<p>I was wondering how many saw this post in Business Week:</p>
<p>"At schools with four-year programs, SAT and ACT requirements have gone up. The average sat score for freshmen admitted to the Indiana University business program, where applications nearly doubled last year, is now 1340 [SAT CR+M] up from 1312 in 2005-2006 and a full 343 points higher than the national average for test takers who intend to major in business." </p>
<p>I notice that the overall SAT (CR+M) average at the business school moved up also and is now 1222. This includes those admitted as freshmen plus those admitted later on.</p>
<p>Interesting that IU dropped 8 spots in the rankings (from 10 to 18) despite this--although I see the school has already announced that they will be performing an upgrade to the facilities (the one area where the IU business school was ranked low this year).</p>
<p>Of course, that was the Business Week rankings. The IU undergraduate business school is still ranked 11th in US News and World Report.</p>
<p>Calcruzer, those scores are impressive. A son of friends of mine visited Indiana for a couple of days this week. He's from California. He liked the campus. The students were enthusiastic about the school. But, the state of Indiana, it was just too rural for him. He's going to Colorado. I wonder what Indiana would be ranked if the university was someplace else.</p>
<p>Well, Indiana's business school probably wouldn't catch Penn, MIT, NYU, Berkeley, Emory, Michigan or Virginia, but they would be competitive with (and maybe pass) Texas, UNC, Villanova, Georgetown, Boston College, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Brigham Young and possibly even Cornell on Business Week's list IMHO.</p>
<p>Last year they were already ranked ahead of Georgetown, Villanova, Boston College, and Wake Forest (right now they are less than 6 rating points behind all of those schools). I expect after fixing up the facilities they will at least move ahead of those schools again. Moving IU to a less rural area outside of Indiana on either the east or west coasts would probably allow them to pass all of the second group mentioned IMHO, but moving it to Indianapolis probably wouldn't improve the ranking much.</p>
Well, Indiana's business school probably wouldn't catch Penn, MIT, NYU, Berkeley, Emory, Michigan or Virginia, but they would be competitive with (and maybe pass) Texas, UNC, Villanova, Georgetown, Boston College, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Brigham Young and possibly even Cornell on Business Week's list IMHO.
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<p>well, it's certainly possible for IU to pass the ones mentioned on the latter list in the BW rankings, because it was ranked ahead of many of them last year already. I don't really know what to make of BW's rankings though, because they seem to fluctuate widely for some schools. It baffles me as to how some schools were in the top 30 last year and were unranked this year. Not that rankings mean much to me anyway, just like to see IU get some recognition.</p>
<p>BW changes the rankings just to make money. The only schools that generally don't change too much are the top 3-5. Kelley kicks and it will continue to get better and harder to get into.</p>