<p>For graduate students ,which matters more to HR ,overall ranking or business school ranking?</p>
<p>I’d say business school ranking weighs more but not by much.</p>
<p>When you say graduate student and business school I assume you mean MBA. If that is the case, all that matters for post-grad placement is the ranking of your MBA program. The overall ranking of the university only comes into play to the extent that most of the best MBA programs are within top universities. If you’ve got admits from Yale SOM and Chicago Booth you go to Chicago every time even though Yale is the more prestigious university overall.</p>
<p>Here is the MBA pecking order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard, Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>1.5 Wharton</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth</p></li>
<li><p>Berkeley, NYU, Michigan</p></li>
</ol>
<p>3.5 Yale, Duke, Cornell, UVA, UCLA, UT, CMU, UNC</p>
<p>Thx for the insight.</p>
<p>for MBA programs bschooler’s list is spot on</p>
<p>^should gtown be mentioned?</p>
<p>Here is the real MBA pecking order</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard, Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>1.5 Wharton</p>
<ol>
<li>Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, Columbia</li>
</ol>
<p>2.5 Dartmouth</p>
<ol>
<li>Berkeley, NYU, Duke</li>
</ol>
<p>3.5 Yale, Michigan, Cornell, UVA, UCLA</p>
<p>4.0 UT, CMU, UNC, USC</p>
<p>^That’s exactly spot on correct in my opinion. I would maybe drop MIT down a notch to Dartmouth’s level but blbk has got it right.</p>
<p>“for MBA programs bschooler’s list is spot on”</p>
<p>Here is the MBA pecking order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard, Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>1.5 Wharton</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth</p></li>
<li><p>Berkeley, NYU, Michigan</p></li>
</ol>
<p>3.5 Yale, Duke, Cornell, UVA, UCLA, UT, CMU, UNC </p>
<p>Agreed!</p>
<p>In terms of prestige, connections, graduate placements, quality of students and so on, Berkeley-Haas is slightly superior to both Columbia’s and Dartmouth-Tuck’s. But I would personally put them in this order: </p>
<p>The Big 3
Harvard</p>
<p>Stanford, Wharton</p>
<p>Northwestern-Kellogg, Chicago, MIT-Sloan
Berkeley-Haas, Dartmouth-Tuck, Columbia</p>
<p>Michigan-Ross, Duke-Fuqua, Yale-SOM, NYU-Stern, UVA-Darden
Cornell-Johnson
UCLA-Anderson, Texas-McCombs, CMU-Tepper</p>
<p>wharton may have once been a bridge between h/s and the next elite group but not anymore.</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford
Kellogg, Wharton, Chicago, MIT
Columbia, Dartmouth, Berkeley
Michigan, NYU
Yale, Cornell, Duke, UVA</p>
<p>My take on the small differences in how people rank about is that for MBA programs what you actually want to do makes the biggest difference between the top schools. If you are into finance, then Wharton and Columbia go to the top. If you want to do technology, then Stanford is the clear number one. If you want to work in corporate management then Kellogg and Dartmouth (Tuck) rises. Its like this across a number of areas. I’ve listed the top schools in different areas below (in my personal experience).</p>
<p>Corporate Management programs: Harvard, Dartmouth, Kellogg, MIT
Finance (Banking and Hedge Funds) : Wharton, Harvard, Columbia, Chicago
Finance (PE + VC): Stanford, Harvard
Retail: Columbia, Northwestern, Harvard
Internet: Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley
Entertainment: Harvard, UCLA</p>
<p>Thx,it’s very helpful for top schools positioning.</p>