<p>you know, </p>
<p>Mendoza just won 1st at the Businessweek's undergraduate business ranking.</p>
<p>Many says it is flawed,</p>
<p>but I want to know what you guys think.</p>
<p>FYI, I got into Mendoza and am really interested in going there^^</p>
<p>so I want to believe the ranking.-.-</p>
<p>I wonder “how they calculate the intangibles such as teaching quality because mere surveys can NOT do that.” I would take the ranking of Mendoza as #1 with a grain of salt. It is all good but I would not take it really seriously, rankings are meant to sell newspaper and make money not benefit the people reading them (to some extent).</p>
<p>You should believe in businessweek’s ranking as much as you would believe in Santa Claus.</p>
<p>I think it’s an indication of the overall academic quality at Notre Dame, but not necessarily reflective of the employment/recruiting situation, especially in Finance. Furthermore, I’d be pretty skeptical of any ranking system where Seattle tops the recruiting rankings. The methodology is a little suspect and the response rates are all over the place which really calls into question the validity of the data. ND’s a good school and all, but I wouldn’t’ pick Mendoza simply because of the rankings. If you’re looking to go into I-banking Penn, or any Ivy (except for maybe Cornell and Brown), is going to open more doors for you.</p>
<p>who the hell cares. it’s a great business program. stupid question.</p>
<p>basically all i would take from it is that ND has a solid business school and is a competitive school - also it should be taken into account that ND has one of the best alumni network of any college in the US and this can help out a lot.</p>
<p>My best friend is a professor in the business school. I think it’s a decent school…which is something most people can figure out on their own. So, in terms of the BusinessWeek ranking: it adds 0 credible information. What does #1 mean anyway? In college football polls, I think it’s important to be ranked #1 by a handful of so-called “experts” – but I don’t choose who to cheer for (and high school kids don’t choose who to play for) on the basis of such polls. Until someone comes up with a playoff or championship contest between top-ranked business schools, I honestly have no idea who gives a hoot about this. It’s nice…like a warm, sunny day in February in South Bend…but it’s fleeting and doesn’t have any broad implications. About the best that it’s good for is conversations like this.</p>