US NEWS 2008 RANKINGS

2008 2007
1. HBS 1. Harvard University
2. Stanford 2. Stanford University
3. Wharton 3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4. MIT 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
5. Kellogg 4. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
Chicago 6. University of Chicago
7. Tuck 7. Columbia University (NY)
8. UC-Berkeley 7. University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
9. Columbia 9. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
10. NYU 10. University of California–Los Angeles (Anderson)

11. Ross 11. Duke University (Fuqua) (NC)
12. Duke 11. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ross)
Darden 13. New York University (Stern)
14. Cornell 13. University of Virginia (Darden)
Yale 15. Yale University (CT)
16. UCLA 16. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) (PA)
17. CMU 16. Cornell University (Johnson) (NY)
18. UNC 18. Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)
UT-Austin 18. University of Texas–Austin (McCombs)
20. Emory 20. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)

21. USC 21. Purdue University–West Lafayette (Krannert) (IN)
22. OSU 22. Ohio State University (Fisher)
Purdue 23. Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)
24. Indiana 23. Michigan State University (Broad)
25. Gerogetown 23. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Carlson)
GIT 26. University of Rochester (Simon) (NY)
Maryland 26. Washington University in St. Louis
Minnesota

Those are 2007/2008 compared. I am really interested to see if the rankings are legit some schools made huge leaps if so, ie MD went from 38/41 to 25/29.

A little move up for Stern, not bad.

Drop 2007 is on the right 08 is on the left....

squali83,

Your avatar " Rice University" looks great !! Are you heading there ?

Right, so that's a move up from 13 to 10, no? I think the headings are wrong if 2007 is on the right and 2008 on the left.

You are right just edited the post...now all makes sense. Sorry.

Yep, can't wait the campus is gorgeous and I love TX despite what others (see aaudetat) say about the state.

Great!

I went to Dallas few months back, and loved the weather and the fast high ways !!

cheers

wow...Georgia Tech is number 26...

Awesome... Even though thats where I'm heading, in all honestly, I disagree w/ that ranking..

but hey...if it brings in more recruitors...wonderful!

Fast highways are a plus! I cannot wait!

I don't understand why US News props up mid-tier public schools so much. They certainly aren't bad schools, but I don't think the recruiting companies and placement stats of OSU or Minnesota are indicative of top 25 caliber schools. Funny methodology, IMO.

I agree. Living in the DC area I can tell you that employers would never view Georgetown and Maryland as being on the same level.

Hjort has some good posts on here questioning the validity of the US News ranking, and I thoroughly agree with his views.

For my money, the BW rankings seem to be the most legit. That said, I think every ranking should begin with H and S.

wow, UCLA fell.

Stern's the big winner.

Just keep it under 80 and you should be cool.

I live in the DC area and I contemplated applying to MD but not Gtown because I feel that MD has a strong rep. and there is a huge Smith billboard on your way into Gtown, I found that rather amusing.