Rankings
A comprehensive archive of all Clear Admit MBA Blog posts covering graduate business school rankings according to leading news and media agencies.
Harvard Business School, Stanford Share Number One Spot Again in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
U.S. News & World Report released its annual ranking of business schools yesterday, revealing little change at the very top from last year. Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business tied for first, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came in third again.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management tied for number four. Last year, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business shared in a three-way tie for that spot, but this year it slipped down to sixth. Continue reading…
Harvard Business School Regains Number One Spot in Financial Times 2013 MBA Ranking
Harvard Business School (HBS) returned to the top of the Financial Times (FT) MBA rankings for the first time in eight years, displacing Stanford Graduate Business School, which held the top spot last year. This year marks the fourth time HBS has held the number one spot in the ranking’s 15-year history.
According to FT Business Education Editor Della Bradshaw, HBS was able to rise to the top of the rankings thanks in part to its new dean. “One of the things we measure in our rankings is the international perspective and achievement of the programs,” Bradshaw said in a video interview on the FT site. “Dean Nitin Nohria, who is the first Harvard dean born outside North America, has taken over and has brought that ethos to the school,” she continued. HBS also has added new compulsory oversees elements for its students as part of its MBA program, which Bradshaw believes may have helped HBS regain ground as well. Continue reading…
Spain’s IE Business School Seizes Top Spot in Financial Times’ European Business School Ranking
IE Business School of Spain knocked HEC Paris of France from the number one spot it had held for the past six years in the most recent ranking of European business schools from the Financial Times, which were announced this week.
The FT ranking is based on the indexed scores achieved by schools this year in five individual rankings – for MBAs, executive MBAs, masters in management and open and custom executive education. IE participated in the master in management ranking for the first time in 2012, making this the first year the Spanish school was included in all five rankings. HEC Paris, for its part, lost its top rank in part due to its participation in a joint EMBA program with London School of Economics and NYU Stern. As just one-third of the program, HEC Paris received only one-third of the program score. “In effect, HEC’s 4.33 programs lost out to IE’s five programs,” read the FT.
To be sure, the FT stressed, capturing the top spot in the European schools ranking also reflects IE’s strong performance across all of the rankings, including coming in third in the MBA rankings. But competition at the top is growing, with more schools participating in all five rankings, according to the FT.
The top 10 European schools according to the 2012 FT ranking are as follow:
IE Business School
HEC Paris
London Business School
INSEAD
ESADE
IESE
IMD
University of Saint Gallen
Rotterdam School of Management
ESCP Europe
View the complete 2012 Financial Times European business school rankings.
Forbes Ranks the MBA Rankings
In a column today, Forbes magazine took a collective look at all five of the big MBA rankings – its own, as well as those from Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the Economist, the Financial Times and U.S. News – and compiled the results into a “sort of Ranking of the MBA Rankings” for 2012. For prospective MBA applicants looking to make sense of the different rankings, the piece was useful for its succinct summary of the various methodologies each publication employs to arrive at its list.
Though, as the article stressed, they are in overly simple terms, the following provides a valuable cheat sheet to remind yourself which ranking measures which attributes of an MBA program (and, perhaps by extension, which results are most aligned with what you value most in a program). Continue reading…
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, London Business School Top Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2012 Rankings
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and London Business School topped this year’s rankings of U.S. and international MBA programs respectively by Bloomberg Businessweek. The rankings, released yesterday, employed a methodology shift that resulted in some major shifts for schools toward the bottom of the list but had little impact on the top-tier schools. The basic criteria, however, for how schools are judged remains the same at it has been for the past two decades, namely how well they serve their students and recruiters.
Among U.S. schools, there was no change at the very top, with Chicago Booth, Harvard Business School and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School claiming spots one, two and three respectively, as they did in 2010. There was some minor jostling for position among the remaining schools in the top 15, but the notable shifts were advances by Cornell’s Johnson School of Management and Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and drops by Columbia Business School (CBS) and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Johnson jumped from 13 in 2010 to 7 this year, and Tepper moved up from 15 to 11. Haas slid, meanwhile, from 8 in 2010 to 13 this year, and CBS likewise fell from 9 to 14. Continue reading…
University of Chicago Booth School of Business Tops Economist’s Rankings
The Economist released its 10th annual ranking of full-time MBA programs yesterday, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business seized the top spot, advancing from second position last year. According to the Economist analysis, Chicago Booth’s top ranking reflects the fact that its students find jobs in the widest range of industries and gush about the school’s career services. It also provides proof, according to the Economist, that rather than just a finance powerhouse, Chicago Booth’s is a well-rounded MBA program.
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, ranked number one last year, fell to number two in this year’s ranking. The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business inched up from fourth last year to third this year, and Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School rounded out the top five, coming in at fourth and fifth respectively (up from fifth and seventh last year). Continue reading…
Admissions Tip: Using Rankings to Your Advantage
There are numerous sources that can knowledgeably rank the “top” MBA programs. However, because business schools receive different rankings depending on the sources’ criteria, it can be difficult to understand which are the “best” schools. Therefore today we’d like to talk about how b-school applicants can use rankings to discover the “best” schools—for them. Although the general merits of each school are important, we also believe that it is important for MBA applicants to rank schools based on their individual needs and interests. Therefore we encourage students to use official MBA school rankings in the following ways:
1. Use rankings to create a consensus. Sources rarely have the exact same rankings as each other, and therefore trying to determine the “top five” schools can be frustrating. However, it’s best to compile these different sources of rankings to form a consensus regarding the top schools. For example, if your target program is consistently listed in the top 15, regardless of its individual ranking among different sources, you should feel confident that it is regarded as a top school by industry professionals and future employers. Continue reading…
U.S. News & World Report 2013 Business School Rankings Recap
Our post yesterday about the rosy employment outlook for current MBA grads was drawn in great part from data collected by U.S. News & World Report for its annual ranking of best business schools, released last week. In case you missed it, Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business once again tied for first, marking the fourth time in five years those two schools have shared the top spot. Last year, Stanford edged ahead enough to bump HBS down to number two, but no such luck this year.
In a now crowded field, U.S. News has been in the business school rankings business since before most everyone else. Its rankings are based on a weighted average of several indicators, including overall program quality, peer assessments, recruiter assessments, placement success, mean starting salary and bonus, average GMAT score and GPA and more. Continue reading…
U.S. News & World Report 2013 Business School Rankings Recap
Our post yesterday about the rosy employment outlook for current MBA grads was drawn in great part from data collected by U.S. News & World Report for its annual ranking of best business schools, released last week. In case you missed it, Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business once again tied for first, marking the fourth time in five years those two schools have shared the top spot. Last year, Stanford edged ahead enough to bump HBS down to number two, but no such luck this year.
In a now crowded field, U.S. News has been in the business school rankings business since before most everyone else. Its rankings are based on a weighted average of several indicators, including overall program quality, peer assessments, recruiter assessments, placement success, mean starting salary and bonus, average GMAT score and GPA and more. Continue reading…
Stanford Graduate School of Business Tops Financial Times MBA Rankings for First Time
Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) this year tops the Financial Times global ranking of MBA programs, becoming only the fourth institution to do so. Stanford, which for the past 13 years has placed in the top 10, bested previous winners Harvard Business School (HBS), the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and London Business School to take the top spot for the first time.
HBS came in at number two, followed by Wharton at number three. London Business School, meanwhile, fell from joint first to fourth, mirroring a general trend in which U.S. schools fared marginally better than their European counterparts. Falling salaries among alumni from European schools – an impact of the recent economic turmoil in Europe – account in part for this trend, the FT reports. Continue reading…
HEC Paris Tops Financial Times’ 2011 European Business School Rankings
HEC Paris maintained its number one position in the Financial Times’ ranking of best European business schools this year, released this week. INSEAD bumped London Business School from number two to number three, and Spain’s IESE Business School and Switzerland’s IMD came in at fourth and fifth respectively. Overall, there were no dramatic changes in the line-up of top European schools save the rapid ascent of Italy’s SDA Bocconi School of Management, which tied for seventh this year as compared to its three-year rank of 16th.
In a special report accompanying the rankings, the FT’s Della Bradshaw pointed out that European schools, which until now attracted non-European applicants with their diverse student bodies and globally focused curriculums, face several new threats that could undermine these advantages. Chief among them are the continuing euro crisis and the reluctance of European governments to award post-degree work visas to non-Europeans as well as the rapid rise of Chinese and Indian business schools. Continue reading…
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