<p>OP means “original poster” – here meaning you.</p>
<p>Here are the numbers: [Undergraduate</a> Program - Admissions, School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison](<a href=“http://www.bus.wisc.edu/undergraduate/admissions/]Undergraduate”>http://www.bus.wisc.edu/undergraduate/admissions/)</p>
<p>Anyone can answer my question above???</p>
<p>Notice that the index column (which is what Businessweek ranked the schools by) comes before the teacher quality grade. I assume this means that the grades they assigned were not part of the rankings. Therefore UIUC’s C in teacher quality wasn’t a factor.</p>
<p>Also, they ranked 31st in academic quality vs 55th for UW. What exactly they use to judge academic quality–not sure.</p>
<p>The specific ranking is not relevant; it’s way too subjective. I was just trying to show you that UIUC is consistently ranked slightly higher that UW for business. IMO, I would consider the consistency of the results using different ranking methods to be more indicative than any individual ranking.</p>
<p>It’s like it undergrad “rankings” of schools, Harvard is typically 1-4 and UW is typically 20-40. It doesn’t matter whether one ranking had Harvard at exactly 2 or 1 and Wisconsin at 28 or 32, all that matters is that it’s reasonable to say that Harvard is ranked higher than Wisconsin. </p>
<p>Obviously the difference between UIUC and UW business is far more subtle.</p>