Top 15 MBA Programs By Culture: 2017 Wrap-Up

Here's a tip: take P&Q with a massive fucking grain of salt. The guy who runs it sells advertising to pretty much all schools outside the Top 10 (Darden being the worst offender). He has every incentive to post rankings that put schools like Ross and UVA and IESE and Duke high on whatever bullshit metric magazine editors can come up with because then they'll spend more advertising on his website and their magazine. The only thing anyone goes there for anyway is for that asshole Sandy to tell white and indian males they have a 20% shot at Tuck.

What the hell is culture ranking anyway? According to fucking who? Some asshole without an MBA at the Economist? They HATE US schools, that's why their actual metric grades "regional diversity" so high.

I know I have a great time doing certain things that others who go to HBS or SOM or Tuck might not like. It's about fit, not ranking.

OP, stop thinking about Bschool culture, you are at least 3 years and a quarterlife crisis away.

Poets and Quants is a terrible site. "Rankings" like this are garbage.

MBA is not undergrad. The decision on which school to attend should be ruthlessly pragmatic and utilitarian.

In order of importance:

1. Go to the best school you get into.
2. Determine which school has robust OCR for the companies and industries you're interested in. Getting non-OCR jobs is a pain in the ass, and career service will not be helpful.
3. Use factors such as scholarship and location as tie-breakers if you are deciding between schools of roughly equal quality, reputation, and career placement.

Enjoy the best 2 years of your life because post-MBA life sucks monkey's balls.

"champagnepaki" Hey fellow monkeys, was browsing around and saw this.

I'm definitely considering B-School down the line (still in undergrad) but thought this is still some great information to know beforehand - and might be interesting to a lot of you considering an MBA. Berkeley and Stanford are sitting at the top, something that was surprising to me was that MIT and UCLA Anderson are at the bottom (granted, they all must have great culture since this is a TOP 15 list); i've heard a lot of great things about both schools respectively and was expecting them to be higher up.

2018 Best MBA Programs For Culture & Classmates

1. California-Berkeley (Haas) | 4.68/5
2. Stanford | 4.68/5
3. IESE | 4.67/5
4. University of Virginia (Darden) | 4.63/5
5. Harvard Business School | 4.60/5
6. Dartmouth (Tuck) | 4.57/5
7. University of Michigan (Ross) | 4.57/5
8. Duke (Fuqua) | 4.54/5
9. UCLA (Anderson) | 4.54/5
10. MIT (Sloan) | 4.53/5
11. Northwestern (Kellogg) | 4.52/5
12. HEC Paris | 4.52/5
13. INSEAD | 4.51/5
14. Columbia | 4.50/5
15. Yale SOM | 4.47/5

How these MBA programs do so well at choosing an authentic candidate: “We look for someone who is willing to challenge themselves. They take risks and support others; it’s not just me first, but all of us together can create better things. Also, we want someone who values other people and other perspectives. They work hard and drop their egos and get things done.” - Soojin Kwan, MD of Full-Time MBA Admissions at UMich Ross.

I know some people don't care about culture and have one agenda. Those of you who have done your MBA, what do you think? From what i've read, the general consensus of MBA's is that the value is in the network that you build while there. Any disagreements with this list? What was your experience during your MBA? What makes a good class vs. a bad class culture at a program like this? What was the atmosphere or competitive nature like at your MBA program?

https://poetsandquants.com/2018/03/06/mba-programs-with-the-best-cultur…</a">Source: The Economist, via Poets&Quants

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