Bloomberg Businessweek bases its
ranking
of full-time MBA programs on surveys from 3,698 employers who recruit MBA graduates.
The magazine made public recruiter responses on a half dozen survey
questions, including which schools’ brand value gives graduates a big
advantage in their careers, which schools produce the most innovative
and creative graduates, and which provide the most diverse pool of
quality candidates.
- When asked, for example, which school’s graduates are “better trained
than grads from other schools,” Brigham Young University’s Marriott School
of Business and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
were tied for first, with a score of 4.17 on a five-point scale, with
five reflecting the highest grade possible. Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper
School of Business was third, scoring 4.10, while the University of
North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and Yale University’s
School of Management were tied for fourth place, with a score of 4.01.
Stanford ranked 21st, while Harvard languished in 28th place.
- Recruiters put Stanford at the
top of the list, with the highest average score of any category, a 4.69.
The GSB was followed by Harvard and Wharton. Georgetown’s McDonough School finished fourth, while MIT
Sloan was fifth. INSEAD and Yale tied for sixth place, followed by IMD,
Columbia and Chicago Booth.
- In terns of innovative and creative skills Harvard Business School tied with Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of
Business in 29th place. Harvard’s archrival on the West Coast, Stanford,
topped the category. Yale, Georgetown, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon
rounded out the top five.
- In terms of reputation, Stanford Graduate School of Business came
out first, with the University of Washington’s Foster School of
Business second, UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business third, Georgetown
fourth and Rice University fifth.
- For entrepreneurial skills Stanford still came
out first but Berkeley was second, with Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown
tied for third. The University of Washington came in fifth.
