mappleby wrote:
I don't believe for a minute that given the choice between Columbia and Ross, Tepper, Haas, Johnson or Fuqua anybody would turn down admission to Columbia. None of these are bad programs but nobody realistically believes Michigan is a better MBA than Columbia.
I disagree. This is exactly why rankings for me are worthless beyond given you a sense which are thr top 25-50 schools in no particular order.
Each and every applicant must sit down and consider what they want out of their mba, where they want to study, what teaching method is better for them and post mba goals and then match that to the diff. Programs.
I agree if u are an applicant who wants to work in finance, wants to live in nyc, doesnt mind a big class, wants to live abroad post-mba, it would surely indicate he or she would choose columbia.
If its an applicant who wants to go into consulting, wants a general management program, a tight knit community, would prefer to stay in the mid west afterwards. If the applicant did a good research i would bet he or she would pick michigan.
Thats why i think rankings are useless beyond a very basic initial starting point. Ross and Columbia are so different they can hardly be compared and its unfair to rank one over the other.
Out of the mentioned schools, in my preference list tepper is the only school lower than columbia.
Rankings are so overrated. They are ranked on the bottom of my decision factors rankings LOL
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