NEW US NEWS RANKINGS OMGOMG

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools…

#1 Harvard University
Boston, MA

#1 Stanford University
Stanford, CA

#3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Philadelphia, PA

#4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
Cambridge, MA

#4 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
Evanston, IL

#6 University of Chicago (Booth)
Chicago, IL

#7 University of California​‒​Berkeley (Haas)
Berkeley, CA

#8 Columbia University
New York, NY

#9 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
Hanover, NH

#10 New York University (Stern)
New York, NY

#11 Duke University (Fuqua)
Durham, NC
$52,900 per year (full-time) 874

#13 Yale University

#14 University of California​‒​Los Angeles (Anderson)

#14 University of Michigan​‒​Ann Arbor (Ross)
Ann Arbor, MI

#16 Cornell University (Johnson)
Ithaca, NY

#17 University of Texas​‒​Austin (McCombs)
Austin, TX

#18 Emory University (Goizueta)
Atlanta, GA

#19 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
Pittsburgh, PA

#20 University of North Carolina​‒​Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
Chapel Hill, NC

#21 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
St. Louis, MO

#22 Indiana University​‒​Bloomington (Kelley)
Bloomington, IN

#23 University of Minnesota​‒​Twin Cities (Carlson)
Minneapolis, MN

#23 University of Washington (Foster)
Seattle, WA

#25 Georgetown University (McDonough)
Washington, DC

They changed the methodology this year slightly... noticeable jumps from the cali/tech schools a bit since more people hounding for entrepreneurship/tech?

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CBS is really letting me down -__-

"They are all former investment bankers that were laid off in the economic collapse that Nancy Pelosi caused. They have no marketable skills, but by God they work hard."
 
TheGrind
shorttheworldwhy so

No Darden? Minnesota Twin Cities over Darden?

Never mind....I see that Darden was omitted by accident

Also i forgot that it was the US list. I was wondering where the heck Insead and IESE were

 

I'd probably attend both Fuqua and YSOM over Stern, and I think Tuck should switch places with Haas. Other than that, this is just more of the same old, same old.

 

Not everyone wants to do finance. The top 3 are pretty much fixed, but then it depends what you want to do post MBA. Haas and Sloan are great for tech/VC, and Kellogg is arguably the best for marketing.

For us, Booth, Tuck and CBS get pushed up (hell, their value investing program is one of the few reasons I would consider a MBA), while Kellogg, Sloan and Haas get nudged down. So maybe 4-7 for finance would be: Booth, CBS, Sloan, Kellogg, followed up by Tuck and Haas.

 

Missed one, UVA Darden is #12. I got worried that they somehow fell out of the top 25!

"My caddie's chauffeur informs me that a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested."
 
mikesswimnMissed one, UVA Darden is #12. I got worried that they somehow fell out of the top 25!

I noticed this as well

 
FrankD'anconiaHow often do these things come out anyway? I can just imagine MBA grads sitting around waiting for this release like some sort of earnings report.

Each publication puts out its own list each year (after slightly changing its methodology from the year before to ensure the rankings aren't always exactly the same).

 
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FrankD'anconiaHow often do these things come out anyway? I can just imagine MBA grads sitting around waiting for this release like some sort of earnings report.

You'd be surprised to learn how little people care about the rankings once they're in school or graduated.

More than you'd think. Deans from schools dropping will be sending emails soon clarifying the situation and providing an action plan to current students haha.
 
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FrankD'anconiaHow often do these things come out anyway? I can just imagine MBA grads sitting around waiting for this release like some sort of earnings report.

You'd be surprised to learn how little people care about the rankings once they're in school or graduated.

More than you'd think. Deans from schools dropping will be sending emails soon clarifying the situation and providing an action plan to current students haha.

at my school (MIT) no student mentioned the new rankings or that they were published or anything like that... we received the weekly MBA email and it was mentioned in it that they published the new rankings, but no one commented them.

I think the top 6 are sort of fixed in this ranking. H/S will always fight for the number one position. Wharton will remain most of the years number 3 (i think two years ago it shared that position with MIT), MIT, Kellog and Chicago will fight to be in the "top 5". As for the rest of the schools, i don't see them getting into the Top 5. For that to happen, one of the top 5 will have to drop. The only school that I would suspect could drop is Kellogg (I somehow feel they are losing momentum, but then again, Haas, CBS and Tuck don't have any momentum going on either, so I guess nothing will happen)

 

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