What do you mean by top 50 business schools?

[jkllkj]

From what I gathered from the posts, PhDs from top 50s are fine. My question is, what do you mean by top 50? Do you look at the MBA rankings? At least for accounting, the MBA rankings of schools could have nothing to do with the ranking of the PhD rankings.

[UofACats190]

For PhD's, there really aren't a lot of rankings out there.

The University of Texas - Dallas does one based on research productivity in top research journals.

You can also refer to the department rankings in US News, but again that doesn't necessarily portray the strength of thier PhD.

Public Accounting Report does an Accounting PhD ranking, it is a peer reveiw, so it is obviously not perfect by any means.

If you are looking at top accounting programs you should consider
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Illinois
Stanford University
MIT
University of Texas
University of North Carolina (especially for a tax focus)
University of Washington (especially for a tax focus)
University of Arizona (if you get under Dan Dhaliwal)
Michigan State
Cal
Southern Cal
UCLA

Those are all top programs, their are tons of other really strong ones as well.

I'm sorry if I left top programs off of the list I gave, I was just going off of the top of my head, I didn't mean to leave off anyone on purpose.

[darth]

Studies ranking the research productivity levels of various schools are easily found and are probably more appropriate than a school's MBA ranking, imho. (Try google scholar using keywords like: accounting faculty research productivity rankings.)

Methodologies differ, but they usually center around the question of who's published the most in a specific discipline over a specific time frame. Sometimes you see some surprising names (both included and omitted).

Some measure productivity per faculty member (Kansas ranks exceptionally high here) while others measure the number of published articles period (Georgia State ranks fairly high here). Some look at only the most prestigious journals while others look at every accounting journal under the sun. Some are global studies, many weight articles (if there are 4 authors, your school gets .25 credit), some studies focus on how influential articles were (citations), etc.

Here are a couple interesting links:

Chronicle Facts & Figures: Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index

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[shootermcgavin7]

Originally Posted by darth

(Georgia State ranks fairly high here).

My guess is that this is in large part due to Larry Brown's influence on the Accounting field.

[grkevin]

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