<p>The numbers in the ranking are so bizarre.</p>
<p>However, I agree on what they commented on, "Many feel the grading curve is unfair." :(</p>
<p>Thanks for posting that</p>
<p>Marshall's ranking is quite low!</p>
<p>Probably lower than the US News and World Report ranking because they use a different methodology to compute their rankings.</p>
<p>At Marshall, is every business class graded on a curve? I'm going to be a Communication major but would like to take a few business classes; however, I might think twice if every class were difficult to achieve a good grade.</p>
<p>USNEWS: 2006: Best Undergraduate Business Rankings:</p>
<p>1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
2 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Sloan)
3 University of CaliforniaBerkeley (Haas)
** University of MichiganAnn Arbor
5 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
** New York University (Stern)
** U. of North CarolinaChapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
** University of TexasAustin (McCombs)
9 Univ. of Southern California (Marshall)
** University of Virginia (McIntire)
11 Indiana UniversityBloomington (Kelley)
12 Cornell University (NY)
** Purdue Univ.West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)
** U. of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign
** Univ. of MinnesotaTwin Cities (Carlson)
** Univ. of WisconsinMadison
** Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
18 Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)
** Ohio State UniversityColumbus (Fisher)
** Pennsylvania State U.University Park (Smeal)
** University of Arizona (Eller)
22 Michigan State University (Broad)
** Univ. of MarylandCollege Park (Smith)
** University of Notre Dame (IN)
** University of Washington
26 Arizona State University (Carey)
** Babson College (MA)
** Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC)
** University of Florida (Warrington)
30 Boston College (Carroll)
** Case Western Reserve Univ. (Weatherhead) (OH)
** Texas A&M Univ.College Station (Mays)
** University of Georgia (Terry)
** Wake Forest University (Calloway) (NC)
35 Brigham Young Univ.Provo (Marriott) (UT)
** Georgia Institute of Technology
** Southern Methodist University (Cox) (TX)
** University of ColoradoBoulder
** University of Iowa (Tippie)
40 Boston University
** Syracuse University (Whitman) (NY)
** Tulane University (Freeman) (LA)
** University of Arkansas (Walton)
** University of Pittsburgh
** Univ. of South CarolinaColumbia (Moore)
** Virginia Tech (Pamplin)
47 Bentley College (MA)
** College of William and Mary (VA)
** CUNYBaruch College (Zicklin)
** Florida State University
** George Washington University (DC)
** Georgia State University (Robinson)
** Miami UniversityOxford (Farmer) (OH)
** Univ. of MissouriColumbia
** University of Oklahoma (Price)
** University of Tennessee
57 Auburn University (AL)
** Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (Lally) (NY)
** Santa Clara University (Leavey) (CA)
** University of Alabama (Culverhouse)
** University of Kansas
** University of Kentucky (Gatton)
** Univ. of NebraskaLincoln
** University of Oregon (Lundquist)
** University of Utah (Eccles)
66 Baylor University (Hankamer) (TX)
** DePaul University (IL)
** Louisiana State U.Baton Rouge (Ourso)
** North Carolina State U.Raleigh
** Northeastern University (MA)
** Pepperdine University (Graziadio) (CA)
** Rochester Inst. of Technology (NY)
** United States Air Force Acad. (CO)
** University of Connecticut
** University of IllinoisChicago
** Univ. of MassachusettsAmherst (Isenberg)
77 Clemson University (SC)
** Iowa State University
** RutgersNew Brunswick (NJ)
** San Diego State University
** Temple University (Fox) (PA)
** University at BuffaloSUNY
** Univ. of CaliforniaRiverside
** University of Denver (Daniels)
** University of Miami (FL)
** University of Richmond (Robins) (VA)
87 American University (Kogod) (DC)
** Colorado State University
** Fordham University (NY)
** Lehigh University (PA)
** Loyola University Chicago
** Marquette University (WI)
** Oklahoma State University
** St. Louis University
** Texas Christian University (Neeley)
** Texas Tech University (Rawls)
** University of AlabamaBirmingham
** University of Delaware
** University of Louisville (KY)
** University of Mississippi
** U. of North CarolinaCharlotte (Belk)
** University of San Diego
** University of TexasDallas
** Villanova University (PA)
** Washington State University
106 George Mason University (VA)
** James Madison University (VA)
** Kansas State University
** Loyola Marymount University (CA)
** University of Cincinnati
** University of Houston (Bauer)
** University of TexasArlington
** Univ. of WisconsinMilwaukee
** Virginia Commonwealth University
** Washington and Lee University (VA)
116 Ball State University (IN)
** California State U.Los Angeles
** Creighton University (NE)
** Drexel University (LeBow) (PA)
** Hofstra University (Zarb) (NY)
** Northern Illinois University
** Ohio University
** Oregon State University
** Pace University (Lubin) (NY)
** RutgersNewark (NJ)
** San Jose State University (CA)
** Seton Hall University (Stillman) (NJ)
** Southern Illinois U.Carbondale
** SUNYAlbany
** SUNYBinghamton
** Trinity University (TX)
** University of Central Florida
** Univ. of Colo.Colorado Springs
** University of Dayton (OH)
** University of Memphis (Fogelman)
** Univ. of MissouriKansas City (Bloch)
** University of New Mexico (Anderson)
** University of San Francisco (McLaren)
** West Virginia University
** Wichita State University (Barton) (KS)
141 Bowling Green State University (OH)
** Cal PolySan Luis Obispo
** Florida International University
** Gonzaga University (WA)
** John Carroll University (OH)
** Kennesaw State University (Coles) (GA)
** Kent State University (OH)
** Loyola College in Maryland (Sellinger)
** Loyola University New Orleans (Butt)
** Mississippi State University
** RutgersCamden (NJ)
** Seattle University (Albers)
** St. Joseph's University (Haub) (PA)
** University of AlabamaHuntsville
** University of ColoradoDenver and Health Sciences Center
** University of Idaho
** Univ. of MissouriSt. Louis
** University of NebraskaOmaha
** University of NevadaLas Vegas
** University of New Hampshire (Whittemore)
** U. of North CarolinaGreensboro (Bryan)
** University of North Texas
** University of Rhode Island
** University of South Florida
** University of Tulsa (OK)
** Xavier University (Williams) (OH)</p>
<p>now THAT was quite a post!!!! :)</p>
<p>So, can any USC Marshall students comment on the unfairness of the grading curve, or elaborate?</p>
<p>1:62.0</p>
<p>That is HUGE! I think its also the largest on the list...possibly a mistake? SMU (Cox) Dallas (#20) is 1:13.2, and is Illinois Urbana-Champaign (#22) 1:24.0</p>
<p>Berkeley Haas is even 1:7.4</p>
<p>Yea, it's a mistake. See <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=182806%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=182806</a></p>
<p>I got the impression that Businessweek's rankings were more based on the perspectives of students and corporations wheras the US News and World Report's rankings are more "popular" perception by academic types/the general public. Businessweek seemed to put more of a focus on success (a subjective category incorporating median starting salary, number of internships done, etc.) after graduation rather than a curriculum focus. There was a nice mention of a high school student who picked USC after being courted by another top school, though, and there's a picture of a USC campus tour in a following article about students pursuing MBAs whose undergrad major wasn't business.</p>