jmr71483 wrote:
In general, I think it takes several years to truly shift a school's reputation and quality. That being said, I am not the least bit familar with any school's rankings prior to last year. If the rankings didn't get mixed up a little bit each year, the magazine wouldn't sell!
True. The rankings are going to change a little bit at the top every year, and often, some school will jump up 10-20 spots in the mid 60's to top 50 range.
I'm actually more interested in the law school rankings because law school has taken quite a few shots over the past couple years for being a grad school education bubble and the scam bloggers really have become mainstream., and I wonder if the stats are still so astronomically high for most of the Top 50, both for the GPA and the LSAT. Something has gotta give when the app numbers dropped from 2010 to 2011's incoming classes. The 2012 incoming class, there could be a bigger drop in average stats for most schools. There could be a shake up of some degree at the top as well because of the drop in applications...
As for business school there are fewer students applying too for the MBA at least, but it's nowhere close to what we saw with law school.