Top Business Schools - survey by WSJ

<p>Maybe you have to register to get this:
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/documents/MB-AA024F_STATSPACK.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/documents/MB-AA024F_STATSPACK.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>An excerpt:</p>

<p>1) University of Michigan (Ross)
2) Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
3) Dartmouth College (Tuck)
4) UPenn (Wharton)..</p>

<p>....</p>

<p>Just thought it was interesting..</p>

<p>Yup, you have to register. Please post more. Did the management schools at SUNY-Binghamton or SUNY-Albany make the list at all? Thanks.</p>

<p>SUNY Buffalo made number 15 in Regional rankings. I can't post the entire list, it would be copyright violation and the moderators would remove it.</p>

<p>Here is the criteria for selection:
"The National and Regional rankings are both determined by how recruiters rate each MBA program on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit students from the school, and the number of survey respondents who said they have recruited recently at the school. Business schools in the National ranking tend to attract a relatively large number of recruiters, many of whom come from national and multinational companies and pay high salaries. MBA programs in the Regional rankings are more likely to bring in recruiters from their region than the schools in the National ranking. They also generally have smaller MBA enrollments and attract fewer recruiters than the National schools".</p>

<p>That seems interesting. I always thought that Wharton, Stanford, MIT, and Harvard were tops.</p>

<p>Here are the top 15 (National pull)</p>

<p>1 University of Michigan (Ross)
2 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
3 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
4 University of Pennsylvania
(Wharton)
5 University of Chicago
6 Yale University
7 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
8 Columbia University
9 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Sloan)
10 Stanford University
11 University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
12 University of Virginia (Darden)
13 Harvard University
14 Duke University (Fuqua)
15 University of California, Berkeley</p>

<p>Where is NYU Stern on the list?</p>

<p>NYU Stern is number 17, number 16 is UT (McCombs).</p>

<p>most people in the business world know that the WSJ rankings are not reliable (nor are the FT, Forbes, or the Economist rankings). USNews and Business Week are the only two rankings that are accurate and actually reflect academics and recruiter opinions.</p>

<p>I'm not sure about than Bern - the WSJ rankings place heavy emphasis on recruiter input. That said, BW is given the most regard.</p>

<p>Humm, Alexandre will spend a fortune faxing this list all over the world. :)</p>

<p>whatever, talk to most business execs about the WSJ rankings and most think they are laughable...they lost all credibility when a few years ago they ranked stanford 43rd...</p>

<p>if you want actual recruiter opinions definitely read BW as (themegastud said). They are the most reliable rankings.
I can assure you that 90+% of recruiters don't consider UNC or CMU better than HBS, etc. If that were true why does HBS have the highest average salary???</p>

<p>Alexandre referring to these rankings (btw these came out ages ago):</p>

<p>"WSJ is not reliable. Nor are the Economist, FT or Forbes rankings. The only two rankings that reflect the opinion of recruiters and academics are BW and USNWR. And I stated that clearly in my post above. I think that combining the two rankings gives the best picture. Harvard, Kellogg, Stanford and Wharton are the top 4. Chicago, MIT, Columbia and Michigan are the next 4. Tuck and Fuqua round up the top 10."</p>

<p>wow i just realized that in my earlier post I sound suprisingly similar to Alexandre...scary. lol</p>

<p>i've been spending too much time on here.</p>

<p>If you like to see how different rankings can be, there are sites dedicated to the art and science of comparing business schools:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bschool.com/best_b-schools.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bschool.com/best_b-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankbus.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankbus.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Have fun!</p>

<p>PS The best part of the UIUC site is this:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankoversy.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankoversy.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>