

Because Poets&Quants, BusinessWeek, and Forbes separately report the best non-U.S. News & World Report, and finally The Financial Times. Its MBA program is rated 2nd nationally by Financial Mail (South Africa). U of Cape Town Graduate School of Business is ranked 71st globally in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2009. How does the The Economist survey compare against the other major rankings? We show you below starting with a comparison to our own survey, then BusinessWeek, Forbes, U.S. It is highest ranked South African and African university in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) (Since 2003). The former measurements are more “politically correct” than they are accurate indicators of quality. That latter metric would be something more appropriate to an evaluation of undergraduate education. The Economist also throws into its ranking formula criteria that has little to do with the quality of education, such as the percentages of international and female students (giving these two questions alone nearly a 17% of the weight in the ranking), the range of overseas exchange programs (a 6.25% weight), and the number of languages offered (also given a 6.25% weight). Because 80% of the ranking is based on unaudited information from business schools, there’s a high likelihood that some data has been fudged. Pro: Takes a global perspective on business school education, ranking 100 business schools in all.Ĭon: The odd results of this ranking raise meaningful credibility issues with the methodology and the accuracy of the data some of these schools are providing to The Economist. Bottom line: This is probably the most flawed, if not silly, of all the MBA rankings cranked out by a major media brand. The highly-regarded Spanish business school, ESADE, is ranked below Belgium’s Vierick Leuven Gent, the Henley Business School in England, and Mannheim Business School in Germany even those these schools don’t even appear on the radar screens of The Financial Times, Forbes, or BusinessWeek. Culverhouse College of Business Executive MBA Program Tuscaloosa & Huntsville. The Economist ranks Spain’s IESE as the best business school in the world.Īs peculiar as those results are, there are even six schools in The Economist’s top 50 that are not even ranked anywhere else. Think of it as a popularity contest for companies: Every year research firm Universum ranks the most desirable employers in the world, based on where MBA candidates say they'd most like to work. preMBA Networking Festival For NEW Admits.Test Prep Resources From Manhattan Prep.Insider’s Guides to the Top Business Schools.Poets&Quants International Top 50 MBA Ranking.Ross School of Business.Ĭollege Consensus says while rankings are never meant to be the “end-all-be-all to finding an MBA program, they can be an excellent place to start the process. 1 school for the on-campus MBA is the University of Michigan Stephen M. The Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of full-time MBA programs is out, and the U.S. In the analysis of the schools, College Consensus said the MBA program at Kelley “packs a powerful punch.” The website says Notre Dame’s MBA is a “time-tested elite business education.”

20.Ĭollege Consensus says it gets a more accurate and comprehensive ranking of each MBA program’s prestige and rank by using multiple publications. The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame comes in at No. The MBA program at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business had the highest placement of schools in the Hoosier State, coming in at No. College Consensus uses publisher and student reviews from annual rankings conducted by Bloomberg, Forbes, U.S. (photo courtesy of Indiana University Kelley School of Business)Ī college ratings website that aggregates school rankings from a variety of publications has just released its list of top MBA on-campus programs for 2022, and two business schools in Indiana made the top 20.
