Just a comment. The UTD publication ranking seems to consider the absolute number of publication. If the number of faculties or the size of the school turns out small, it seems to disregard the scaling according to the size of the faculty or the school.
Your overall commment is very good except one trivial thing that it seems like the types of eight journals used in the Texas A&M ranking are somehow deviated from the useful benchmark for comparison..
Hi. I know it's kind of late to post but I got accepted from cranfield school of management in UK for finance phd this year.
The admission cycle seemed somehow late compared to the US schools and the school starts this October as well.
I found out that this site is cool and I am keeping on eye on this site quite frequently.