{"id":31433,"date":"2015-12-03T02:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T09:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=31433"},"modified":"2016-07-27T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T23:00:10","slug":"2015-poets-quants-best-u-s-mba-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2015-poets-quants-best-u-s-mba-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Poets &#038; Quants Best U.S. MBA Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The much anticipated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2015\/11\/18\/harvard-business-school-tops-new-2015-poetsquants-mba-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poets &amp; Quants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rankings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is out! Let's see how <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P&amp;Q <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rates the top schools: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 Harvard's on top. As usual. Here's the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P&amp;Q <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">position on this: \"No rival beats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/harvardhbs\">Harvard<\/a> in the formidable resources it brings to the game: more superstar professors than any other school, the diversity of its course offerings, the stellar quality of its students, the size and scope of its campus, and the career achievements of its alumni spread all over the world.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 The M7 all take up the first 7 slots of the rankings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/zones\/bschools\/duke-fuqua\">Duke Fuqua<\/a> slipped out of the top 10 to 11th place this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 Yale SOM make it to the top 10 for its first time ever (10th place) in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P&amp;Q <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rankings history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.accepted.com\/mba\/rankings-report\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pq-2015-rankings.png\" alt=\"How much do rankings really matter?\" width=\"800\" height=\"1138\" \/><\/a><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Ranks for both <em>The Financial Times<\/em> and <em>The Economist<\/em> surveys are U.S. only, not the overall global ranks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(This chart can be viewed in its original <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2015\/11\/18\/harvard-business-school-tops-new-2015-poetsquants-mba-ranking\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poets &amp; Quants <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ranks the top U.S. MBA programs by combining the five most influential rankings and weighing them based on the \"soundness of their methodologies.\" \u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S. News<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is given the most weight at 35%, followed by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(at 25%), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial Times <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Businessweek<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both at 15%, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Economist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at 10%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/info.accepted.com\/mba-rankings-report?utm_campaign=blogcta&amp;utm_medium=MBARankings&amp;utm_source=CTA\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/58291\/hub_generated\/resized\/117acfc8-5f71-429a-be0e-1f695dd64504.png\" alt=\"Click here to find out if you are misusing the business school rankings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28527 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Accepted_PremierAdmissionsCosultancy.png\" alt=\"Accepted: The Premier Admissions Cosultancy\" width=\"429\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2014\/03\/19\/mba-rankings-why-should-i-care\/\">Rankings: Why Should I Care?<\/a>\u00a0[short video]<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/10\/26\/2015-bloomberg-business-mba-rankings\/\">2015 Bloomberg Business MBA Rankings<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/zones\/bschools.aspx\">B-School Zones for Top MBA Programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/12\/02\/poets-quants-mba-rankings\/\">This article\u00a0<\/a><em>originally appeared on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/\">blog.accepted.com<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Applying to a top b-school? The talented folks at Accepted have helped hundreds of applicants get accepted to their dream programs. Whether you are figuring out where apply, writing your application essays, or prepping for your interviews, we are just a call (or click) away.<\/p>\n<p>Contact us, and get matched up with the consultant who will help\u00a0<em>you\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/hubs.ly\/H01gxJF0\">get accepted<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much anticipated Poets &amp; Quants rankings is out! Let&#8217;s see how P&amp;Q rates the top schools: \u2022 Harvard&#8217;s on top. As usual. Here&#8217;s the P&amp;Q position on this: &#8220;No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,939,775,243],"tags":[988,824,1935],"class_list":["post-31433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-accepted","category-admission-consultants","category-blog","tag-full-time-mba-rankings","tag-mba-rankings","tag-ranking","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433","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=31433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31434,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433\/revisions\/31434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}