CNNMoney.com recently published Fortune magazine’s ranking of the “50 Best Business Schools for Getting Hired.” The list was compiled based on schools’ reputations with polled recruiters and career placement track records. To arrive at the job placement score, Fortune examined the percentage of students who secure jobs within 3 months of graduation (20% weighting), the average number of job offers per student (also weighted 20%) and average salary in a student’s first post-MBA position (accounting for the remaining 60%). In this way, Fortune’s methodology resembles a blend of the Wall Street Journal’s approach of surveying corporate recruiters and Forbes’s focus on post-graduation salary as a measure of return on investment.
The full list is available on the website; here are the top 20 (with an interesting four-way tie for 12th):
1. Wharton
2. Harvard Business School
3. MIT Sloan
4. Stanford GSB
5. Kellogg
6. Columbia Business School
7. Chicago GSB
8. Duke/Fuqua
9. Dartmouth/Tuck
10. NYU/Stern
11. Michigan/Ross
12. Berkeley/Haas
12. Cornell/Johnson
12. UVA/Darden
12. Yale SOM
16. Georgetown/McDonough
17. UCLA/Anderson
17. Thunderbird School of Global Management
19. UT Austin/McCombs
20. CMU/Tepper
Those interested can also peruse school-by-school information and profiles on the site.
NOTE: Since the time we posted this news, the data and methodology used in this ranking have been questioned, and CNNMoney.com has removed the entire feature from its site and issued an official apology.
