According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Harvard University admitted just 4.6% of its applicants – 1,962 students for the entering class of fall 2018. This is down from 5.2% of applicants last year. Ivy League applicants were recently notified about their admission status. Seven of the eight schools making up the Ivy League…
U.S. News & World Report’s Best 2019 Law School Rankings
As I wrote last year, the most remarkable aspect of this year’s Top 10 is how little it has changed since last year. In fact, spots 1-7 are identical to last year. Last year Michigan and UVA were tied for #8. This year the #8 spot is Michigan’s alone and UVA is tied for #9…
U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Medical School Rankings
In reviewing the med school rankings, they were pretty predictably ho-hum. After all, schools don’t change a ton in one year. Most changes were minor and amounted to a shuffling of the deck chairs. However, there were a couple of big jumps that meant new members in the Top 10 for Research and for Primary…
U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Business Schools/MBA Rankings
The big winners in this year’s U.S. News derby… uh, I mean rankings: • Chicago Booth tied with Harvard and leapfrogged Wharton to snag the top spot for the first time ever. • Michigan Ross jumped 4 places into the top 10. There were also a few “losers” although the losses, much like the wins,…
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…
U.S. News Releases List of 10 Medical Schools with the Most Applicants
U.S. News has released its list of schools with the most applicants for the fall 2016 entering class. These schools received an average of nearly 1,200 applications. There was a total of 696,847 students that applied to enter the fall 2016 class among the 118 ranked med schools that submitted data to U.S. News for…
U.S. News & World Report Announces 2018 Best College Rankings
U.S. News’ methodology focuses on academic excellence. The rankings emphasize student outcomes, such as graduation and freshman retention rates, which carry the most weight at 30%. The top National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges have much higher graduation and freshman retention rates than other schools. Here are some of their findings: • The average…
U.S News Releases Top 10 Most Selective Medical Schools
U.S. News has released its list of med schools with the lowest acceptance rates for the 2016-2017 school year. These 10 schools each accepted 3.5 or less of their applicants. Among the 118 ranked med schools that submitted data, the average acceptance rate was only 5.8%! Here’s this year’s list: *RNP denotes a school that…
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…
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…
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