{"id":23851,"date":"2014-05-16T08:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=23851"},"modified":"2014-05-15T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:20:24","slug":"the-economists-top-20-north-american-mba-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/the-economists-top-20-north-american-mba-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist\u2019s Top 20 North American MBA Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"First-Place\"<\/a>Below you\u2019ll find The Economist<\/em>\u2019s top 20 American business schools<\/a>, with a rank on the left (ranking the top 20 in the U.S. and Canada) and a rank on the right (the school\u2019s place in the top 100 global rankings). As you\u2019ll see, the American programs listed are all located at the top or very close to the top of the top global programs. The Economist<\/em> article<\/a> highlights the legacy of American programs \u2013 their size, their history, their all-star faculties (all of Wharton\u2019s 245 professors have PhDs), and their financial magnitude.<\/p>\n

As always when looking at rankings, you need to understand the methodology behind them. The Economist\u2019s<\/em> methodology<\/a> is a weighted average going back to 2011 of some fairly quirky factors including \u201cDiversity of recruiters,\u201d \u201cNumber of languages taught,\u201d and \u201cNumber of overseas countries with an official alumni branch.\u201d If those and other factors considered by the Economist<\/em> are not important to you, then this ranking probably isn\u2019t that useful to you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are 16 schools on the global rankings that have an average GMAT score over 700; 14 of them are American (with Stanford GSB taking the cake with an average of 729).For opening up doors career-wise, the top 5 schools in the global rankings were all Americans \u2013 Chicago Booth<\/a>, Dartmouth Tuck<\/a>, UVA Darden<\/a>, and Columbia<\/a>. Interestingly, even with the top marks for job opportunities, graduates from American programs tend to earn less than those from European and Australian programs \u2013 the Economist<\/em> article claims that this is likely due to the limited pre-MBA work experience of those accepted at American programs. (Even Stanford<\/a>\u2019s grads, who in America boast the highest average salary of around $130,000, earn less than grads from less prestigious programs like IMD in Switzerland and University of Queensland in Australia.)<\/p>\n

In terms of cost, the American schools certainly rank at the top of the chart. A Harvard MBA<\/a> will run students $112,000. A degree from Wharton<\/a> costs $130,000.<\/p>\n

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