BusinessWeek 2008 Rankings Are Out!

BusinessWeek released its much awaited biannual, full-time MBA rankings. The rankings showed slight movement: Columbia went from #10 in 06 to #7 in 08. Wharton went from #2 to #4. Kelley climbed from #18 to #15.

Frankly, don't pay too much attention to the absolute ranking or even slight movement. Take advantage of BW's rich, informative database and fantastic resources for applicants. Then choose what's important to you and do your own ranking.

Top 30 U.S. Programs

1. University of Chicago
   
2. Harvard University
   
3. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
   
4. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
   
5. University of Michigan (Ross)
   
6. Stanford University
   
7. Columbia University
   
8. Duke University (Fuqua)
   
9. MIT (Sloan)
   
10. UC Berkeley (Haas)
    
11. Cornell University (Johnson)
    
12. Dartmouth (Tuck)
    
13. NYU (Stern)
    
14. UCLA (Anderson)
    
15. Indiana University (Kelley)
    
16. University of Virginia (Darden)
    
17. UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
    
18. Southern Methodist (Cox)
    
19. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
    
20. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
    
21. Texas - Austin
    
22. Brigham Young (Marriott)
    
23. Emory University (Goizueta)
    
24. Yale University
    
25. University of Southern California (Marshall)
    
26. University of Maryland (Smith)
    
27. University of Washington (Foster)
    
28. Washington University (Olin)
    
29. Georgia Tech
    
30. Vanderbilt University (Owen)
    

Top 10 Non-U.S. MBA Programs 

1. Queens University
   
2. IE Business School
   
3. INSEAD
   
4. Western Ontario (Ivey)
   
5. London Business School
   
6. ESADE
   
7. IMD
   
8. Toronto (Rotman)
   
9. IESE
   
10. Oxford (Saîd)
    

BW bases its rankings on employer and student surveys as well as school research output or "intellectual captial." This year for the first time, in a nod to the economic crisis, it is also including a ranking based on ROI  and years to recoup the MBA investment. Not surprisingly, European schools, which tend to be one-year programs, are at the top of the chart. More surprising: HBS ranks 50 out of 50 in this chart. I guess assumptions matter.

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NoeL

ISB: Practising what it preaches

The pitch is unique. “we have scripted our version of a T20 victory,” is how Ajit Rangnekar, Deputy Dean, Indian School of Business (ISB), broke to students the news of the young B-School making it to the Financial Times list of Top 20 B-Schools in the world late in January this year. Later, reflecting on the impact of the ranking on the school, Dean M. Rammohan Rao told Business Today: “The FT ranking has led to a lot of interest in the school.” Such publicity is particularly welcome as ISB seeks to attract more international students (it is targeting 8 per cent in its next batch, compared to 4-5 per cent at present) and more resident faculty (31 now)... 

“The challenge has been to market the school globally,” says V.K. Menon, Senior Director, Admissions, Financial Aid & Career Advancement Services, at ISB. And by the looks of it, it is already getting there. “Last year, our students were placed in 23 countries around the world,” says Menon...

To read more:- Business Today - Indian school of business: Practising what it preaches

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NoeL