As many of our readers have seen, US News published their MBA rankings for 2007 over the weekend. There weren’t any major surprises, but that’s somewhat par for the course with this ranking, due to the its reliance on statistics like GMAT averages, GPAs, starting salaries and peer assessments. These stats tend to be less fickle than student and recruiter opinion (the dominant metrics in several other prominent rankings).
Despite the relatively unchanged rankings, there are some interesting bits of information. For example, it’s good to see that starting salaries and recruiting metrics are creeping up again.
Without further ado, here are the top tier for 2007:
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Wharton
4. MIT and Kellogg (tie)
6. Chicago
7. Berkeley and Columbia (tie)
9. Dartmouth
10. UCLA
11. Duke and Michigan
13. NYU and UVA
15. Yale
16. Cornell and CMU
Out of curiosity, the Clear Admit team spent a few minutes looking at this batch of top 17 schools and how they’ve faired over the last three years in the US News rankings. Our quick calcuations showed a cumulative ranking that looks something like this:
Harvard (1)
Stanford (2)
Wharton (2.67)
MIT (4)
Kellogg (4.33)
Chicago (6.67)
Berkeley (7)
Columbia (7.33)
Dartmouth (8)
Michigan (10.33)
UCLA (11)
Duke (11)
UVA (13)
NYU (13.33)
Yale (14.67)
Cornell (15)
CMU (16.67)
Despite a bit of jockeying for position in the 10-14 range, things are clearly quite stable. It’s also interesting to see the sort of tiering that manifests itself when averaging three years of US News rankings. For example: Havard/Stanford/Wharton, followed by MIT/Kellogg, followed by Chicago/Berkeley/Columbia/Tuck, followed by Michigan/UCLA/Duke, etc.
As usual, we’d like to encourage our readers to be sure to use these rankings alongside other publications and resources. In addition to the popular rankings offered by Business Week, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, etc, check out this ranking of top ‘feeder’ schools that we’ve found quite interesting.
