Leaked US News 2010 MBA rankings
The buzz around BW forums is that US News accidentally "leaked" the new MBA rankings in one of their videos. Contrary to some guy on BW forums taking credit, the "leak" actually occurred on the website AutoAdmit.com.
If what they say is correct, the new rankings go like this:
Current rank [Previous rank] School Name (Rating) [Previous Rating]
1 [1] Harvard (100) [100]
2 [1] Stanford (99) [100]
3 [4] Northwestern (93) [93]
3 [3] Penn (93) [95]
5 [4] MIT (92) [93]
5 [4] Chicago (92) [93]
7 [7] Berkeley (88) [89]
8 [7] Dartmouth (87) [89]
9 [9] Columbia (86) [88]
10 [13] Yale (85) [80]
11 [10] NYU (83) [84]
12 [14] Duke (82) [79]
13 [12] Michigan (81) [82]
14 [11] UCLA (80) [83]
15 [17] Carnegie Mellon (79) [77]
15 [14] UVA (79) [79]
17 [14] Cornell (76) [79]
18 [18] Texas-Austin (74) [74]
19 [22] Georgetown (73) [69]
20 [19] UNC (70) [72]
20 [21] USC (70) [70]
22 [24] Emory (69) [68]
23 [29] GaTech (68) [64]
23 [20] Indiana (68) [71]
23 [25] WUSTL (68) [66]
26 [27] Ohio State (67) [65]
26 [34] Washington (67) [61]
26 [29] Wisconsin (67) [64]
It looks like the finance-heavy schools took a couple points hit on the ratings. Wharton, Chicago Booth, and Columbia all dropped 2 points -- my theory is that employment stats took a hit at these schools. Yale and Duke jumped up a couple spots, as did Carnegie Mellon. UCLA and Cornell took a hit in the rankings this year.
Link to Video (see background at 0:55): http://usnews.feedroom.com/index.jsp?fr_story=dec2...





No one who knows anything
No one who knows anything looks at b-school rankings.
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seriously dude look at where
seriously dude look at where columbia is ranked.
I generally agree with
I generally agree with Ideating but not on this point...we live in a highly competitive society and rankings are "important"...not sure if you are involved in the bschool admissions process but rankings are very important when considering future job prospects and ROIs drop dramatically as you drop down the list
jbs - fully agree with you
jbs - fully agree with you that future job prospects and ROIs drop dramatically.
However, lists like these are confusing at best, delusionary at worst. There are a bunch of similar lists by similarly prestigious institutions and they all have different rankings.
Think of it this way - if your friend gets into Northwestern and HBS, but Northwestern is ranked higher on the list: which school would you advise your friend attend to maximize his ROI post graduation?
Put another way, these lists don't drive ROI - those factors are prestige and alumni networks that take years to develop.
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But
I generally agree with Ideating but not on this point...we live in a highly competitive society and rankings are "important"...not sure if you are involved in the bschool admissions process but rankings are very important when considering future job prospects and ROIs drop dramatically as you drop down the list
But I don't think anyone would claim that is because of the rankings. The rankings simply reflect which schools are better; the fact that they are correlated with opportunities does not mean that they cause those opportunities.
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The reason that USNews
The reason that USNews rankings are held in the highest regards (higher than BW, or the garbage rankings from FT or WSJ) is that they factor in prestige -- a significant portion of the total pts come from deans at other business schools -- as well as yield (which schools were turned down in favor of others). Wouldn't you agree that these rankings generally reflect popular opinion?
The point of my post is just to let everyone know what to expect next Thursday (I think...all speculation right now). If you don't think they're important, that's fine by me.
Meh, dropped three. Our
Meh, dropped three. Our undergrad got hit even more. Finance/accounting is our best by far so I'm sure that didn't help.
Yale's moving up! Definitely
Yale's moving up! Definitely going to apply there if I do decide to apply to b-school in September this year.
I actually quite like the USNews rankings.
Yale's moving up! Definitely
Yale's moving up! Definitely going to apply there if I do decided to apply to b-school in September this year.
I actually quite like the USNews rankings.
Fixed rankings
Just wanted to let you guys know the official rankings have Chicago and MIT tied at 5 (I previously had MIT 5 and chicago 6). Mags went on sale yesterday.
I know most ppl here don't care about the rankings, but the few who do care would probably prefer that they be accurate.
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