Tag Archive | "us news"
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 [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
The US News just released its 2009 Grad School Rankings. I’m going to list the top ten for business school, law school, and medical school (research) and provide links to the ranking methodology for each category. For other graduate specialties, please visit the US News site.
Business School Rankings and methodology
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Northwestern Kellogg
3. Wharton
5. [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, Interviews, MBA
How should you use the rankings? For initial research and data mining. And maybe a little reputation checking if you are lucky enough to receive multiple acceptances.
First for that initial research: Let’s say you are looking into the schools you will apply to. You recognize that your academic qualifications are an important element in that [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The rankings are not…
The rankings are not objective measures of educational quality that apply across the board to all students. Nothing fits that bill. Educational quality is highly subjective, and experts debate it endlessly. Moreover, student objectives vary so “quality” differs from student to student.
For example, a female student interested in strategy consulting wants to [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
US News is publishing its much-watched, much-maligned annual ranking of graduate programs by April 23. I have developed several posts on rankings, what they are, what they aren’t, and how to use them. I will post them over the next several days.
Ahh, those rankings. Hated by some. Relied on with religious zeal by others. Should [...]
Career, MBA
Wharton, Columbia and NYU Stern (full fellowship) – which one is the best? Read more.
New grad school rankings from US News are yet to be released. Read a discussion.
