Top Feeder Colleges to America's Elite B-Schools

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<p>goldenboy, </p>

<p>Haas is a consistent top 9 business school based on USNews’ ranking. It is, at least, as good as Datmouth-Tuck, and slightly better than Columbia’s, according to that ranking table. It never has been ranked outside of the top 10 in recent years. [U.S&lt;/a&gt;. News’ Historical MBA Rankings | Poets and Quants](<a href=“http://poetsandquants.com/2012/04/18/u-s-news-historical-mba-rankings/]U.S”>http://poetsandquants.com/2012/04/18/u-s-news-historical-mba-rankings/)
So, if Tuck and Columbia were there, why not Haas? Haas is more difficult to get into than both Tuck and Columbia based on stats, and has slightly better opportunities after grad as demonstrated by their slightly higher salary scale after graduation. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13547020-post2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13547020-post2.html&lt;/a&gt;
[B-Schools&lt;/a&gt; With The ‘Best Career Prospects’ | Poets and Quants](<a href=“http://poetsandquants.com/2012/03/29/b-schools-offering-mbas-the-best-career-prospects/2/]B-Schools”>http://poetsandquants.com/2012/03/29/b-schools-offering-mbas-the-best-career-prospects/2/)
Fuqua, Stern, Ross and Darden are also elite business schools. But most surveys will tell you that Haas is the consistent better business school to any of them.</p>

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<p>Of course that includes those profiles that are publicly available through FB or Linkedin, or are extrapolated accordingly.</p>

<p>For the complete list of former schools of students currently at Harvard Business School (but only HBS), as available through the official HBS Classcards database (which really should include every current student), the following enumerates some of the represented schools:</p>

<p>Harvard - well over 200 (database doesn’t allow you to list more)
Yale - 74
MIT - 48
Princeton - 68
Columbia - 51 (+3 at Barnard)
Cornell - 39
Dartmouth - 42
Brown- 30
Penn - 88
Duke - 47
Chicago - 13
Stanford - 94
Northwestern - 22
UC Berkeley - 42 (+3 at "University of California at Berkeley or University of California, Berkeley)
UCLA- 17
UMichigan - 29
Caltech - 5
UVirginia - 30
US Military Academy - 30
US Naval Academy - 12
US Air Force Academy - 1
University of Cambridge - 40 (+1 at “University of Cambridge, St John’s College”)
University of Oxford - 55
London School of Economics - 46
BYU - 26
Georgetown - 32
Johns Hopkins - 9</p>

<p>Now, to be perfectly clear, the above list signifies the university affiliations for all former universities of the current student body (for both current MBA class years). Students who have attended multiple schools - whether because they studied at a graduate program at a different school from their undergraduate program before attending the Harvard MBA program; because they transferred from one undergrad program to another; studied as an exchange student; or any other reason for having multiple affiliations - will be listed under all of those affiliations. I’m frankly feeling too lazy to distill only the undergrad affiliations. So take the listings for what they’re worth.</p>

<p>Why is Chicago doing so poorly on this? It is a top undergrad school and it has one of the finest economics programs in the world. Many economics undergrads I know pursue MBA.</p>

<p>RML, what I actually find even more intriguing is the paucity of UChicago economics undergrads within the top economics PhD programs. The consensus best economics PhD programs - Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, and yes, even Chicago itself- seem to have remarkably few former UChicago economics undergrads. {To be clear, those programs do have former UChicago undergrads from other majors, notably math, but remarkably few actual former economics majors.}</p>

<p>That’s a very interesting information, sakky. I wonder where most UChicago econ grads are going after graduation… </p>

<p>Anyway, please provide data on the number of students at HBS from the ff schools:</p>

<p>Warwick
UCL / University College London
Imperial College London
Durham
Bristol
St Andrews
Edinburgh
Exeter
Bath
Nottingham
National University of Singapore
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore Management University
University of the Philippines / UP Diliman
De La Salle University
Ateneo de Manila University
Universiti Malaya
Chulalongkorn University</p>

<p>I think it’s interesting that UT has 40 and UNC only has 4. People are always so quick to say that UNC is a better school than UT.</p>

<p>UT has a stronger business school than UNC.</p>

<p>I didn’t realize that UT had more than 20,000 more undergraduates than UNC Chapel Hill.</p>

<p>I’m glad I rejuvenated this thread, nice responses. Thanks everyone!</p>

<p>That HBS list can’t be all the schools that the current HBS student body represents. If HBS makes this data readily available, is there a way you can simply obtain a list of ALL the schools represented and how many from each school?</p>

<p>Also, does anybody have the full hard data on this? I see the Poets & Quants list only goes down to about 4 or 5, if a business school has less than 4 or 5 students from a given undergrad then it doesn’t seem to listen them. But I’m sure there are many schools who are represented in these top b-school bodies, even if there are only 1 or 2 students from those schools.</p>

<p>That data would be very helpful as well. Also can’t wait for Kellogg’s enough to appear, but hopefully P&Q can list ALL undergrad schools represented, even if there is just a single student from a particular undergrad school.</p>

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<p>It’s not readily available to the public. </p>

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<p>That would require a lot of work on my part.</p>

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<p>Easy, they found jobs. They are going to work.</p>

<p>MBA programs are not like other grad programs, most require several years of work experience before they are considered for admission.</p>

<p>A lot of students coming out of top UG programs in a business related major (finance, accounting, econ) found jobs with excellent prospect, thus eliminating the need for any MBA degrees. One can say that the most brilliant capable and entrepreurial people don’t need advanced degrees in order to be successful.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the MBA is not as prevalent as some might think in the hedge fund/alternatives world where median compensation tend to be the highest in the finance world, only one third of all hedge fund/alternatives professionals in recent hires held an MBA degree.</p>

<p>But if you’re going through all the data anyway, don’t you keep a count of how many are from each undergrad school? How else would you be able to search through the facebook groups and linkedin groups and find out ONLY the schools that sent 4 or more people? </p>

<p>All I want to know is what undergrad school each member of the Class of 2014 (or 2013) for any one of those schools went to. I went through some Facebook groups, but some are already listing the current b-school as their school. Without looking into their profiles, you can’t tell, for example, if Columbia was their undergrad or if it’s their grad school only. And some still have their employers on them. How do you find out what each student’s undergrad is without having access to their full profiles?</p>

<p>What is GIT?</p>

<p>Georgia Institute of Technology.</p>

<p>Oh okay, but that is not how it’s abbreviated. I got confused there for a minute.</p>

<p>I figured out how to find out about each school. Don’t know if Facebook just added this feature but now you can search within a closed group…not just view the members. Now all I have to do is type a school’s name in a particular school’s class of 2014 group and I can find how many (and who) from that school are going to be in the b-school this year.</p>

<p>Is that a new feature? Didn’t notice it last week.</p>

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<p>Is the implication that Chicago economics undergrads are more likely to enter hedge funds or alternatives than say, the economics undergrads from the Ivies, MIT, or Stanford?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure if that comment was directed to me, but I was not the one perusing facebook/linkedin groups to collate the data. PoetsandQuants did that; you are free to take the issue up with them.</p>

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<p>Don’t most people just call it GT? lol</p>

<p>Not to hijack this thread, but sakky, you’ve got mail.</p>

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<p>The first paragraph is to answer specifically the question on where the U of Chicago econ grads like have gone.</p>

<p>I am surprised you misread my post. No mention of graduates from Ivies, MIT or Stanford, right?</p>