Another Take on Target Schools: Representation at America's Elite B-Schools
People discuss target schools and rankings all the time but usually people just toss out anecdotes with no facts to back up their statements. One way to gauge how strong of a target school a certain college is to see how many alums end up at elite business schools (M7) since it goes to follow that in order to get admitted into an elite MBA program you need to have a prestigious job and in order to land that prestigious job, you need to go to a highly regarded school.
So, without further a due, here at the top feeder colleges to the M7 minus MIT and Kellogg plus Tuck.
http://poetsandquants.com/2011/10/06/top-feeder-co...
http://poetsandquants.com/2012/05/30/top-feeder-co...
http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/15/top-feeder-co...
http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/07/top-feeder-sc...
http://poetsandquants.com/2011/09/14/top-feeder-co...
http://poetsandquants.com/2011/09/07/top-feeder-sc...
TOTAL ESTIMATED (Harvard+Wharton+Stanford+Columbia+Chicago Booth+Dartmouth Tuck)
Harvard: 192
University of Pennsylvania: 183
Stanford: 117
Yale: 113
Princeton: 101
Duke: 95
Columbia: 89
Berkeley: 84
Dartmouth: 80
Georgetown: 79
Northwestern: 67
Cornell: 59
UVA: 58
MIT: 54
Michigan: 49
Brown: 47
New York University: 42
UCLA: 41
University of Southern California: 25
University of Texas-Austin: 24
Williams College: 24
Washington University in St. Louis: 17
University of Chicago: 12
Middlebury: 11
Georgia Tech: 10
CMU: 9
Illinois: 9
Vanderbilt: 9
Tufts: 8
Boston University: 7
Maryland: 7
Bowdoin: 6
Johns Hopkins: 6
Notre Dame: 6
Penn State: 6
Purdue: 6
Amherst: 5
Boston College: 5
Colby College: 5
Bates: 4
BYU: 3
Haverford: 3
UNC: 3






Pretty good list. I think
Pretty good list. I think this can shed some light on the whole "I go to a semi target that you've never heard of, what are my chances?" questions.
I am surprised how poorly UK
I am surprised how poorly UK schools and Canadian schools are represented and how many students from the ITTs are representedé
let the cock measuring
let the cock measuring contest begin!!!
I don't understand how you
I don't understand how you aggregated the numbers because some don't add up.
This list means nothing.
This list means nothing. According to your list BYU has 3, but according to the HBS list there are 8 BYU graduates with HBS class of 2013 on Facebook.
Furthermore for larger MBA programs being school #26 still means 8-10 students, which is significant enough to double the number of students for a lot of the lower ranked schools.
hot1590: I don't understand
I don't understand how you aggregated the numbers because some don't add up.
This. Your numbers don't add up. And you left some schools off entirely.
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Bates!
Bates!
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I actually got interested in
I actually got interested in this and added the numbers again. Turns out that he was right up until UCLA. Here is the list.
harvard 192
Upenn 183
Stanford 117
Yale 113
Princeton 101
duke 95
Columbia 89
Berkeley 84
dartmouth 80
Georgetown 79
Northwestern 67
Cornell 59
Indian Institute of Tech 58
Univ of Virginia 58
Brown 54
MIT 54
Univ of Michigan 49
NYU 42
UCLA 41
Univ of Texas-Austin 40
West Point 29
USC 25
Boston 24
Williams 24
BYU 23
Univ of Illinois 22
Washington 17
Carnegie Mellon 14
Notre Dame 13
National Univ. of Singapore 13
Univ of Chicago 12
Cambridge 12
Middlebury 11
LSE 11
Yonsei Univ 10
Seoul National Univ 10
Univ of Wisconsin 10
GIT 10
Vanderbilt 9
Oxford 9
Tufts 8
Univ of Western Ontario 8
McGill 7
Univ of Maryland 7
fudan univ. 6
bowdoin 6
Johns Hopkins 6
Univ of Georgia 6
Wellesley 6
Amherst 6
Penn State 6
Purdue 6
Colby College 5
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. 5
Ohio State 5
Bates 4
New Economic School 4
Peking 4
UNC 4
haverford 3
Rice 3
Univ. of New South Wales 3
Williams does pretty damn
Williams does pretty damn well, considering its overall size.
The only correction I would
The only correction I would add is that Michigan has 49 but other than that, good job! Dartmouth does especially well given the fact that it only has 1100-1200 undergraduates each year.
I changed michigan. I also
I changed michigan. I also wanted to add the class size of 2008 and find the % but it would've been too much work.
yeah, dartmouth does well
yeah, dartmouth does well until you realize ~100/class will go to top banks/consulting firms and reputed buyside shops and like 5+% of Tuck is Dartmouth alums.
Powa23: I am surprised how
I am surprised how poorly UK schools and Canadian schools are represented and how many students from the ITTs are representedé
It is not the logical career path for people from the UK to take a MBA in the US for 3 reasons:
1. You dont need it (as much) to progress in your career - unless you move to the US
2. It takes longer and is more expensive than top MBAs in Europe
3. You don't benefit from the network as much if you do not plan to stay in the US
atleastimnotabanker: Powa23
I am surprised how poorly UK schools and Canadian schools are represented and how many students from the ITTs are representedé
It is not the logical career path for people from the UK to take a MBA in the US for 3 reasons:
1. You dont need it (as much) to progress in your career - unless you move to the US
2. It takes longer and is more expensive than top MBAs in Europe
3. You don't benefit from the network as much if you do not plan to stay in the US
Same goes for Canadian candidates, and probably anyone else in Europe, Australia, NZ, etc.
No surprise here. Harvard,
No surprise here. Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Duke, Princeton, Stanford = elite of the elite.
Illinois: 9
University of Chicago: 12
problem, illini? :p
seedy, I would add Dartmouth
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This list is almost dead on
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why is my school not listed
There is already a book on you. That book is already being written. And if I talked to your friends, your teachers, your professionals, your family, I would know so much about you I wouldn't even have to meet you. You write the book the way you want to be
What a surprise my school is