<p>Top</a> Business School Rankings: MBA, Undergrad, Executive & Online MBA - Businessweek</p>
<p>How is Penn number 5? Obviously that's really good but I don't understand how schools like UVA (40% in state acceptance rate) or Washington are ranked higher.</p>
<p>Is UVA better for getting a Wall Street job? It's closely ranked with Penn but much easier to get into and a lot cheaper. Wharton costs 4x as much and is ranked lower. Even if Wharton was number one and UVA was 10, UVA is a much better deal.</p>
<p>Different websites use different methods to rank these schools. In addition, rankings can year to year, which is why people often say it’s meaningless.</p>
<p>I know Penn took a bit of a hit because their applicants have gone down, according to WSJ last month. Students looking at Ivys seem to prefer Harvard, MIT, Stanford as they seem to be more current.</p>
<p>I realize this is an older thread but there seemed to be lack of information as to why UVa ranks so high in business, a distinction they’ve held many years (no Johnny come lately). UVa’s business school is McIntire School of Commerce, a separate admissions process after you have completed your first two years and a series of prerequisites. So students have gone through UVa admissions then another admissions. These are highly qualified students. They are recruited heavily from Wall Street. Recruiters know they can find a large number of highly qualified candidates, not just a few at the top. To those that don’t know the program this may seem very odd, that UVa is highly sought after by recruiters and ranks so high. However, this is a unique subset of students comprised of out of state, international, and instate students that all came to UVa specifically to study at McIntire.</p>