Today, the Wall Street Journal released its annual ranking of full-time MBA Programs offered by U.S. business schools.
It amazes me as to how these rankings differ so much from the one released by Business week recently. My suggestion to people who are just in the process of applying is not to depend too much on these rankings and only use it to get an insight into general industry trend. Bottom line, if you are in the process of short listing schools to apply, consider following things:

a) Area of concentration
b) Duration of the program
c) cost of education and expected time on ROI
d) Access to market & alumni

http://www.collegejournal.com/reports/b ... refresh=on


1
University of Michigan (Stephen M. Ross School of Business)
2
Carnegie Mellon University (David A. Tepper School of Business)
3
Dartmouth College (Tuck School of Business)
4
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School)
5
University of Chicago
6
Yale University
7
Northwestern University (Kellogg Graduate School of Management)
8
Columbia University
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan School of Management)
10
Stanford University
11
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School)
12
University of Virginia (Darden Graduate School of Business Administration)
13
Harvard University
14
Duke University (Fuqua School of Business)
15
University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business)
16
University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business)
17
New York University (Leonard N. Stern School of Business)
18
Cornell University (Johnson Graduate School of Management)
19
University of California at Los Angeles (The Anderson School of Management)
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Praveen

The whole thing looks rather silly with rather silly criteria.

As a non-American the only places I have heard of as successful in this area are:

13 Harvard
10 Stanford
9 MIT
6 Yale
4 Wharton
2 Carnegie Mellon

And I would probably instinctively put them in more like that order for brand name / competitiveness, so they might as well have used a random order.

The funny thing is this ranking is actually an improvement over previous ones by the WSJ- remember in '02 when Stanford was #39?

Pravin,

I guess you got the old rankings in there. Check the latest ranking at

http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool_article/20050921-table-national.html

The WSJ rankings are not an overall rankings of best schools. In fact, there is no best school...there are only best schools for you. The WSJ rankings are just the recruiters take on which schools' graduates they have the best experience with and whom they like hiring. Basically, you are on corporate recruiters better side if you are graduating from one of these top schools...thats all. Stanford ranking lower than Michican only means that this past year, recruiters enjoyed hiring Michigan graduates more than they did with Stanford graduates. If your goal is to look best in recruiters eyes then follow these rankings, otherwise dont.

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