEOUS AMBITION(S), which really has served as a paradigm for Duke’s peerlessly rapid ascendancy. </p>
<p>I attended one top ten med school, am a professor at another, and sit on my med school’s admissions committee. Med school rankings are terribly uninformative and without very much meaning. For example, most rankings give heavy weight to NIH funding levels which can have very little relevance for undergraduate medical education. Other rankings are more focused on the reputations of individual postgraduate residency programs, but again this might or might not relate to the undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>The good news for U.S. medical students is that if they work hard and do well, perhaps with some well guided efforts in research or sub-internships at preferred institutions, they are in most cases very likely to get one of their top choices in residency. Premed students should focus efforts on getting accepted at any school and not worry so much about the ranking of the school that accepts them. Med school grads do not at all face the dilemma of business and law students who are at a distinct disadvantage in they attend “lesser” programs. </p>
<p>I know this is a business school related thread. I was at Duke when Fuqua was first launched. Kudos to them for this fine accomplishment.</p>
<p>This ranking doesn’t say much. Seriously. I mean, come on.
Who on earth would rather attend Duke-Fuqua than Harvard B-School or Stanford GSB, or even, Wharton???
I think that, if given a choice, everyone at Fuqua would rather swap places with those at HBS, AGSB or Wharton.
Fuqua is a great business school. But it rather is a school for those who didn’t get accepted to those real big name b-schools, and in most accounts, is hardly even a top 10 b-school overall. Chicago, Kellogg, Sloan, Columbia, Haas and tuck have always been perceived as superior and more prestigious b-schools than Fuqua.</p>
<p>@RML If you were smart you’d realize that this ranking only gives you an angle in which to choose a business school. B-Week uses a completely different methodology to USNWR, FT, Economist etc., it doesn’t make one ranking better or worse than the other. If quality of life, faculty research, and employability matters a ton to a business school applicant then it makes total sense to put greater stock in businessweek’s rankings.</p>
<p>Jwest22, you’re from Duke, right?
Now, I understand why you feel compelled to defend Duke here.
Duke MBAs aren’t more employable than HBS, GSB or Wharton grads are. Seriously.</p>