US NEWS V. Businessweek

<p>Whats the difference and which one is more accurate. I know some schools with a variance of 40 ranks!</p>

<p>USNews>BW; businessweek has Emory over MIT...nuff said</p>

<p>BW also has Villanova over UNC...huh?
The rankings systems are quite different. US News has been around for a long time so it seems more reliable. Interesting to see both though and compare.</p>

<p>I trust neither US news nor Business Week. </p>

<p>Business week recently published its second ranking. And there are some major changes in it. No one can convince me that universities change so dramatically in one year. Bur generally places are distributed normally in 2007 ranking except some big mistakes (some schools are underrated,)
US news- It is funny to look at the ranking where Arizona State, University of Arizona, and some other state schools are higher in rank that Georgetown and many other top universities. </p>

<p>“To identify the best undergraduate business programs, Business Week used five distinctive measures, including a survey of nearly 80,000 business majors at top schools and a poll of undergraduate recruiters. To better understand career outcomes, we also looked at starting salaries for graduates and how many each school sent to top MBA programs. Finally, an academic quality score--a combination of five measures including average SAT scores and faculty-student ratios—identified schools with the smartest, hardest-working, and best-served students”.</p>

<p>Many criticize US news peer assessment, saying that college councilors can’t know much about other universities. It may be true BUT Business Week used survey of 80 000 college students, and it is obvious that students gave high grades to their universities (except ones who hate the place where they are studying, because of social life, workload, grade deflation and etc and this is also not fare in Business Week’s ranking because poor social life is not the factor which must be used when determining institutions academic quality in business). Let’s take the university with normal or poor academic quality but with great social life, living conditions and with many extracurricular activities. People at this university will write A+ to their institutions, because they are happy and WANT to think that their school is best. Students want to tell others “hey my school is in top 20”. </p>

<p>Some schools are underrated. Let’s look at the institution with great academic quality and obviously with hard workload and with poor social life. Of course there would be individuals who will think that Business Week’s ranking is the best way to “revenge” (and I know people who really think so) </p>

<p>BTW are the students allowed to grade other institutions? In that case Business Week’s ranking becomes more inaccurate.</p>

<p>i dont bother with the ranking i only look at career and alumni affair section of businessweek</p>