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03 May 2005, 17:54
One ranking system that does not appear too often on GMAT Club is US News. US News is strongly influenced by the admissions attributes of schools. Accordingly, it does a pretty good job of showing which schools attract students with high admissions values. While quality and admisisons factors are certainly related, admisisons factors are still relatively crude indicators of quality. Further, the US News system essentially ignores the many quality MBA programs outside of the United States.
Since many of the schools in the Western US tend to have realtively high admissions factors, the US News system tends to rate these schools much more highly than other ranking systems. Consider, for instance, Univ of Washington which ranks #93 worldwide in FT2005 but #18 in the US for US News 2006. Some of the rankings of US News appear to test the credulity of the reader- consider UC Berkeley outranking both Columbia and Chicago in 2006. Nonetheless, the top 15 or so US schools on EIU, FT, BW, and US News tend to be pretty similar.