This year’s Financial Times’ Top 10 Business Schools is made up of the same names as last year’s list. Although Stanford Graduate School of Business has stayed in the top spot, there was a lot of shuffling around of the other top 9. Most notably, Harvard Business School rose to the #2 spot after falling…
FT Releases 2017 Global MBA Rankings
Financial Times has released its 2017 Global MBA Ranking of the best 100 programs. These rankings are based on surveys of business schools and their graduates of 2013. MBAs are evaluated according to alumni career progression, the school’s idea generation, and the diversity of students and faculty. Following are some of the findings of the…
GMAC Releases Tool That Organizes, Compares & Explains Major Rankings
Rankings have always been a mixed blessing – they provide so much valuable information, but if you don’t know how to analyze or use that data properly, then best case scenario, they become worthless, and worst case scenario, they become harmful. GMAC has just released a new tool, User’s Guide to Full-Time MBA Rankings, that…
FT’s Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship
This year the Financial Times published a ranking that is a spin-off from their 2016 global MBA ranking and features the top 25 MBA programs for entrepreneurship (last year they published only the top 10). The rankings: 1. Stanford GSB 2. Babson Olin 3. UVA Darden 4. Dartmouth Tuck 5. UCLA Anderson 6. UC Berkeley…
2016 Financial Times Global MBA Rankings
Here are some highlights from the Financial Times‘ top 20 global MBA programs (with a few points on women in business school): • This is the first time that a one-year MBA program (INSEAD) has taken the #1 spot. The other 4 schools in the top 5 remain the same as last year, each pushed…
2015 Financial Time Best Global MBA Programs
Let’s see how our favorite global MBA programs fared in the 2015 Financial Times rankings. (See the full chart on the FT site here.) Last year, there were some very dramatic leaps and falls. This year there are fewer. Here are some highlights: • UC Berkeley Haas is the only newcomer to the top 10,…
FT’s Best Global MBA Programs in 2014
The Financial Times released its 2014 global MBA rankings! Read on for the list, the facts, the analysis, and the sources. The List: 2014 Rank 3 Year (Avg) School Country 1 1 Harvard Business School USA 2 2 Stanford Graduate School of Business USA 3 4 London Business School UK 4 3 U Penn Wharton USA…
FT Ranks 2013 EMBA Programs
FT Top 15 2013 Global EMBA Programs (last year’s rank in parentheses) 1. Kellogg/Hong Kong UST Business School (1) 2. Tsinghua University/INSEAD (4) 3. Columbia/London Business School (2) 4. Trium HEC Paris/LSE/NYU Stern (3) 5. UCLA Anderson/National University of Singapore (5) 6. Washington University Olin (9) 7. Wharton (8) 8. Duke Fuqua (16) 9. Chicago…
Funding Options for International MBA Students
A recent Financial Times article discusses the numerous alternative lending options available for foreign b-school students. Because international loans from schools have been on the decline since the financial crash a few years ago and an increase in international default risk, international students have been turning to non-school and non-government loans. Here are a few…
Financial Times 2012 Rankings Are Out!
The Financial Times published its annual ranking of MBA programs today. And the top 10 are: Stanford (3 year average: #3; last year tied for #4) Harvard (3 year average: #3; last year’s #3) Wharton (3 year average: #2; last year tied for #1) London Business School (3 year average: #2; last year tied for #1) Columbia (3…
The Spiced Up MBA
When one applies to business school they typically worry about whether they have enough work experience under their belt, or whether they can compete with Ivy League graduates and 4.0 GPAs. But statistics show that since the financial crisis MBA programs are no longer looking for cookie cutter students. “Diversity” is the name of…
4 Ways You Should NOT Use the MBA Rankings
You’ll find loads of articles online enumerating the ways in which you can use the MBA rankings to your benefit. Most of these articles are found on the ranking websites. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t trust what you read on BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, or U.S. News – after all, the rankings do…
MBA Admissions News Roundup
The Daily Pennsylvanian celebrates the fact that 45% of Wharton’s incoming MBA class of 2013 will be women. This number represents quite an achievement—a 5% increase from the classes in the past two years and the highest percentage in Wharton’s history. Harvard has also reached a new record this year with women representing 39%…
Change is Good
A recent survey of 2007 MBA graduates by The Financial Times suggests that changing jobs is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, a bit of change is good. Very good. The survey, which polled alumni of business schools across the world from the graduating class of 2007, shows that MBA graduates who were…
The Role of Women in the Business World
A lot has been written lately about equality and inequality in the business world, specifically addressing the question: has the past decade seen MBA programs and corporate businesses making more room for women or less? Businessweek recently reported in “B-School Gender Mix Changing, Slowly” that a growing number of women are attending business school. …
International Apps Down at Top U.S. Business Schools
A few days ago we reported on the increase of graduate applications at U.S. institutions from international students. There was one field of study, however, that didn’t see such optimistic numbers—the field of business education. According to the Council of Graduate Schools press release and to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the 25…
Is Canada the New International MBA Hub?
According to a Financial Post article, more international students are applying to Canadian business schools than ever before. For example, the University of Victoria’s business program received only 61 international applications in 2008; in 2009 it received 125. Students from India, China, and now, due to increased political instability, the Middle East, are considering…
Top 20 EMBA Programs in North America
Top executive MBA programs in America are charging an arm and a leg —is it worth it? That’s the topic of a recent CNN Money Fortune/Poets & Quants article, “Executive MBAs: Great, if you can foot the bill,” which reports that if people are willing to pay the sky-high prices for an EMBA degree, they’ll…
Pondering Paris? HEC MBA Admissions Q&A This Week!
Paris, one of the world’s most beloved cities, and leading global and international business center, has much to offer MBA candidates. Ranked as one of the top 20 global business schools by the Financial Times, HEC Paris takes full advantage of its location to provide a comprehensive global business education to its internationally diverse student…
Michigan Ross Appoints New Dean
Alison Davis-Blake will be moving from Minnesota to Michigan this summer when she leaves her position as dean at U. of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and takes a new post as dean of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “I am very excited for the opportunity to lead the Ross School of Business,” Davis-Blake says…
