What do the MBA rankings mean to you? What will they teach you? Should you trust them? Are MBA rankings REALLY important? In our guide, MBA Rankings: What You Need to Know, newly updated and expanded for 2015, Linda Abraham will walk you through the process of locating the rankings, sifting through them for the…
U.S. News Most Selective Med Schools
U.S. News has released its list of med schools with the smallest acceptance rates – the 10 schools on the list accepted an average of just 2.7 percent of their applicants. Here’s this year’s list: *RNP denotes an institution that is ranked in the bottom one-fourth of all medical and osteopathic schools Need Help polishing your applications?…
More BW Rankings: Best International B-Schools 2014
I hope you didn’t think we were done with this year’s Businessweek rankings! Next up…the top 20 international MBA programs. Here are some highlights: • There are 2 new schools to the top 10 this year, both of which were unranked in 2012: ESMT (3rd place) and Cambridge Judge (6th place). • ESADE fell dramatically from…
PayScale: How Much Can You Earn, and How to Earn It?
Trying to figure out if grad school will pay off? How much you’ll earn with your career of choice? Which graduate program will position you to for the best payoff? If so, tune in to our conversation with Lydia Frank of PayScale to find out how to get the stats and info that you need…
What’s an MBA Really Worth?
This is the question tackled in a recent Poets & Quants article in which John Byrne presents PayScale data provided exclusively for P&Q. In the analysis, PayScale calculates the estimated median pay and bonuses (not including stock-based compensation, retirement benefits, or non-cash benefits like healthcare) of graduates from the top 50 U.S. MBA programs from…
New LinkedIn University Rankings
Exciting news! LinkedIn just launched new rankings that connect prospective students to universities based on career outcomes. Here’s how they did it (in their words) using software developers as an example: 1. First, we identified the top companies where software developers are choosing to work. 2. Next, we found people on LinkedIn who work as software developers and…
Introducing NEW Consulting CEO Rankings
Firmsconsulting just released new rankings that compare the performance of CEOs from six top consulting firms, McKinsey & Co., BCG, Bain & Co., Deloitte S&O, PwC Strategy& and Roland Berger. Each Sunday, the rankings will be republished based on new performance findings. Here are some points to keep in mind: 1. How a CEO fares…
Top 10 Colleges with the Highest Paid Grads
Forbes just released some rankings on the colleges whose graduates earn the most money. We’ll provide two charts below – one of colleges with high earning grads with bachelor’s degrees only, and one of colleges with high earning grads who went on to complete additional degrees. Colleges with the Highest Paid Grads (BA Only): Colleges…
Vault’s 2015 Banking Rankings
The following banks were rated based on the issues that matter to bankers: prestige, hours, compensation, work-life balance, firm culture, overall satisfaction, business outlook, and other “quality of life” categories. For each of these parameters, other than prestige, the banking professionals rated their own place of work. They rated other intuitions and not their own…
Top 10 Colleges with the Highest Paid Grads
Think you need a grad degree to rake in the big bucks? Not if you’re lucky enough to land a job after graduating from one of the schools on the list below! A recent Forbes article pooled data from a survey released by NerdScholar. Note: The list here only includes schools that released their salary data…
B-Schools with the Highest ROIs
When determining an MBA’s return on investment (ROI), it makes a big difference whether you’re considering the short-term or long-term gain. The Economist recently released data that measures the ROI (measured by taking the difference between pre- and post-MBA salaries and dividing it by the total cost of the program, including forgone salary plus tuition…
Top 10 B-Schools with the Most Satisfied Graduates
Forbes surveyed 17,000 alumni at 100 schools on their satisfaction regarding the following three areas: their current job, their career preparedness, and their MBA education. 4,600 alumni responded. The following ten schools received the highest combined rates of satisfaction: Stanford GSB UC Berkeley Haas Carnegie Mellon Tepper Michigan State Broad Indiana Kelley Dartmouth Tuck Duke…
The 10 Medical Schools with the Lowest Acceptance Rates
U.S. News newest rankings highlight the med schools that are the toughest to get into. The average acceptance rate for the following ten med schools was 3% in 2013. Rank School/State Acceptance Rate # of Acceptances 1 Morehouse School of Medicine / GA 1.6% 70 2 Mayo Medical School / MN 1.8% 83 3 Stanford…
Consulting at Top MBA Programs
Entrepreneurship is the sexy post-MBA job, but the reality is that less than 5% of grads from top MBA programs start a business at graduation. Per GMAC’s just released Prospective Students Survey Report, 34% of all graduate business students seek consulting positions after they earn their degree. My suspicion is that the figure is even…
10 Medical Schools with the Most Applicants
Medical school application volume was at an all time high in 2013, up 6.1% to 48,014. Below are some more fun facts about U.S. News’ new rankings, followed by the list of top 10 med schools with the most applicants. • The 10 med schools that got the most applicants in 2013 were all private schools…
2015 Best Law Schools by U.S. News
Ready for this year’s U.S. News best law school rankings? Let’s jump right in! 2015 Best Law Schools 1. Yale 2. Harvard 3. Stanford 4. Columbia 4. Chicago 6. NYU 7. UPenn 8. UVA 9. UC Berkeley 10. Duke 2015 Best Part-Time Law Schools 1. Georgetown 2. George Washington University 3. Fordham University 4. George Mason University 5. Loyola Marymount University 6. University Connecticut 7. Lewis & Clark College – Northwestern 7. Southern…
2015 Best Medical Schools by U.S. News
Ready to see how U.S. News ranked the best medical schools in the U.S.? Here we go! 2015 Best Medical Schools for Research 1. Harvard 2. Stanford 3. Johns Hopkins 4. UC San Francisco 4. UPenn Perelman 6. Washington University (St. Louis) 7. Yale 8. Columbia 8. Duke 10. University of Washington 2015 Best Medical Schools for Primary Care 1. University of Washington 2. UNC Chapel Hill…
Businessweek’s Top 20 2013 Executive MBA Programs
Top 20 2013 EMBA Programs (2011’s rank is in parentheses) 1. Northwestern Kellogg (3) 2. Chicago Booth (1) 3. SMU Cox (7) 4. Pennsylvania Wharton (9) 5. UCLA Anderson (5) 6. Columbia (2) 7. IE (4) 8. USC Marshall (8) 9. Ohio State Fisher (14) 10. Michigan Ross (6) 11. IESE (12) 12. UNC Kenan-Flagler (11) 13. UVA Darden (N/A) 14. Duke Fuqua (10) 15. Notre Dame Mendoza (27) 16. INSEAD (18)…
Businessweek Announces Top Part-Time MBA Programs for 2013
Top 20 2013 Best Part-Time MBA Programs (2011’s rank in parentheses) 1. CMU Tepper (3) 2. UC Berkeley Haas (5) 3. SMU Cox (7) 4. UCLA Anderson (2) 5. Elon Love (1) 6. Loyola Marymount (13) 7. Rice Jones (6) 8. Chicago Booth (17) 9. Rollins Crummer (44) 10. Michigan Ross (9) 11. USC Marshall (16) 12. Lehigh University (15) 13. UNC-Greensboro Bryan (50) 14. Emory Goizueta (23) 15. Washington…
Which Universities Contribute the Most to VC-Backed Entrepreneurship?
PitchBook did a study that ranks universities around the world based on the number of graduates who have founded U.S. companies with VC-funding from 2010 to 2013. The idea is that a school’s ranking success shouldn’t just reflect its scores or its sports teams, but that it should reflect how actively the schools are producing…
