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 Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject: Re: Do Rankings Matter? Things That Make You Go Hmmmm.... |
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My thoughts: I have to agree with Nikil's assessment of the rankings. While the rankings can be a benchmark in making a decision, I too believe it is quite subjective depending on what the applicant wants. While its nice to get a feel for the kind respect a particular school has garnered in each of the specialities, I personally would not make a decision based solely on the rankings that appear in some journal/news service.
Come on folks, let's hear what you have to say about this topic 
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Ultimately, your success in the MBA program and beyond is really dependent on you! Despite the rankings of your school, you need to work hard to network with classmates, reach out to alumni and utilize the resources of the career center to find your dream opportunity.
So look beyond a school’s overall ranking. Research the programs and make your ‘own’ rankings based on criteria that is relevant to you (I think ‘number of social functions’ was on my list!) Otherwise, you might overlook a program that could be well suited for your post-MBA goals.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Well I totally agree with Nikhil,its entirely about your own self,how you are gonna use the resources in the best possible way.Any B-School which ranks in top 10 doesnt necessary mean that your aims for persuing MBA will be satisfied by that School.
However your ambitions for MBA might just well be satisfied by a Buisness School which might not even features in the list |
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2008 BW Rankings (as of November 2008)
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/
# Top 30 U.S. Programs
# 1 University of Chicago (Booth)
# 2 Harvard University
# 3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
# 4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
# 5 University of Michigan (Ross)
# 6 Stanford University
# 7 Columbia University
# 8 Duke University (Fuqua)
# 9 MIT (Sloan)
# 10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
# 11 Cornell University (Johnson)
# 12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
# 13 NYU (Stern)
# 14 UCLA (Anderson)
# 15 Indiana University (Kelley)
# 16 University of Virginia (Darden)
# 17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
# 18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
# 19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
# 20 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
# 21 Texas - Austin
# 22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
# 23 Emory University (Goizueta)
# 24 Yale University
# 25 University of Southern California (Marshall)
# 26 University of Maryland (Smith)
# 27 University of Washington (Foster)
# 28 Washington University (Olin)
# 29 Georgia Tech
# 30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: Second Tier U.S. Programs |
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What is "Second Tier U.S. Programs"? This is a classification on Business Week website. I am slightly confused here as one of the school I am targeting is under "Second Tier U.S. Programs" category.
Can someone help explain? |
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