Economist.com Rankings?

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Not that I fully believe this (even though I'm at Haas and am probably biased

), but it's still cool to say Haas is #1 in the US! :D https://www.economist.com/business-education/whichmba/ Looks like career services is a big part of this ranking, and we do have a pretty kick ass career services organization. Anyway, no hate please, just another one of the rankings craziness that shows we shouldn't put too much emphasis into how a school is ranked (even US News and BW).

1 IESE Business School - University of Navarra Spain 2 IMD - International Institute for Management Development Switzerland 3 California at Berkeley, University of - Haas School of Business United States 4 Chicago, University of - Booth School of Business United States 5 Harvard Business School United States 6 Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business United States 7 Stanford Graduate School of Business United States 8 London Business School Britain 9 Pennsylvania, University of - Wharton School United States 10 Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Belgium 11 Cambridge, University of - Judge Business School Britain 12 York University - Schulich School of Business Canada 13 New York University - Leonard N Stern School of Business United States 14 HEC School of Management, Paris France 15 Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management United States 16 IE Business School Spain 17 Melbourne Business School - University of Melbourne Australia 18 Cranfield School of Management Britain 19 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management United States 20 Columbia Business School United States 21 Henley Business School Britain 22 Warwick Business School Britain 23 INSEAD France / Singapore 24 Virginia, University of - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration United States 25 Michigan, University of - Stephen M. Ross School of Business United States 26 Mannheim Business School Germany 27 Yale School of Management United States 28 Duke University - Fuqua School of Business United States 29 ESADE Business School Spain 30 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management Hong Kong

Steel · Answer

Curious to see where they get "Diversity of recruiters" from..... Kellogg had recruiters from some absurd number of companies come to campus and people who went to ~300 companies out of 600 people and yet we got ranked 40 on this point. Booth which sends its folks to a narrower group of companies got 5 (only use Booth because I know it due to proximity).

I love the Economist - but I think they over think their rankings.

jankynoname · Answer

These are interesting. In general a lot of these rankings seem to be pulling away from being U.S. focused. It seems like the top notch international programs are really beginning to gain some clout. I wonder how the typical recruiter (who is not necessarily as ranking obsessed as we are as applicants) would view a IESE/INSEAD/LBS versus the traditional H/W/S? Anyways, it's shaping up to be a good year for Haas with this and the recent Nobel prize...

pittgreek · Answer

Hass # 1 r u kidding ....... . ???:)

kryzak · Answer

like I said, don't hate. And please spell "HAAS" correctly.

But to Steel's point, I'm still trying to figure out how they came up with this ranking myself. Granted, I'm not going to complain if some publication puts my school #1 for once. :D The Nobel Prize was cool though. We had free champagne for everyone the next day. Woot!

Steel · Answer

Mmmmmm...... Champagne.....

clarksdv2 · Answer

Speaking of Haas, I love watching the Levi's marketing case video produced back in the 70's starring Peter Haas, Jr. and a whole bunch of guys with big hair and big mustaches. And a whole team of people who launched a line of Levi's suits only to crash and burn after failing to listen to their focus groups.

3underscore · Answer

I appreciate that they are prepared to tell you how the rankings are arrived at.

https://www.economist.com/business-education/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14665364

Which raises the question that - if graduating salary is the biggest driver in the FT league tables, you may as well not bother reading it. I knew it was big, but 40% is simply stupid.

kryzak · Answer

Oh yeah, we watched that one too, it was pretty funny. As for the FT salary, I guess it's only the salary that counts, and not the differential? Haas is ranked pretty low on Financial Times because of that differential (many go into non-profit, social impact, entrepreneurship here and/or come in with more work experience thus higher pay). Anyway, here's our newsroom on the Nobel prize. https://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Haas/Home ... amson.aspx

gregarious · Answer

This was the video case for the marketing class I sat in on at Sloan last week. Pretty interesting stuff and the prof. was great. There were about a dozen people not in the class who actually sat in aisles just to listen because this guy was that good.

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