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U.S. News & World Report 2009 Business School Rankings Released

"U.S. News & World Report yesterday released its most recent ranking of the nation’s best business schools, revealing little change from last year among the very top spots. Harvard Business School remained at number one, a spot it shared last year with Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford slipped a little to number two.
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, meanwhile, sidled up a spot to join the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in third place this year. And MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business tied for fifth place..."
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Source: ClearAdmit | U.S. News & World Report

How Should You Use Rankings? (Part 3 of 5)

"How should you use the rankings? For initial research and data mining. And maybe a little reputation checking if you are lucky enough to receive multiple acceptances.
First for that initial research: Let’s say you are looking into the schools you will apply to. You recognize that your academic qualifications are an important element in that decision so you want to know average test scores and GPA for the different schools..."
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Source: Accepted

The Rankings (Part 2)

"The rankings are not objective measures of educational quality that apply across the board to all students. Nothing fits that bill. Educational quality is highly subjective, and experts debate it endlessly. Moreover, student objectives vary so “quality” differs from student to student.  For example, a female student interested in strategy consulting wants to attend a business school with a strong women’s network. She is interested in the surveys conducted by US News and BusinessWeek on leading schools in general management. In addition, The Financial Times allows her to rank schools based on the percentage of women in class and on faculty..."
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Source: Accepted

The Rankings (Part 1)

"US News is publishing its much-watched, much-maligned annual ranking of graduate programs by April 23. I have developed several posts on rankings, what they are, what they aren’t, and how to use them. I will post them over the next several days.
Ahh, those rankings. Hated by some. Relied on with religious zeal by others. Should you praise them? Should you damn them? Should you use them?..."
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Source: Accepted

HEC Tops in Marketing Outside US Per Princeton Review

"Reuters reports: HEC in France has been voted the top business school outside the USA for the teaching of marketing by over 19,000 business school students in the latest survey by The Princeton Review. The school was one of only two non-US schools to feature in the complete ranking, which also covered subjects such as general and global management, finance and accounting, and operations.  The survey, which involves 296 schools around the world ask ed students how well they felt their school equipped them to succeed in each of the specified areas on a five point scale. In the marketing category HEC was ranked alongside such major US players as Harvard, Fuqua, Kellogg and Berkeley Haas..."
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Source: Reuters | more at Accepted

FT Releases 2008 Global MBA Rankings

by Stacy Blackman Consulting

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business claimed the top spot for a fourth year in the Financial Times 2008 Global MBA rankings, released earlier this week. Rounding out the upper echelon we have the usual suspects: Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and the London Business School, which jumped from fifth to second place this year—the highest position ever for a European business school.

See the complete list of Financial Times rankings here.

B-School Rankings: Resource List

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Economist Intelligence Unit
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About.com
University of Illinois
MBA Programs.info
Career Dynamo
Foreign MBA | rankings table
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The Myth of School Rankings

"Every year, millions of magazines are sold upon the release of the annual school rankings issue. Businessweek, US News & World Reports, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and others conduct huge surveys capturing extensive data in their effort to rank the relative value of each school. Anyone who has spent time perusing these rankings surely has noticed one thing – they are all completely different! Check out the top 10 U.S. schools from a sampling of publications..."
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