Tag Archive | "rankings"
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA, Other
B-schools are no longer content staying on home soil, reports the Financial Times in a supplementary article to their recent Global MBA Rankings.
The latest expansionist trend is to extend the traditional four-walled classroom overseas. Harvard Business School used to pride itself on its steadfast commitment to bring students to the school and NOT to bring [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The Financial Times published today its 2010 ranking of global MBA programs. Its ranking attempts to “assess the effect of the MBA on … subsequent career progression and salary growth.” Consequently it draws its data from the schools themselves and from surveys of graduates at least three years after earning their MBA degree. In [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
Forbes took its survey findings from “The Best Business Schools” and compiled a second rankings report: “The Most Satisfied MBAs.”
Stanford won top slot for both rankings. It is #1 for providing the best return on investment for its graduates, as well as for churning out MBAs who are extremely satisfied with their current jobs and [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, MBA
In anticipation of the Financial Times rankings’ publication, expected to be released in January, Accepted is offering you a special report, written by Linda Abraham, founder and president of Accepted.com, on the ins and outs of MBA rankings.
In this special rankings report you’ll learn:
What the published rankings are and are not.
How to use the rankings.
How [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
BusinessWeek has published its biannual rankings of EMBA programs. The top five EMBA programs are:
Kellogg
Chicago Booth
Wharton
Columbia
USC Marshall
BusinessWeek also published its part-time MBA program rankings and its rankings of executive education programs. Its methodology in all three cases focuses on “end-user satisfaction.”
The articles and videos accompanying the rankings are recommended if you are considering an EMBA or [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Interviews, MBA
The Aspen Institute published last week its biannual ranking of MBA programs, “Beyond Grey Pinstripes.” This ranking ignores admissions criteria and abandons ROI. Through surveys of 149 participating schools, it attempts to rank the programs according to their “social impact management” or addressing of social, environmental or ethical topics. The goal: “spotlight innovative full-time MBA [...]
Bschool Life, Interviews, MBA
Let’s take a look at a few developments during a busy October for MBA applicants:
The Dartmouth News published an article about the increasing percentage of women at Tuck with a couple of factoids about Harvard and Wharton. Unfortunately, there is an inaccuracy in the article regarding a non-existent experience requirement at Tuck. I checked with [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
Forbes published today its 2010 MBA rankings for US and non-US MBA programs. The Forbes ranking is based on ROI, specifically “the return on investment achieved by the graduates from the class of 2004.” Forbes surveyed 17,000 alumni at 103 schools and heard back from 24% of those grads in compiling its data.
For the US, [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
Business school deans and educational thought leaders are doing a lot of soul-searching concerning the role and culpability of graduate business schools in the economic downturn.
Dean Robert Bruner of Darden on April 5 wrote on Twitter “Controversy over the role of B-schools in the crisis. Did they warn strongly enough about the risks of toxic assets? [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
How NOT to use the rankings
Don’t give them too much importance. Don’t replace research and self-reflection with school ranking to determine where you apply or attend. Using them mindlessly could contribute to an expensive, time-consuming mistake.
Blinding yourself to the rankings’ flaws leads to poor decisions. Consider this partial list of limitations:
They don’t measure exactly what’s [...]
