This year’s MBA Selectivity Index™ is here! Three years ago, 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…
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 –…
U.S. News Releases 2020 MBA Rankings
Many students apply to grad school believing that another degree will improve their professional options and salaries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’s employment forecast published in the summer of 2018, they may be right. The BLS forecast the jobs in master’s-level professions would rise by close to 17% between 2016-2026, and jobs…
Top 10 or Bust: Dispelling 2 MBA Myths
Here are two comments that I get all the time from applicants – two related MBA myths that absolutely require busting: Myth #1: Once you attend an MBA program outside the Top 10, it doesn’t matter which school you attend, so you may as well go to the cheapest one you get into. Myth #2:…
Financial Times Releases 2019 Global MBA Rankings
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…
Times Higher Education (THE) Unveils Its Long-Awaited 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…
Poets & Quants Releases 2018 MBA Rankings
Poets & Quants has released their 9th annual MBA ranking. P&Q integrates the five most recent rankings from the top publications in the world: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist to come up with their rankings. Each source is ranked based on P&Q’s determination of their credibility….
Bloomberg Businessweek Announces Best U.S. Business Schools
Bloomberg Businessweek conducted its 2018 survey of 10,473 MBA students, 15,050 alumni, and 3,698 recruiters about their business school experiences and their goals. Their answers, in addition to information about salary and job-placement data from each school, combined to create each school’s rank. The ranking of non-U.S. programs will be released in December 2018….
Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs
MBA programs are ranked in a variety of ways: by GPA and GMAT/GRE scores, salaries earned by grads, and other metrics. Pitchbook Data, Inc. has devised a ranking that is based on the number of graduates who are entrepreneurs, and how much venture funding they have raised. There were multiple criteria that went into these…
U.S. News Rankings: Everything I Ever Wanted to Know (But was Afraid to Ask) [Episode 265]
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…
Stanford Takes Top Spot in 2018 Financial Times 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…
Poets & Quants Releases 2017 Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs
Poets & Quants has just released their 2017 ranking of Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs, and the holder of the top spot may come as a surprise. For the first time ever, Wharton has overthrown Harvard Business school to take the top spot in the Poets & Quants composite rating. This is just the second…
Bloomberg Businessweek Announces Best Business Schools in 2017
You’re getting ready to apply to a full-time MBA program, but which program will best prepare you for job success? Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2017 ranking goes straight to that issue. The Employer Survey measures recruiter opinions on how well MBA programs prepare their graduates with relevant skills. The Student Survey tracks feedback from students about how…
The Economist 2017 Full-Time MBA Rankings
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…
Forbes Releases 2017 Ranking of Best Business Schools
Is it worth it to pursue an MBA, especially when the cost of tuition and lost wages can be more than $300,000? Most prospective MBAs apply to school planning to make a career change and/or obtain a higher salary. Forbes’ tenth biennial rankings of the best U.S. and international business schools are based exclusively on…
Accepted’s Selectivity Index: Are You Asleep When You Apply?
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…
U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Business Schools (MBA & EMBA) Rankings
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…
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…
