Bloomberg publishes 2018 MBA rankings - thoughts?
Here are the rankings
- Stanford
- Wharton
- Harvard
- Sloan
- Booth
- Haas
- Columbia
- Kellogg
- Darden
- Johnson
Link to full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/2018/
What do you think?
For me, no major surprises. Johnson got a nice bump, but that's probably due to their super impressive IB program. Booth feels like it could be higher, but you could swap out anything in the top 5 for #1 and people would be shocked the other 4 didn't get first place.
Haas surprised me, also surprised Wharton overtook Harvard and Columbia is behind Sloan and Booth. but hey whadoo i know
The real gem of the ranking is in the median compensation in different industries by school. This does a good job of quantifying the narrative that the good jobs go to people in a certain group of schools. So as long as you get into one of these schools you'll be fine. This essentially boils down to people in the top 20 schools get good jobs. There are a few exceptions to this, which is great for people to know that don't get into top 20 schools.
no Stern or Anderson? surprising.
how do you guys feel about Bloomberg Rankings? thing is a lot of alums from school work at Bloomberg, and in return my school is ranked pretty high--Top 30 in Bloomberg Best Undergrad B-Schools...yet my school is still a semi/non target... I think that these rankings are bs and don't really mean much
No Tuck??
For an MBA in finance, I would rank the schools in the following order
Harvard is a very, very good finance school. But it is not the greatest finance school. Don't buy the brand.
It deserves to be top 10. But #1? That's why you're getting MS'd.
I'm no true man of finance but what do you mean by this? What finance opportunities are available to another business school that aren't available to an HBS grad? I'm not trying to argue I'm just curious.
From what I know, there are less guaranteed spots for Harvard students vs Wharton students. Once again, HBS is very good. But when banks are creating "held spots" on a per school basis, I've never met a bank that has more spots open for HBS students than Wharton students. General perception is that HBS is turning more towards tech while Wharton maintains a strong finance focus.
That being said, if you get into HBS, you'll have no problem getting a first round at any bank of your choosing. But I wouldn't be surprised if more of your intern class were Wharton, Columbia, Booth... or hell, even Johnson students.
lol, so Stanford, which has the lowest acceptance rates of all the MBA programs ... can't even crack top 5?
rofl
Solid ranking. Not that I or anyone would believe HBS is #3 overall. Discounting that, the top 5 ranks are in-line with my thinking of the top 5 schools. The data and charts they show is pretty helpful to get a sense of what's going on.
Howard is ranked #33 with an average GMAT score of 460?
Ranked #7 in networking somehow also?
Top three, old news. Harvard dominates billboards.
Garbage. Booth #1.
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