{"id":1736,"date":"2009-12-30T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2009-12-31T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T08:02:35","slug":"how-to-use-the-mba-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/how-to-use-the-mba-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the MBA Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rankings.ft.com\/businessschoolrankings\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Financial Times<\/em><\/a> rankings' publication, expected to be released in January, Accepted is offering you a special report, written by Linda Abraham, founder and president of Accepted.com, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/rankingreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ins and outs of MBA rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this special rankings report you'll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the published rankings are and are not.<\/li>\n<li>How to use the rankings.<\/li>\n<li>How not to abuse the rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most importantly, you'll learn about the rankings\u2019 value (or lack thereof). Since there is no definitive way to rank schools, ultimately a school will be #1 only if YOU are a perfect fit with that school, regardless of how other people view it.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently B-school rankings should be used as supplementary not primary research material for learning about different MBA programs.<\/p>\n<p>But no one will argue this point: It's exciting when rankings come out, and they're fun to review. Just take the time to learn how to understand them properly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/rankingreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the Accepted's Special Report on the MBA Rankings<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object3\/947\/54\/s8255073883_9880.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260090948492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span>Accepted.com<\/a> ~ Helping You Write Your Best<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the Financial Times rankings&#8217; publication, expected to be released in January, Accepted is offering you a special report, written by Linda Abraham, founder and president of Accepted.com,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,3,4,6],"tags":[369,1896,39,370,27],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-career-reviews","category-current-events","tag-accepted-com-in-financial-times","tag-mba","tag-mba-admissions","tag-mba-advice","tag-rankings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}