<p>Hi gellino -- it's a good insight but might be a good idea not to have it publicly available. CC will give you a few minutes to edit your post.</p>
<p>Too late to edit, although certainly one doesn't need my post to come to that conclusion. It limits his identity to one of 30,000+ to have graduated from HBS in the last 50 years.</p>
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Too late to edit, although certainly one doesn't need my post to come to that conclusion. It limits his identity to one of 30,000+ to have graduated from HBS in the last 50 years.
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<p>Or to just somebody who knows how to access the data, right? HBS staff employees and faculty have access to the database. Or maybe I'm married or related to somebody on the staff? Who knows, right? </p>
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Northwestern University
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Purdue University
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
UC-Boulder
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<p>UCBoulder - 93 </p>
<p>University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - 98 (plus another 11 at the "University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, even though I think that's the same thing as Twin Cities)</p>
<p>Purdue - 283</p>
<p>Wisconsin - 132 listed as "University of Wisconsin", and another 45 listed as "University of Wisconsin Madison" (even though I think that's the same thing)</p>
<p>Illinois - 164 listed as "University of Illinois" and another 70 as "University of Illinois Urbana" (again, even though I think that's the same thing)</p>
<p>Northwestern - 346</p>
<p>Now, again, you have to keep in mind that obviously some schools are bigger than others. For example, Northwestern has about 8000 undergrads. UIUC and Purdue each have over 31000.</p>
<p>Northwestern beats UMich and Berkeley on per capita basis. Go Cats! ;)</p>
<p>sakky,</p>
<p>If you have time, can you list the numbers for Big10, Pac10, and ACC? :)</p>
<p>Stanford - 1204
UCBerkeley-548
Michigan-468
Duke-428
UCLA-202
USC-176
Arizona-47
Arizona State-27
ORegon-22
Oregon State-31
Washington-164
Washington State-26
Wake Forest-16
Maryland (College Park) - 25
NCState-59
UNC Chapel Hill - 218
Virginia-379
Florida State-23
Miami-32
Clemson-23
Boston College-262
Georgia Tech - 351
Virginia Tech - 52
Ohio State - 103
Iowa - 83
Indiana - 64 (plus another 28 under "Indiana University Bloomington")
Penn State - 146
Michigan State - 94</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Rearrange by conference:</p>
<p>Big10
Michigan-468
Northwestern - 346
Purdue - 283
Illinois - 234
Wisconsin - 177
Minnesota - 109
Ohio State - 103
Iowa - 83
Indiana - 92
Penn State - 146
Michigan State - 94</p>
<p>Pac-10
Stanford - 1204
UCBerkeley-548
UCLA-202
USC-176
Arizona-47
Arizona State-27
ORegon-22
Oregon State-31
Washington-164
Washington State-26</p>
<p>Duke-428
Wake Forest-16
Maryland (College Park) - 25
NCState-59
UNC Chapel Hill - 218
Virginia-379
Florida State-23
Miami-32
Clemson-23
Boston College-262
Georgia Tech - 351
Virginia Tech - 52</p>
<p>sakky, excellent info! Greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>When you have some spare time, could you post the # for Case Western Reserve University?</p>
<p>As gracious as it is for sakky to do this, you people have to remember that total number is just not a good metric -- you'd have to control for not only student body size but quality as well in order to find any real surprises. Is it surprising that Stanford has more students than Ga Tech? How many more should we expect them to have? Does this mean that the same student should choose Stanford over Ga Tech, because Stanford is an automatic boost? Or maybe GT is actually doing disproportionately well...</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>Indeed, I am very surprised with GaTech number.</p>
<p>Whats so surprising about Georgia Tech's number?</p>
<p>Sakky,</p>
<p>How about other Undergrad B-Schools that you haven't mentioned such as:</p>
<p>BU
Northeastern
Texas-Austin
NYU</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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Whats so surprising about Georgia Tech's number?
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Nothing. It's a hypothetical.</p>
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you'd have to control for not only student body size but quality as well in order to find any real surprises.
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<p>Another omitted variable would be geographic location. For example, those who attend college in the East Coast are probably more likely to attend HBS vs. those who went to college out West. </p>
<p>Those who attended a college that itself has a top-ranked business school may tend to prefer going back to their 'home alma mater' for their MBA rather than go to HBS. </p>
<p>Those who are residents of states that have a strong public MBA program may prefer to attend that kind of program rather than attend HBS in order to save money. Personally I think this is just a minor factor when you consider how much money you can potentially make with a HBS MBA (i.e by working in private equity). But I suppose it could be an important factor for some people, i.e. those who anticipate working in lower-paid fields (i.e. operations or nonprofits). </p>
<p>Note, all of these factors would heavily 'hurt' the Stanford numbers. Stanford grads are probably located in California (and hence may not want to go East), will often times tend to prefer going back to Stanford for their MBA, and are probably California state residents and hence might prefer to go to Berkeley Haas or UCLA Anderson in order to save money.</p>
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Indeed, I am very surprised with GaTech number.
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<p>GaTech, like all tech schools, churns out lots and lots of engineers. Engineers tend to disproportionately attend B-school.</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve - 95
Boston University - 202
Northeastern - 123
NYU - 118
University of Texas - 264
University of Texas, Austin - 23</p>
<p>I'm not sure exactly what the difference is between "University of Texas" and "University of Texas, Austin".</p>
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I'm not sure exactly what the difference is between "University of Texas" and "University of Texas, Austin".
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<p>Probably just input differently. The other schools in the UT system (ie Arlington, Brownsville, Tyler, etc) aren't going to be well represented at top business schools.</p>
<p>Oh, I thought you guys were never interested in information like what sakki provides...... LoL.......</p>
<p>sakky,</p>
<p>can you provide the number for colgate? thanks. :)</p>
<p>Colgate = 179</p>