Sunday, January 14, 2007

MBA Rankings

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What are they?


MBA rankings generate a lot of interest and are a subjective assessment of the quality of the school or the program offered. They are generally based on questionnaire answers and compare many different aspects of MBA programs or business schools.

For example, some criteria that are used to compile the rankings are:

  • Reputation based on the opinion and judgment of recruiters, academics and / or graduates
  • Salaries on graduation or salary increases of graduates
  • GMAT scores
  • Alumni attitudes towards the quality of the MBA program
  • Academic reputation or the rating of research

Looking at all the different criteria used can make it difficult to draw comparisons between different MBA rankings. However, there are a few major ranking surveys that draw the attention of students, business schools and employers alike and these tend to be used most often as a benchmark to compare MBA schools.

The rankings can also prove useful in researching other aspects such as:

  • Academic reputation of MBA program, as judged by academics and recruiters. For example, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Top Business Schools 2006 offers a recruiter's perspective of the ranking of business schools
  • MBA program acceptance rate, average GMAT score, tuition fees and number of places available
  • What the student profile is and also how international the program is
  • Top companies recruiting from that business school and employment rates following graduation.

However, bear in mind that many of the business schools do not agree with the methodologies used, even some of the schools that appear top of the ratings. So, to summarize:

MBA rankings: Where can you find them?
For more details of the different MBA rankings surveys, please click on the link below to visit the appropriate website, which will open up a new window:


Remember that business school ranking is only one factor in your overall decision and the best determinant of whether the business school can be considered to be a top MBA school for you is how it will help you to achieve your goals.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

TOP 50 US B Schools for UG, MBA and PhD Programs

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Top US B-Schools, Best Business Schools (1 - 10)

Stanford University (CA)
Stanford Graduate School of Business offers an MBA Program that is a two-year, full-time residential program, focusing on the academic facets of general business management. A PhD Program and the Stanford Sloan Program, a ten-month general management program for mid-career executives, leading to a master of science in management. MBA | PhD


Harvard Business School (MA)
Harvard Business School offers a two year MBA Program. You can apply Online to this program. In addition, HBS also offers Doctoral Programs leading to a PhD in Management in any of the eight streams of Management. MBA | PhD


Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University (IL)
Kellogg School of Management offers full-time, part-time, executive and international executive MBA programs. Kellogg is organized into six academic departments and each area offers individual Doctoral Programs. MBA | PhD


The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Wharton offers full time Undergraduate Program in Business Management. The MBA Program offers a variety of flexible options to students to earn Dual or Joint Degrees. The School also offers Wharton Executive MBA, Wharton Technology Management Course and Executive MBA programs. The Doctoral Program in the B School leads to a PhD in about 10 disciplines ranging from Marketing to Insurance and Risk. UG | MBA | PhD


MIT Sloan (MA)
Sloan offers Full Time MBA and Executive Programs. Sloan offers a Doctoral Program leading to PhD in management and an Undergraduate Program leading to Bachelor of Science in Management. UG | MBA | PhD


Columbia Business School (NY)
Columbia Business School offers a two year Full Time MBA and admits about 500 students each year to the program. The GMAT range for admissions in Fall 2003 was 670-750. In addition, the School offers a Doctoral Program in five areas of management and also offers executive MBA options. MBA | PhD


Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Haas Business School offers a two year Full Time MBA program. In addition, the B-School also offers evening & weekend MBA programs and an executive MBA program. In addition to the masters program, the school also offers a Doctoral Program and a Undergraduate Course in business management. A special one year Masters in Financial Engineering Program is also offered by Haas School of Business. UG | MBA | PhD


The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (NC)
The Fuqua School of Business offers four types of MBA programs to suit the needs of different types of students. In addition, the B School also offers a Doctoral Program. The Ph.D. Program currently offers programs of research and training in the areas of accounting, decision sciences, finance, marketing, management, and operations management. MBA | PhD


Chicago Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
The GSB offers two full-time and three part-time M.B.A. programs, six joint degree options, and a Doctoral Program. The MBA programs include a two year Full Time MBA and an International Full Time MBA which includes work or study abroad. MBA | PhD


University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor

The School offers a two year Full Time MBA, a Masters in Accounting program in addition to part time and executive education programs. The School also offers a Doctoral Program leading to a PhD in one of the following areas - Accounting, International Business, Computer and Information Systems, Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Operations Management, Finance, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. MBA | MBA | PhD


Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (NH)
Tuck School of Business has been at the forefront of business education since 1900 as the first graduate school of management. Tuck offers only one degree program - the Full Time MBA. The School admits between 200 to 250 students each year. MBA


New York University Stern School of Business (NY)
The Stern School of Business offers Full Time MBA and Executive MBA programs. In addition, the school also offers Undergraduate Program and a Doctoral Program in Business Management. UG | MBA | PhD


The Anderson School at UCLA (CA)
The Anderson School offers a variety of MBA programs to suit different needs. The Full Time MBA Program, The Fully Employed MBA Program and the Executive MBA Program. In addition, the school also offers Doctoral Program leading to a PhD in Management. The School admits less than 8 percent of all applicants into the Doctoral Program each year. MBA | PhD


Yale School of Management (CT)
One of the leading business schools offers enrolment to about 250 students each year. In the academic year beginning Fall 2002, the range of GMAT score was 640-750 with 34% of the admissions being given to international applicants. The Doctoral Program offers specialization in Accounting, Financial Economics and Marketing. MBA | PhD


Darden Graduate School of Business Administration (VA)
Darden Graduate School at University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA offers a two-year Full Time MBA. The School also has an Executive MBA and Doctoral Program The School has authorized major fields in Finance, Management, Marketing, and Operations Management. In making its admissions decisions each year, the School may choose not to admit doctoral students to a particular field. MBA | PhD


Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (NY)
Johnson Graduate School at Cornell University offers a two year Full Time MBA, and an Executive MBA Program. The School also offers a Doctoral Program leading to a Phd in one of Accounting, Behavioral Science, Finance, Management & Organizations, Managerial Economics, Marketing, Production and Operations Management, and Quantitative Analysis for Administration. MBA | PhD


Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
The Graduate School of Industrial Administration offers a two year Full Time MBA and a Flexi Time MBA program. The B School also offers an Undergraduate Program in Business Administration and a Doctoral Program leading to a PhD in one of the following specializations - Accounting; Economics; Finance; Information Systems; Manufacturing and Operations Management; Management of Manufacturing and Automation; Marketing; Operations Research; Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO); and Organizational Behavior and Theory. UG | MBA | PhD


Kenan Flagler Business School, Univ of N Carolina, Chapel Hill
The B School offers a two year Full Time MBA program and a Master of Accounting program. The B School also offers an Undergraduate Program in Business Administration and a Doctoral Program in Business with specialization in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Technology and Innovation Management, Organizational Behavior, and Strategy. UG | MBA | PhD


McCombs School of Business, Univ of Texas, Austin (TX) The B School offers a two year Full Time MBA, Executive MBA and a Doctoral Program leading to a PhD with specialization in one of the following disciplines - Accounting, Finance, Management, Management Science & Information Systems, and Marketing. MBA | PhD


Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
The B School offers a two year Full Time MBA, a Part Time MBA and an Online MBA. The School also offers an Undergraduate Program and a Doctoral Program. UG | MBA | PhD


University of Southern California (Marshall)
The Marshall School of Business offers a variety of Undergraduate, Graduate, and a doctoral progragmme with research in the areas of Accouting, Finance and Business Economics, Information and Operations Management, Management and Organization, and Marketing. The Marshall School ranks 11th overall for its undergraduate business programs with all undergraduate academic programs ranked in the top 20. The Leventhal School of Accounting has ranked among the top five undergraduate accounting programs in the country. UG | MBA | PhD


Georgetown University (McDonough)(DC)
The Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University offers both an Undergraduate and an MBA program. The International Executive MBA, IEMBA program is ranked amongst the top 15 in the world. UG | MBA


Emory University (Goizueta)(GA)
The Goizueta Business School at the Emory University offers degree programs at Undergraduate level, graduate level and a doctoral program in management. You can apply online to the b school by visiting this page. UG | MBA | PhD


Ohio State University (Fisher)
The Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University is ranked amongst the top 15 for its undergraduate program and amongst the top 25 for its MBA program. The college also offers doctoral program. The college offers doctoral programs in 3 broad areas. UG | MBA | PhD


Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert)(IN)
The Krannert School of Management and Graduate School of Management at the Purdue University offers Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctoral programs in Management. The school offers Bachelors' program in Accounting, Economics, Industrial Management and Management. The School offers four Master's programs in Management. UG | MBA | PhD


University of Rochester (Simon)(NY)
The Simon School at the University of Rochester offers a Full Time MBA, a Part Time MBA, few Masters programs in Management and a Doctoral program in Management. The School also offers few specialized degree programs and many non-degree programs in Management. MS | MBA | PhD


Vanderbilt University (Owen)(TN)
The Owen Graduate School of Management at the Vanderbilt University is a small school dedicated to post baccalaureate education in Management. The School offers an MBA program and a Doctoral Program. Including its Executive MBA program, the school admits about 540 students. MBA | PhD


Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
The Olin School of Business at the Washington University in St.Louis offers a BS in Business Administration, a Full Time MBA and a Doctoral program in Management. BSBA | MBA | PhD


University of Maryland–College Park (Smith)
The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park offers a undergraduate business program, a full time MBA, joint MBA/MS Masters programs and a Doctoral program in Management.
UG | MBA | MBA/MS | PhD


Michigan State University (Broad)
The Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University offers an Undergraduate program in management, a full time MBA program and various Masters program in Management. In addition, the college also offers Doctoral programs in five main areas of management research. UG | MBA | Masters | PhD


University of Arizona (Eller)
The Eller Graduate School of Management, University of Arizona offers a full time MBA program. You can apply online to the program. MBA


University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
The Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota offers an Undergraduate program in Management and is ranked amongst the top 15 in the country. The School also offers a full time MBA in addition to various Masters programs. The School also offers Doctoral programs in Business Administration and Ph.D in HRIR. UG | MBA | Ph.D


W P Carey Business School, Arizona State University – Main Campus
W P Carey Business School offers a Full Time MBA and many Part Time and Online MBA courses. The Schools offers a full fledge Doctoral Program in management. The School also has an Undergraduate program in management that is ranked amongst the top 25 in the country. UG | MBA | Ph.D


Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame (IN)
The Mendoza College of Business, Indiana offers an Undergraduate Program in management in the fields of accounting, finance, marketing, and management information system. At the graduation level, the College offers a Two Year Full Time MBA program and few Masters programs in Management. UG | MBA


DuPree College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
The DuPree College of Management offers an Undergraduate program in Management leading to a BSM. The MBA program offered by the College is a two year full time program that admits students in the Fall term. DuPree's Doctoral Program is in the functional areas of finance, information technology, marketing, operations management, or organizational behavior. UG | MBA | Ph.D


Smeal College of Business, Penn State University–University Park
The College offers an Undergraduate Program in Management with an intake of around 5000 students offering 21 degrees. At the graduation level, the college admits about 100 students for its Full Time Two Year MBA. The college also offers a Masters program in the fields of accounting and supply chain and information systems. The Smeal Ph.D. Program offers the following fields of study: accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, real estate, and supply chain and information systems. UG | MBA | Ph.D & Masters


Jesse H. Jones GSM, Rice University (TX)
The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University offers a Full Time Two Year MBA. The school also offers an executive MBA program that is ranked amongst the top 10 in the Southwest of the country. MBA | EMBA


Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University (TX)
The Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University offers an Undergraduate program that leads to BBA degree. At the graduate level the School offers a Full Time MBA and a Master of Science in Accounting. BBA | MBA | MSA


Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
The Henry B. Tippie College of Business offers a full fledged Undergraduate program in Business. At the graduation level, the College offers a Two Year Full Time MBA program. The college also has a full fledged Doctoral Program in the following areas: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management & Organization, Management Sciences, and Marketing. UG | MBA


Madison School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Madison School of Business offers a Full fledged Undergraduate program in management that is ranked amongst the top 15 in the country. Students can choose to major from among the 10 majors offered by the School. The graduate school offers a Full Time MBA and a Doctoral Program in management. UG | MBA | Ph.D

Boston College (Carroll)

University of California, Davis

University of Washington

Brigham Young University (Marriott) (UT)

Texas A&M University–College Station (Mays)

Tulane University (Freeman) (LA)

University of California, Irvine

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Wake Forest University (Babcock) (NC)

Babson College (Olin) (MA)

University of Florida (Warrington)

University of Georgia (Terry)

University of Pittsburgh (Katz)