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April 18, 2022

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How Do Your Top Choice MBA Programs Rank in Accepted’s Selectivity Index?

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This year’s MBA Selectivity Index™ is here! Accepted developed the MBA Selectivity Index to help you apply realistically and effectively to business school. The index takes the most recent U.S. News rankings data and reflects the schools’ average GPA, test scores, and acceptance rates so that you can assess the relative difficulty of acceptance. You… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / GMAT, MBA Rankings, researching mba programs, Stanford GSB

April 7, 2022

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Top 10 or Bust: Dispelling 2 MBA Myths

Dispelling 2 MBA Myths

I constantly hear two comments from applicants related to MBA admissions. Both of them are myths that I want to bust once and for all: Myth #1: Once you attend an MBA program outside the Top 10, it doesn’t matter which school it is, so you may as well go to the least expensive one… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / MBA Rankings, MBA ROI, researching mba programs

March 31, 2022

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U.S. News MBA Rankings 2023 [Full-Time & Part-Time]

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Chicago Booth and Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) share the #1 spotlight in U.S. News’ Best Business Schools of 2023 rankings, released March 29. The metrics for the rankings are based on career placement success, student excellence and qualitative assessments by experts. MBA rankings are studied voraciously by applicants, students, and alumni but remain controversial.  Notable changes… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth Tuck, Harvard Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Part time MBA, researching mba programs, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, US News, Wharton, Yale SOM

February 28, 2022

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Do MBA Rankings Matter?

Do MBA Rankings Matter

You’ve defined your goals and assessed your qualifications. Now it’s time to move on to the program research stage of the MBA admissions process. There is a sea of information out there: rankings, books, MBA program websites, MBA fairs, Poets & Quants, student and adcom blogs, school open houses, your neighbor’s sister’s boyfriend’s dad –… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA Rankings, researching mba programs

February 17, 2022

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Financial Times Ranks Wharton as #1 in 2022 Rankings

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The Financial Times has released its global rankings of the best MBA programs and has considerably shuffled the deck. Several top-ranked programs fell several notches, while others rose considerably. For the first time since 2011, Wharton has returned to its status as #1 in FT’s list.  Other programs that made giant strides in the rankings… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, HEC, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, SDA Bocconi, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, UVA Darden, Washington Foster School of Business, Washington Olin, Wharton, Yale SOM

April 30, 2020

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GMAC Requests Putting MBA Rankings on Hold

GMAC requests putting MBA rankings on hold

The leaders of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) and two accreditation agencies (AACSB and EFMO) in coordination with MBA CSEA, have asked ranking institutions to stop their work and postpone the publication of their ranking lists due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In addition to giving reasons for the delay, the letter also underscores the… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / COVID-19 MBA, GMAC, MBA Rankings

February 4, 2020

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Financial Times Ranks Harvard as #1 in 2020 Global MBA Ranking

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Harvard Business School has taken the top spot away from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Financial Times 2020 global MBA ranking.  Although the Financial Times ranking is designed to favor non-U.S. programs, 15 of the top 25 MBA programs are based in the U.S. This result comes despite the decline in applications to… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, ESADE, Financial Times, Harvard Business School, HEC, HKUST, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, London Business School, MBA Rankings, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Oxford Said, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UVA Darden, Wharton, Yale SOM

December 16, 2019

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Big Changes in Economist 2019 MBA Rankings

Big changes in Economist 2019 MBA Rankings

  Chicago’s Booth School of Business remaining at the top of The Economist’s ranking of the world’s top MBA programs for the second year in a row is only one of a few stable things in this year’s ranking, according to the Poets & Quants website. This is the seventh time Booth has taken the… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Georgia Tech Scheller, Harvard Business School, HEC, IESE, INSEAD, London Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, SDA Bocconi, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, UVA Darden, Warwick, Washington Foster School of Business, Wharton, Yale SOM

November 27, 2019

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Poets & Quants Announces 2019-2020 MBA Rankings

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Poets & Quants just released its 2019-2020 rankings of the top 100 U.S. MBA programs. There were some minor changes in the top 10  – most prominently is Stanford GSB climbing two spots, passing Harvard Business School and UPenn Wharton, to claim the #1 position. It’s the second time in 10 years that Stanford has claimed the… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Emory Goizueta, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, Indiana Kelley, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan Flagler, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UVA Darden, Washington Foster School of Business, Wharton, Yale SOM

November 15, 2019

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Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs

Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs

Poets & Quants has just released their inaugural rankings for the top MBA programs for entrepreneurs, and Washington University’s Olin Business School tops the list. 20.7% of its graduates from 2016-2018 launched companies within three months of graduation, and has a whopping $1 million in annual funding available for student entrepreneurs. By comparison, the second… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / Babson, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Emory Goizueta, entrepreneurship, ESADE, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, Indiana Kelley, INSEAD, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, researching mba programs, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan Flagler, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UVA Darden, Washington Olin, Wharton, Yale SOM

November 6, 2019

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Highlights of Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2019 MBA Rankings

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Bloomberg Businessweek released its 2019 MBA rankings this week, and the administration at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business is celebrating! Tuck rose an astonishing 17 places in this year’s ranking to take the #2 spot just under Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. This is Stanford’s second year in a row in 1st place. Who… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Harvard Business School, MBA Rankings, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UVA Darden, Wharton

September 26, 2019

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Forbes 2019 Best Business Schools: Booth Tops the List

Forbes 2019 Best Business Schools

Forbes has released its 2019 rankings of full-time MBA programs in the U.S. and one-year programs internationally. These rankings are based on responses from more than 100 schools and 17,500 alumni around the world. Graduates’ earnings in their first five years after graduation from business school were compared to their opportunity cost, which gave Forbes… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / Cambridge Judge, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, ESADE, Forbes, Harvard, IESE, IMD, Indian School of Business, INSEAD, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, Oxford Said, Stanford GSB, Wharton

June 25, 2019

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A Conversation About Today’s MBA Marketplace [Episode 317]

Podcast interview with Marco De Novellis

Interview with Marco De Novellis, editor at BusinessBecause [Show Summary] In today’s podcast, we hear from Marco De Novellis, the editor of BusinessBecause, a company that takes seriously the approaching of being a “champion of applicants,” educating them about everything they need to know about the MBA application process and how to approach it. Marco… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, MBA Admissions / international student, MBA Rankings, podcast

May 31, 2019

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MBA Rankings: Why Should I Care?

In March, U.S. News released its Best Business Schools Ranking. The big question that follows, of course, is: “So what?” Check out Linda’s 1-minute answer to find out why the rankings matter (and if they matter at all). We’d love to hear your thoughts about the value of b-school rankings. Just leave us a comment below to… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / MBA Rankings, MBA Video Tips

December 20, 2018

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U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Business Schools (MBA & EMBA) Rankings

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U.S. News & World Report surveyed all 471 MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International in fall 2016 and early 2017. Of these, 377 responded and 131 were ranked (those that submitted enough of the necessary data on their full-time MBA programs that were needed to calculate the rankings). The… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Chicago Booth EMBA, Columbia Business School, Columbia EMBA, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke EMBA, Harvard Business School, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, MIT Sloan EMBA, Northwestern Kellogg, Northwestern Kellogg EMBA, NYU Stern, NYU Stern EMBA, Ross EMBA, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UC Berkeley Haas EMBA, UCLA Anderson EMBA, US News, Wharton, Wharton EMBA

December 20, 2018

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Accepted’s Selectivity Index: Are You Asleep When You Apply?

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   I once heard a story about a gentleman who was about to purchase a certain piece of land with the intention of building a school on that property. It was wartime, and the theater of war was rapidly approaching the region in which he and the property were located. A friend heard about his intended… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / law school rankings, MBA Rankings, med school rankings

December 20, 2018

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Stanford Takes Top Spot in 2018 Financial Times MBA Rankings

Stanford Takes Top Spot in 2018 FT MBA Rankings

Eight years is a long time to wait, but that’s how long it took for Stanford Graduate School of Business to once again be named the best MBA experience in the world, according to the Financial Times. This is only the second time in 23 years that Stanford has taken the top spot. Stanford replaced… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / MBA Rankings, Stanford GSB

December 16, 2018

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Times Higher Education (THE) Unveils Its Long-Awaited Best Global MBA Programs

Times Higher Education Unviels its Best Global MBA Programs

Times Higher Education (THE) in partnership with the Wall Street Journal recently released its analyzed reams of data about graduate management education and produced a ranking of “high-achieving global MBA programs.” The study ranked the programs in 20 separate performance indicators, leading to an aggregate score indicating the strength of each program and school. These… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Cornell Johnson, Duke Fuqua, MBA Rankings, Purdue Krannert, Stanford GSB, UVA Darden, Vanderbilt Business School, Yale SOM

July 3, 2018

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U.S. News Rankings: Everything I Ever Wanted to Know (But was Afraid to Ask) [Episode 265]

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U.S. News Answers All Your Rankings Questions [Summary] Normally, when U.S.-based applicants talk about “the top programs,” especially when they refer to the top X, as in the top 10 or the top 20, they are referring to U.S. News Rankings, the granddaddy of educational rankings. Today we’ll hear from U.S. News Executive Editor, Anne… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / MBA Rankings, podcast, Rankings, US News

November 28, 2017

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The Economist 2017 Full-Time MBA Rankings

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The Economist has released its annual international ranking of full-time MBA programs based on data collected during spring 2017. Two surveys were used: 1) The first was completed by schools with eligible programs which covered quantitative subjects and accounted for 80% of the ranking. 2) Current MBA students and a school’s most recent graduating MBA… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Dartmouth Tuck, Harvard Business School, MBA Rankings, Northwestern Kellogg, Rankings, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UVA Darden, Wharton

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