Wharton - NOT #1 business school?

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<p>Hey guys. Everywhere I have heard or read, Wharton is the single best business school (both grad and undergrad, I suppose?) in the nation/world by far, and so accordingly gets the most recruitment by far too. So I was really shocked to come across this ranking. </p>

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<p>Can anyone comment on/explain this? Have I been fed false information all along?</p>

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<p>Dif rankings do things differently. USNEWS ranks Wharton best for undergrad.</p>

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<p>How is this ranking?</p>

<p><a href="http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The FT ranking at least is based on quantitative data. the WSJ ranking isn't based on anything other than a few opinions.</p>

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<p>Different rankings do things differently, that makes sense of course. But WSJ seems like a respectable source, and its methods mentioned above the rankings table states criteria that I think Wharton would be #1 in, such as recruitment.</p>

<p>Maybe I'm just being paranoid, based on one ranking, but it IS the WSJ, and wouldn't #6 and #4 on ANY ranking be too low for Wharton?</p>

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<p>Rankings are good for one thing, to look at. They shouldn't influence any decision you are going to make about your future. No one can accurately rank a school on how good it is. Different people will get different things out of a school and a ranking is just a number. That's it.</p>

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<p>I think that the WSJ rankings are looking at the MBA and graduate rankings, not the undergrad program. </p>

<p>I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.</p>

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<p>I think these are definitely MBA programs, because a lot of the business school names in parentheses are only graduate. Also, some of those articles actually do say that they're MBA rankings. The reason Wharton is such a good undergrad program is that you can go into the world and be just as good as people who come from graduate business schools.</p>

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<p>The fact is that while Wharton's MBA program is not ranked #1 on MOST lists, it is the one most frequently in the top three. And W undergrad is undisputably the best for undergrad business.</p>

<p>The WSJ rankings, like all their other university rankings, are a waste of time to look at...Yale and CMU in the top 5? USC in the top 10? Gimme a ****ing break. Harvard and Stanford at #14, 15? At the grad level, in terms of recruitment, those two equal if not surpass Wharton, and they're ranked below CMU and USC???</p>

<p>Don't pay any more attention to that list.</p>

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<p>From what I hear, WSJ doesn't like Wharton that much</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. So you're saying Wharton undergrad is the best in the nation; its MBA may or may not be, but is definitely among the top three in the nation?</p>

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<p>What's particularly interesting about that list to me is how little of a difference there is in income, employment stats, and overall income increase amongst the top 15 or so schools.</p>

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<p>There is no significant difference in status on the MBA-level between Kellog, Wharton, Stanford, Harvard and their ilk.</p>

<p>However, when it comes to the undergraduate level, Wharton is the clear and undisputed number one.</p>

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<p>Most schools fluctuate on different lists. Usually a top 20 MBA (or even top 25) stays in the top 20 for the different listings. A school can be #14 in Businessweek, #10 in USNEWS, and #19 in Forbes, and #17 in WSJ. You get the point. But a #10 in USNEWS usually won't be a #30 in Businessweek.</p>

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<p>undergrad:
1. Wharton
2. Sloan (MIT)
3. Berkeley/Michigan
5. Stern/CMU/UNC-CH/UT Austin (I think)
9. UVA/USC
11. IU
12. Cornell/UIUC/don't remember the rest</p>

<p>MBA
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Wharton
4. Sloan/Kellogg (Northwestern)
6. Chicago
7. Columbia/Berkeley
9. Dartmouth
10. UCLA
11. Duke/Michigan
13. Stern/UVA
whatever else</p>

<p>But Wharton's considered the best in MBA too. :D</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot guys. Great.</p>

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<p>CMU has an excellent business school. It just isn't that well known; gets overshadowed by the CS school.</p>

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<p>Of course CMU's business school is excellent...nobody here said it wasn't. But is it better than the b-schools at Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Columbia, NYU, UMich, Dartmouth, Berkeley, Chicago, Northwestern, and MIT? I'm sure you'd agree that it isn't. So right there, it's in 12th place (if I counted right).</p>

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<p>I'm sure I would, but seeing as I will probably reject CMU in favor of Penn, I thought I should throw in a good word for it. :)</p>

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<p>lol. in that case, CMU IS AWESOME, GUYS!</p>

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<p>Here's what the DP has to say :
<a href="http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/433a344813b76?in_archive=1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/433a344813b76?in_archive=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>