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Combined Rankings...
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01 Jan 2007, 21:54
A different approach to rankings.
If you take the following:
Business Week
Forbes
Fin Times
US N&W
Economist
And look at each of their rankings, then assign a point value to the top 10. That is, #1 is 10 points, #2 is 9 points, #3 is 8 points, etc, you can then add up the points across each school/ranking to come up with a "combined" rank.
So for example, Chicago gets "10 points" for its BW rank, and only 5 for its US N&W rank.
Curiously, here's the list you get (along with its points)
Chicago 37
Wharton 36
Harvard 36
Stanford 36
Dartmouth 26
Kellogg 23
Columbia 21
MIT 14
Ross 11
Stern 10
Berkeley 10
Yale 8
Virginia 4
Duke 2
Cornell 2
UCLA 1
If you throw in WSJ (I got lazy and stopped) I think Wharton comes out as #1. The list is longer than 10 because the top 10 differ from publication to publication.