GMAT Club 2011 MBA Rankings

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Following the tradition of several years, I would like to release the GMAT Club Business School Rankings!
As Ryguy said in 2009, Forget the USNEWS and BW rankings. These are the true GMATClub rankings for your B-schools. These are based on the activity of GMAT Club members. For reference, in the last 30 days, we have had 190,000 absolutely unique visitors, so even though these are not scientific, these reflect relative competitiveness in the Top 20 world (and a bit beyond).

This year, we are releasing 3 types of rankings:

Popularity (based on the number of thread views by registered members and visitors)
Activity (based on the number of replies in each "Calling" thread)
Silent (based on the number of views per reply)

Popularity Rankings
Rank	School	2011 Views	2009 Views	2008 Views
1	Wharton	478,126	47,568	25,063
2	Kellogg	449,861	64,511	30,731
3	CBS	437,158	30,367	16,133
4	HBS	406,635	26,297	14,706
5	Booth	398,527	49,010	43,929
6	Ross	305,291	31,804	23,872
7	Stanford	299,292	24,671	12,558
8	MIT	267,977	19,513	11,762
9	Tuck	226,837	17,052	9,772
10	Stern	213,401	10,171	9,201
11	Fuqua	210,061	22,979	6,886
12	Yale	182,431	4,054	7,191
13	Haas	179,200	21,035	12,610
14	Darden	131,704	16,765	7,035
15	Consortium***	124,395
16	Anderson	121,661	12,603	9,075
17	Johnson	120,097	29,731	16,238
18	McCombs	102,893	6,064
19	Kenan Flagler	62,738
20	Tepper	58,019	4,259
21	USC	54,980
22	Georgetown	49,240
23	Kelley	25,174
24	Mendoza	15,644
25	Emory	14,341
26	Simon	14,105
27	Rice	13649
28	Boston U	11,485
29	Boston College	7,436
30	Olin	6,866
31	Babson	3,266
32	Vanderbilt	2,846

DISCLAIMER: This is just a "popularity in GMAT Club" ranking. The ranking is based on the number of thread views of each school's "Calling All Applicants" thread. So the method is definitely not scientific. It's just interesting to see what schools get more interest at GMAT Club.
*** Consortium is not a school but was left for comparison purposes.

Activity Rankings
Rank	School	Replies
1	CBS	3909
2	Kellogg	3502
3	Ross	3465
4	Booth	3326
5	Wharton	3099
6	Consortium***	2543
7	HBS	2374
8	Fuqua	2097
9	MIT	2050
10	Tuck	2010

DISCLAIMER: This is just a "reply activity in GMAT Club" ranking. The ranking is based on the number of replies of each school's "Calling All Applicants" thread. So the method is definitely not scientific. It's just interesting to see what schools get more interest at GMAT Club.
*** Consortium is not a school but was left for comparison purposes.

Silent Rankings
1	Stanford	227
2	HBS	171
3	Wharton	154
4	MIT	130
5	Kellogg	128
6	Booth	119
7	Haas	116
8	UCLA	112
9	Tuck	112
10	CBS	111

DISCLAIMER: This is just a "reply/view activity in GMAT Club" ranking. The ranking is based on the number of views divided by replies of each school's "Calling All Applicants" thread. So the method is definitely not scientific. It's just interesting to see what schools get more interest at GMAT Club. Why silent? Not sure if that's the best name, but basically it is the schools who generate a lot of attention (thread views) but have few posts - reflects the silent/competitive/snobby/etc applicants who do not participate but rather just view.

Other helpful threads:

2009 thread released on 3/27/2009 the-all-new-gmatclub-business-school-rankings-77088.html
2008 thread released on 4/1/2008 the-all-new-gmatclub-business-school-rankings-58341.html#p418605
Blog post: https://gmatclub.com/blog/2009/03/2009-g ... -rankings/

AmrithS · Answer

Good Job GMAT Club!

jko · Answer

Interesting, thanks bb.

bb · Answer

Yes, some interesting facts in there - in 2009, Wharton thread received 47K views (470K views this year).

P.S. I will see if I can update the table with 2009 and 2008 data when I have a minute.

goldgoldandgold · Answer

FWIW - Shouldn't popularity traffic numbers be weighted based on class size to get better results? I know this is just for fun, but just my 78 cents. Of course there are assumptions to be made, but...

For ex - Tuck may have higher weighted popularity than IDK Ross? (250 students versus ~500?)

Think!

bsd_lover · Answer

Would be interesting if you could throw LBS (and indeed other Euro schools such as INSEAD and Oxbridge) in the mix - with some kind of adjustment factor to cater for the fact the LBS thread isn't in the main B-School forum.

bb · Answer

Thank you BSD_Lover - I have not done the international schools. I will add those as well. (Pretty excited actually do it)

bb · Answer

International MBA GMAT Club Rankings  
   Rank    School    Views   
  1   INSEAD (Jan 2011)   142491    2   INSEAD (Sep 2011)   134561    3   LBS   119717    4   Oxbridge   38664  
  5   IMD   23363    6   ISB   22402    7   HKUST   18331  
  8   IESE   14015    9   HEC   8629    10   IE (Nov 2011)   4845    11   CIEBS   1801

DISCLAIMER: This is just a "popularity in GMAT Club" ranking. The ranking is based on the number of thread views of each school's "Calling All Applicants" thread. So the method is definitely not scientific. It's just interesting to see what schools get more interest at GMAT Club. These may be not accurate due to a lack of exposure to applicants in all countries.

thetiming · Answer

Great to see stats about the schools I'm considering =)
Thanks to bsd_lover for the suggestion and to bb for the prompt execution.

jordanhendrix · Answer

interesting that the silent rankings are more inline with the bigger rankings usnews/p&q

Michmax3 · Answer

wow great to see how much growth this site has had in just 2 years.

Michmax3 · Answer

I think more likely it should be weighted on whether the school had some kind of glitch in their decision notification process lol, that seems to bring the most replies

bb · Answer

I like the idea very much (replies per seat or views per seat?) I will also be making a different table/ranking later on - similar to this one, which will take into consideration class size: admission-chances-for-gmat-club-members-97806.html

bb · Answer

This was true for Ross and probably boosted their numbers but I don't know of a good way to exclude that effect.

ardk · Answer

Interesting but not surprising....yeah the bigger schools have the advantage in the first two categories....

ashkanator · Answer

very interesting stats...

malbec · Answer

very interesting stats
thanks for sharing
and also very veryyyy impressive how gmat club is increasing!!!
the numbers o f views (and I bet the replies to) x 10 from last year
Incredible growth!! Congratulations!

ashkanator · Answer

Actually I was thinking the exact same thing... Incredible growth in the umber of site users...

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International MBA GMAT Club Rankings
Rank	School	Views
1	INSEAD (Jan 2011)	142491
2	INSEAD (Sep 2011)	134561
3	LBS	119717
4	Oxbridge	38664
5	IMD	23363
6	ISB	22402
7	HKUST	18331
8	IESE	14015
9	HEC	8629
10	IE (Nov 2011)	4845
11	CIEBS	1801