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…
Review of Law School Transparency Reports
Law School Transparency (LST) was a project started by a group of lawyers who wanted to make the law school application process fair and transparent. For a long time, the U.S. News ranking has been the guidepost for law school applicants, but LST has a new guide for law school applicants called LST Reports. The…
U.S. News Announces 10 Least Expensive Private Med Schools
Private med schools vary widely in price. The cost of tuition and fees for the 2016-2017 school year for ranked private school in the 2018 Best Medical School Research and Primary Care Rankings range from $32,663 per year at Baylor College of Medicine to $63,890 per year at the Columbia University College of Physicians and…
U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Medical School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report ranked all 140 medical schools fully accredited in 2016 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the 30 schools of osteopathic medicine fully accredited in 2016 by the American Osteopathic Association in 2016. The schools were surveyed in fall 2016 and early 2017, and 118 responded and supplied the data…
U.S. News & World Report’s Best 2018 Law School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has ranked 197 Law Schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) in fall 2016 and early 2017. The rankings are based on a weighted average of the following 12 measures of quality (click here for more on methodology): • Peer assessment score (0.25) • Assessment score by lawyers and judges…
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…
Bloomberg Businessweek Announces the Best International Business Schools of 2016
MBA seekers frequently go abroad in search of the best MBA programs. Having an international MBA often gives a head start to those seeking jobs in the global business world. However, determining which is the right MBA for you outside your home country can be even more daunting than choosing a domestic MBA program. Bloomberg…
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools of 2016
There are more graduate degrees awarded in business annually than in any other field in the US. Dozens of new business schools are accredited every year. Finding the right program for you can be an overwhelming task. Bloomberg’s annual ranking, or more specifically the data collected to create those rankings, may help you wade through…
Poets&Quants 2016 U.S. MBA Ranking
Harvard Business School has taken first place for the sixth time in seven years in the new Poets&Quants ranking of the best MBA programs in the U.S. Stanford is in second place, Chicago Booth is in third, and Northwestern Kellogg and UPenn’s Wharton School are tied for fourth. This is also the sixth out of…
The Economist 2016 Full-Time MBA Rankings
The Economist has released its annual international ranking of full-time MBA programs. Data was collected during spring 2016. 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 class…
Which Medical Schools Receive the Most Applications?
Tens of thousands of students apply to medical school each year. The US News Short List has come out with their ranking of the 10 medical schools with the most applicants for Fall 2015. Data was submitted by 116 ranked medical schools for the annual survey. Here are some of their findings: • Lake Erie…
Med School Selectivity Index Now Up & Running!
Med school applicants can now get a handle on where they’re most competitive by checking out our new Selectivity Index™ for med school. By comparing different criteria such as GPA, MCAT scores, and acceptance rates, you’ll get a clear idea of which schools are best for you and at which schools you have the best…
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…
How to Interpret Medical School Rankings
We’ve all seen the U.S. News report that comes out every year with a list of the top medical schools, and think, man, it’d be pretty freaking awesome to be at the top medical school in the country. Who doesn’t want to be the best, right? What I’ll walk through next is how to understand what those…
U.S. News’ Top 10 Most Selective Medical Schools
U.S. News has released its list of med schools with the lowest acceptance rates – the 10 schools on the list accepted no more than 3.4% of applicants for fall 2015 (and of the 115 ranked medical schools, the average acceptance rate was 6.9% in fall 2015). Yikes! Here’s this year’s list: You’re going to really need to shine…
Busting Two 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:…
U.S. News Top EMBA Programs 2016
Thinking about applying to an Executive MBA program? Let’s see how your target program measures up! Top 10 EMBA Programs: As you can see, there are virtually no changes in the rankings over the last few years, at least in the top 10. Related Resources: • MBA Rankings: What You Need to Know (free guide) • The New…
U.S. News’ 2017 Best Law Schools
Applying to law school? How do your target schools measure up? Let’s see how U.S. News ranks the country’s best law schools. Top 10 Best Law Schools: Notes on Methodology: • 196 accredited law schools were surveys and ranked based on a weighted average of the following 12 measures. • Indicators include: quality assessment (weighted by 0.40…
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