erapitt Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Your favorite ranking Guide: USNews, Business Week, Financial Times, or Forbes? http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarank_brief.php http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/geographic.htm http://news.ft.com/businesslife/mba http://www.forbes.com/2003/09/24/bschooland.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tm3 Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 BW all the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwww Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Rankings are here to stay. In the absence of a single incontrovertible measure of performance, the rankings provide a degree of accountability in an educational niche where there is too little. It's a fact, however, that the more the lists proliferate and differ, the less attention students pay to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excel_GMAT Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Thanks for the post on Rankings. Could someone from this form advise which one is the most reliable ranking? US News / BW / FT? Because I see US News and FT ranks differ a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinola Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Thanks for the links. I didn't browse on them at all, but i do believe the ranking is just one of perspective, besides from Classmate, Environment etc., that we will use to select the business school . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_Gr8_Mperor Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Concur with Pinola We have to take a holistic approach during the selection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elige Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Just like B-schools when selecting candidates, Da_Gr8! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notabene Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I tend to belive that Business Week is THE ranking guide for B-schools. Although USNews rankings are regularly consulted by business school candidates, they are not as important as they are for other types of schools. Also, you can really talk about B-schools "tiers" in the sense that BW does, and not so much in that of USNews which calls "Tier 1" 50 schools. BW calls Tier 1 the first top 30 B-schools, Tier 2 the other 20, and Tier 3 some 20 other schools. Tier 1 Northwestern (Kellogg) Chicago Pennsylvania (Wharton) Stanford Harvard Michigan Cornell (Johnson) Columbia MIT (Sloan) Dartmouth (Tuck) Duke (Fuqua) Virginia (Darden) NYU (Stern) UCLA (Anderson) Carnegie Mellon UNC - Chapel Hill UC Berkeley (Haas) Indiana Texas - Austin (McCombs) Emory (Goizueta) Purdue (Krannert) Yale Washington University (Olin) Notre Dame Georgetown (McDonough) Babson (Olin) USC (Marshall) Maryland (Smith) Rochester (Simon) Vanderbilt (Owen) Tier 2 Arizona State Boston College Boston University Birgham Young California Irvine Case Western Georgia (Terry) Georgia Tech (DuPree) Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Iowa (Tippie) Michigan State (Broad) Minnesota (Carlson) Ohio State Penn State Rice (Jones) Southern Methodist (Cox) Thunderbird Wake Forest (Babcock) Washington Wisconsin (Madison) Tier 3 American Arizona Buffalo Connecticut Florida Florida International Fordham George Washington Northeastern Pepperdine Pittsburgh Rutgers South Carolina Syracuse Tennessee at Knoxville Texas A&M Tulane William and Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
florida386 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Here http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/05072515011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9950000/9954721.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew7 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 First off, there two other sources that rank B-schools, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal http://mba.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=2002rankings http://online.wsj.com/public/page/2_1181.html?mod=home_in_depth_reports Second, USNews rankings are better than BW's. I mean, look at some lousy schools that BW places among top 50 or that it includes in its top 70 -- Thunderbird is considered Top 2 and Northeastern Tier 3 -- well, Thunderbird's average GMAT is just 600 and Northeastern's a ridiculous 537. USNews does not rank such "jewels" in its top 50 Harvard Stanford Wharton MIT (Sloan) Northwestern (Kellogg) Chicago Columbia Berkley (Haas) Dartmouth UCLA (Anderson) Duke Michigan (Ross) New York (Stern) VirginiaYale Carnegie Mellon Cornell Emory Texas North Carolina Purdue Ohio State Indiana Michigan State (Broad) Minnesota Rochester (Simon) Washington (Olin) Illinois – Urbana-Champain Southern California (Marshall) Washington Texas A&M Notre Dame Wisconsin Arizona State Brigham Young Georgetown Georgia Institute of Technology Penn State (Smeal) California–Irvine (Merage) Maryland–College Park (Smith) Boston College Southern Methodist Florida (Warrington) Boston University Rice California–Davis Georgia (Terry) Pittsburgh (Katz) Babson (Olin) Tulane (Freeman) Vanderbilt (Owen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hochfelder Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Don't sweat the rankings, it's not worth it! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soi Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 No matter how much applicants may sweat 'em, hoch, it is primarily the schools that are really obsessed with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsp Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 LOL soi! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvin Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 First off, there two other sources that rank B-schools, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal http://mba.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=2002rankings You've got to love Economist's choice for the top school :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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