Top 10 B School Rankings
(Senior Monkey, 88
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on 9/17/06 at 7:29pm
Let's rank the top 10 business schools (with an IB/Private Equity focus + Prestige on the Street - not necessarily based on US News and the World rankings)
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Wharton
4. MIT
5. Chicago
6. Columbia
7. Northwestern
8. Tuck
9. Stern
10. Michigan
What do you think?





harv, stan, whar are a
harv, stan, whar are a tie
mit,chic,col are a tie for 2nd
nw,tuck are tie 3
corn, yale are tie 4
Dan, I hate to bash your
Dan, I hate to bash your alma mater, but Yale b-school is not the #9 MBA program in the nation.
As far as the OP: Pretty good list, the important thing is that you realize most published MBA rankings are a fucking joke.
It looks like you got the top 10 right, and I'm not gonna quarrel what order any of them should be in (HWS, though, are always in the top 3). Other decent/okay b-schools are Haas, UCLA, Darden, Cornell.
Like Zala said "rankings are
Like Zala said "rankings are a fucking joke."
I could find you schools that are not even well ranked (by USNEWS) like Washington U, Georgetown U, Vanderbilt U, Emory U, and Notre Dame that put a lot of people into the IB/Consulting stage.
STern should be in top 5
STern should be in top 5 given the number of offers its graduating class gets - esp in BBs
HBS & Stanford GSB will
HBS & Stanford GSB will present you with opportunites that no other school can. That being said, Wharton is a popular third. You can't go wrong with any of those other top few, but after that, you're wasting your time. You're kidding yourself if you believe a Wash U or Georgetown MBA is going to stack up to the others in terms of the opportunities.
What about schools in EU?
Outside of US;
London Business School and INSEAD are also considerd quite good. Aren't they?
Re: Top 10 B School Rankings
I think you'll find the Wall Street Journal rankings quite surprising:
2005
sea_ennui: this is exactly
sea_ennui: this is exactly what i was talking about. most published MBA rankings, especially the WSJ's, are shit.
Re: sea_ennui: this is exactly
sea_ennui: this is exactly what i was talking about. most published MBA rankings, especially the WSJ's, are shit.
Which ranking do you think is the most accurate? Most people seem to think US News.
Re: sea_ennui: this is exactly
Which ranking do you think is the most accurate? Most people seem to think US News.
I don't want to quibble over who belongs exactly in which spot, but it looks like they got the top 3 right and they diddn't put anyone in the top 10 that doesn't belong there. THat's more than a lot of the other dumbass magazines can say.
WSJ rankings suck
I think WSJ's rankings suck.
Harvard should definately be among the top 5. Whereas, they didn't even put it in top 10.
Does anyone know whether or
Does anyone know whether or not a MSc in Accounting and Finance from LSE would hold as much clout as some of the big name MBA's?
probably
probably not...aren't MSc 1 year programs?
sea_ennui didn't even post
sea_ennui didn't even post the latest rankings. They aren't much different but,
2006 Rank 2005 Rank Business School
1 2 University of Michigan (Ross)
2 1 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
3 3 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
4 8 Columbia University
5 7 University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
6 4 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
7 6 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
8 9 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
9 5 Yale University
10 12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
11 13 University of Chicago
12 17 Duke University (Fuqua)
13 11 University of Virginia (Darden)
14 14 Harvard University
15 10 University of Southern California (Marshall)
16 18 Cornell University (S.C. Johnson)
17 16 New York University (Stern)
18 15 Stanford University
19 19 University of California, Los Angeles
what about canadian?
How do recruiters see Canadian schools like Rotman (Toronto), Ivy (Western), Schulich (York), Queens, UBC and McGill?
look at the FT Rankings
Re: look at the FT Rankings
Yeah, FT rankings look
Yeah, FT rankings look
as long as...
I thought Anderson (UCLA)
Stanford
Well just because recruiters
Isn't Yale very non-profit
Corp Finance is on the radar
Fit
Are there any notable
Duke, Georgetown, Berkeley Stanford, UCLA, UVA, UT
8 schools were part of the
Tepper review, in-depth?
Cdn Schools
You can't label one school
Cornell?
FT rankings
cornell
Don't go to business school
picking the right bschool is
WSJ rankings are often done
Metals & Mining I-Banker
its all
Doesn't matter about
What about MIT sloan?
Re: its all
I've been surprised at how