US News MBA 2018 Rankings!

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The 2018 US News Best Business Schools Rankings are Out!

Source: https://usnews.com/best-graduate-schools ... a-rankings

1. HBS
2. Wharton
3. Chicago Booth
4. Sloan (MIT)
4. Kellogg
4. Stanford
7. Haas
8. Tuck
9. Columbia
9. Yale - they managed to hang on to the top 10 this year
11. Ross
12. Fuqua
12. Stern (Welcome back from outer space due to a stupid data issue)
14. Darden
15. Anderson
16. Johnson
17. McCombs
18. UNC
19. Tepper
20 Goizueta

2017 vs. 2018 Rankings....
School	2018	2017	Delta
Harvard	1	1	-
Wharton	2	4	+2
Chicago Booth	3	2	-1
Stanford GSB	4	2	-2
MIT Sloan	4	5	+1
Kellogg	4	5	+1
Berkeley Haas	7	7	-
Tuck	8	8	-
Yale SOM	9	8	-1
Columbia	9	10	+1
Michigan Ross	11	12	+1
Duke Fuqua	12	12	-
NYU Stern	12	20	+8
UVA Darden	14	11	-3
UCLA Anderson	15	15	-
Cornell Johnson	16	14	-2
McCombs	17	16	-1
Kenan Flagler	18	16	-2
CMU Tepper	19	18	-1
Goizueta	20	19	-1

OFFICIAL 2018 RANKINGS

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yodboy · Answer

Hot news

Thanks for posting. Goizueta actually was ranked #19 last year.

bb · Answer

Thank you for pointing out - I have removed my rash comments (noticed that they went down a notch when I did the 2017 vs. 2018 comparison). However, in that sea of Red, it is still not bad... speaking of the sea of red - not sure how it is even possible to have so many negatives and so few positives.

P.S. I am happy for Stern. Glad they came back. I was holding my breath for them. I felt bad  last year .

yodboy · Answer

Oh I just noticed that the screenshots you posted include figures on GMAT and % employed at Graduation.

A question: does graduation means the day they get the degree, or the day coursework finishes?

bb · Answer

Interesting question. Do you think those 2 dates are very different?
Graduation is when you receive your diploma and thus you get the degree. If my memory serves me right, the course work usually finishes just a few days before that time (not more than a week at most) and if you finish your course work early or late, then you will graduate at an earlier/later dates.

iVoRy · Answer

Probably because there are so many ties this year.
Most notably 3 way ties for 4th place.

bb · Answer

By the way, a quick shameless plug for a popularity rankings I put together (a few weeks ago) that are based on the number of applicants on GMAT Club - https://gmatclub.com/forum/school-ranki ... 35933.html

You can see some interesting correlations with the 2018 US news

yodboy · Answer

I'm not sure about US but in my undergrad, I finishes coursework in Feb and the graduation ceremony is in November. I guess it's not the case in the US then?

bb · Answer

No, definitely not in the US Business Schools. That would be very deceiving.... even if you get your degree in Dec, you will be a contingent of a very small graduation but usually you will get your diploma then. Only in a few random situations one would have a gap.

In most cases, the measure indicates that students found a job pre-graduation and pre-finishing their degree, which is really awesome as it minimizes down-time and demonstrates strength of the school's recruiting (or caliber of students). There is always the chicken and the egg argument/dilemma - are the HBS students finding the jobs because they graduated from HBS or are they finding the jobs because HBS recruits the most successful students?

Tazz84 · Answer

Wharton tied Harvard at #1

yodboy · Answer

bb Could you please share the screenshot of Marketing Ranking? I want to see where Emory is

Thanks

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