USAinUK wrote:
I've done a quick analysis comparing Booth to other top programs. Booth comes in at 2 or 3 regardless of how you cut the numbers.
My list uses the latest data that I could find from Forbes, Business Week, FT (US-only), Economist (US-only), CNN and US News. Feel free to update this thread if you find more up-to-date information. I've also re-run the analysis excluding non-business publications (CNN, USNews), which improves Booth's relative rank. Either way, the top 5 (HBS, Booth, Stanford, CBS, Wharton) don't really change.
Published rankings are obviously variable (they change annually), subject to sampling error (not all schools are ranked by all publications), and methodology biased (publications are not uniform in their ranking criteria). All that said, I think this provides a useful benchmark of the top 5 and top 10 programs in the US right now. And I think it reinforces the importance of "fit" if you've been admitted to more than one top 5 programs.
Just took a quick look. How did you get #4 for Wharton US News (I thought it was tied #3 with MIT). And also I thought Booth was #12 on FT (not #6)? Maybe I'm looking the wrong list somehow?