Choose the best elite poll

I say yale.

I think Fuqua is a good up and comer as well. It has a relatively young program, excellent undergrad reputation, good med and law school. It's one of the more globally focused elite programs, with in roads in Asia. With the economic power slowly shifting eastward, I think Fuqua had great potential.

i think all of these programs are great, that's why they are all elite . im curious to see a breakdown of personal preference though.

I voted for Tuck but could easily make a good argument for Haas in that list as well. The one I'm most excited for (Darden) has yet to receive a vote but just being mentioned with the rest of those schools is good enough for me. Plus the school itself (campus, community) and the case method are enough to make me choose it over the rest

I know, crazy, I want to go to school in a smaller college town and be subjected to hours upon hours of case preparation. I promise I don't cut myself at night

...also applying to Fuqua and Ross from that last so also have a soft spot for them.

Haas
Tuck
Stern = Ross
Yale
Fuqua
UCLA

it's obviously either haas or tuck. however, these are two very different schools...

Personal Preference:
Stanford (ultra-elite)
Haas = Yale
Fuqua
McCombs (trans-elite)

All great schools but I kind of think all of them have specialties (at the top end of this poll), with the exception of tuck (that’s why I picked them).

Haas - Tech
NYU-Finance
Ross- Consulting
Yale-Nonprofit

I just see tuck as being the most well rounded for any type of focus, and it helps that it’s got the ivy name and strong tight knit alumni base.

Just my thoughts.

I did a compilation of MBA ranking using the following sources:
US News ranking from 2000-2009 (35%)
Business Week ranking from 2000-2008 (15%)
FT ranking from 2005-2010 (15%)
Salary ranking based on US News 1st year, FT 3rd year, and Forbes 5th year (15%)
Forbes ranking 2009 (10%)
University Prestige ranking (US News & Time-QS weighted) (7.5%)
Economist ranking 2009 (2.5%)

And the rank order that emerges is interesting:
Dartmouth- 8 (very close to Kellogg/Chicago/Columbia/MIT)
UC Berkeley- 10
Duke/Michigan/NYU/Yale- 12
Cornell/Virginia/UCLA- 14
The next school is 18 (Carnegie Mellon)

any reason why you chose to assign those particular weights to those rankings? if we reassigned the weights, would it be reasonable to assume that the compiled rankings will change?

The weighting I chose was subjective (because US News provides a more widely used and followed rank, I assigned 1/3 of rating); then I tried to give FT, BW, Salary, the same weight while leaving a bit room for Forbes, University Prestige, and Economist (least credible). In addition, I've also weighted the recent ranking heavier than older rank. During the process, I didn't play the weighting to derive the results I personally like, but I can't rule out any sub-conscious influence and agree the ranking IS SUBJECTIVE.

To be more objective, If I simply average US News 2000-2009, BW 2000-2008, and FT 2005-2010 with no weighting in any year and take a simple average of the three main ranking after assigning absolute rank (e.g. The raw 10 year average of US News rank is 1.3 for HBS and 1.8 for Stanford, but the absolute ranking will be 1 and 2, respectively), below is what it looks like for the top 16 (17 as reference to show the gap between 16 and next tier):

2 U Penn
2 Harvard
4 Stanford
5 Chicago
5 Northwestern
6 Columbia
6 MIT
9 U of Michigan
9 Dartmouth
10 Duke
11 NYU
11 UC Berkeley
14 U of Virginia
14 UCLA
14 Yale
14 Cornell
17 Carnegie Mellon

I personally don't like the detailed ranking, but it does cluster the ultra elite (2-6) and elite (9-14) very well.

If forced to choose, I would probably go with Tuck. As usual, of course, it really depends on one's goals. Tuck does benefit from a strong alumni base and good connections to NYC.

This is totally off topic, but Hjort is back!

tuck-vs-mccombs-115769.html

All your voting and comments would be appreciated.