<p>BW did a prelease of the UG b-school ranking through their chat.</p>
<ol>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Virginia (McIntire)</li>
<li>MIT (Sloan)</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>UC Berkeley (Haas)</li>
<li>Emory (Goizueta)</li>
<li>University of Michigan (Ross)</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Texas-Austin (McCombs)</li>
<li>Brigham Young (Marriott)</li>
<li>NYU Stern</li>
<li>Washington University St. Louis (Olin)</li>
<li>University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)</li>
<li>Richmond (Robins)</li>
<li>Miami University (Ohio)</li>
<li>Babson</li>
<li>WakeForest</li>
<li>Indiana (Kelley)</li>
<li>Villanova</li>
<li>Bentley</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>William & Mary</li>
<li>Illinois at Urbana Champaign</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>University of San Diego</li>
<li>Penn State (Smeal)</li>
<li>Texas Christian</li>
<li>Southern Methodist (Cox)</li>
<li>Northeastern</li>
<li>University of Washington (Foster)</li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic</li>
<li>Binghamton</li>
<li>University of Maryland</li>
<li>Boston University</li>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Santa Clara</li>
<li>DePaul</li>
<li>James Madison</li>
<li>Wisconsin (Madison)</li>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>Loyola Maryland</li>
<li>Seattle University</li>
<li>Syracuse (Whitman)</li>
<li>Fordham</li>
<li>Georgia (Terry)</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
</ol>
<p>Recruiter Ranking:
1. Notre Dame
2. Texas-Austin
3. Boston College
4. Penn State
5. Miami University
6. UC Berkeley (Haas)
7. Brigham Young University
8. Seattle University
9. USC (Marshall)
10. Michigan State University</p>
<p>Student Ranking:
1. Notre Dame
2. Virginia (McIntire)
3. Cornell University
4. Emory University
5. Texas Christian University
6. Brigham Young University
7. Villanova University
8. Babson College
9. Texas-Austin
10. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)</p>
<p>I have several theories. One of them is that they print out the homepage of each school’s website, make it into a paper airplane and see which one flies the farthest. Whoever folds the one for ND makes really tight creases. Another is that they paint the school’s initials on bunnies and race them. The ND bunny is on steroids.</p>
<p>Business Week’s rankings aren’t that bad or unconventional.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Notre Dame 1st is definitely a bit odd. However, Notre Dame is still a prestigious institution, so it’s not THAT crazy, although certainly quesitonable.</p></li>
<li><p>UV is skewed higher than one might except, but nothing too ridiculous.</p></li>
<li><p>MIT is MIT, this makes sense.</p></li>
<li><p>While Wharton is an excellent business school that has my utmost admiration and respect, it’s located in West Philadelphia, which isn’t the safest or most entrepreneurial place in America. This may have hurt Wharton a bit.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>5-10 all make sense in my opinion. One might say Goizuetta and Boston College are out of place, but they are both excellent business schools. Goizuetta is in Atlanta, which is full of entrepreneurial opportunity. Boston College is becoming increasingly more elite and prestigious and has great recruitment because of it’s reputation and location.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>BYU is…well…BYU, it’s like 98% Mormon so I mean…***</p></li>
<li><p>NYU and 14. UNC should be bumped into top ten.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Other than that everything else looks good imo</p>
They had low response rate from the recruiters.</p>
<p>" further 10 were cut for low response rates in the recruiter survey: American University, Belmont University, Chapman University, Duquesne University, Elon University, Samford University, St. Louis University, State University of New York at Geneseo, University of California-Riverside, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. An additional five schools were eliminated because of low response rates on both surveys: Creighton University, Iona College, University of Massachusetts-Boston, University of the Pacific, and the University of Tulsa."</p>
<p>Wharton not being #1 totally makes sense. They have been slipping all these years. The only reason people think W is good is because of the USNWR, which has very little movement, and pretty much an old boys club for ivy leagues. </p>
<p>Have you ever visited UPenn? It’s so unsafe it’s scary. Why do you think there’s 4 security guards at every school corner? </p>
<p>For UG, where college life is big part of the equation, I can definitely see why people would choose other schools over W. </p>
<p>Even for MBA, after a visit to W, it was off of my list.</p>
<p>I would expect ND in the 12-15 range and Emory and BC would be after it. I would bump UNC, NYU and CMU into the top 10 and USC would probably be ahead of ND as well. Cornell should be knocked down near 10th as Berkeley, Michigan, Texas, NYU and UNC have stronger programs, Virginia could stand to be knocked down a couple slots and Georgetown could stand to move up a few.</p>
<p>I agree ND is probably not number 1, but you all heavily underrate the alumni network of Notre Dame. Notre Dame’s alums are very very loyal (moreso than any school except the Ivy League). This helps their recruiting a lot. Yes the programs at ND isnt academically as good as Texas or BYU, but the alumni network that they have outweighs that when you consider recruiting…especially NATIONALLY.</p>