Great Concept Praet.It will be very helpful to everyone of us.
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Is this the proper forum to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of different ranking systems?

Hjort

First, let me commend Praet's initiative here..it was long time coming.

There are a few suggestions I would like to make here:

1) Profile of Top-30 Schools: A realistic profile that is different from Business Week's and US News'...what I mean to say is there shud be not too much emphasis on numbers.

2) One student from each college should provide his/her inputs about the school...why he/she chose the school..what are the advantages and disadvantages of attending that school. ( I dont know how realsitic it can be to get a student from each college. I guess we can leave out the top 5 colleges cos their info is floating everywhere)

3) GC members who are apping this year can be active on the respective school threads and share their essay experiences/queries, interview experiences and any other problem they run into.

I'm just throwing the ideas in air...I know its not easy to implement all the
suggestions but just wanted to put it out there.

Also, I would like to take this oppurtunity to thank Hjort for his innumerable & profound contributions to this site. I am an active BW forum member and know quite a few people who dole out advices on the BW forum..and comparitively I must say that Hjort's advices are always grounded in reality and well backed up by data.Your inputs are most appreicated and would love to see you continue the good work.

Hjort, you always categorise schools in Ultra-Elite, Elite, Near Elite etc categories..do you mind creating a list of schools falling under these categories and publish it.

Sincerely,
Vivek.
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Praet,
Just listing some of the schools I think shud be profiled...
I have deliberately not included the high-flyers as info regarding their programs can easily be obtained.I feel we are better off concentrating on non-top 10 schools. If need be, we can include them later.

US Colleges:

1) Cornell.
2) NYU
3) UCLA
4) Yale
5) Carnegie Mellon
6) UNC Chappel Hill
7) UC Berkeley
8) Indiana
9) UTA-McCombs
10) Emory
11) Ohio State Univ
12) Purdue
13) Univ of Minnesota – Twin Cities
14) Georgetown
15) UMD-Smith
16) USC- Marshall
17) Babson

Non-US Colleges:
1) Queen’s
2) HEC-Paris
3) Manchester Business School
4) Oxford (Said)
5) Australia Graduate School of Management
6) NUS – National University of Singapore
7) ISB – Indian School of Business

Hope this helps.

-Vivek.
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Hjort

As time goes by, i hope more people will join the discussion. I want to ask Linda too to see if she can pitch in with some ideas.

Till then, we all look forward to learning from you.

thanks again.
Praetorian

Hello HJort,

Can you please tell us which schools will be good for IT consulting (in all Catagories --Ultra Elite , Elite .......)


Thanks
scjp

I know this information is very valuable to all of us, but I think this information is readily available on most university websites. Please spare a few hours and I assure you would get the information much much faster. All it takes is a google search and a few phone calls or emails to the admissions office and the career centers etc.

Thanks
Praetorian

I would like to find a way of organizing information on MS Finance, MS Accounting, and MBA "Substitutes" in some coherent fashion. Would it be better to consolidate them into one discussion or separate them by field such as finance, accounting, and other?

I think that it would be a good idea to keep the MSF, MS Acc, and MS "Other" together but in a separate forum.

Hjort

Praetorian,

Thanks for doing this - it looks good to me.

Hjort