Which MBA?

Hi One should weight accordingly...how many of these MBA grads were in management at all of these institutions that were hammered during the world financial collape and how many were at the banks and investment banks trading and selling those products involved? I think we would lose a few out of the top 20 (at least from the US)..

One is left with the inevitable nonsense in-nonsense out with rankings. Those at the top are obvious then you get into the mixture of the meaningless orderings that come from flawed methods. Anyone with any understanding of b-schools would laugh at the suggestion that Mannheim, Hult, Bath and UCD belong in the same league as Duke, UCLA, Michigan, Yale and Insead (would a student with the choice of UCLA and Bath, choose Bath? or HEC and Northwestern choose HEC?). For anyone trying to understand what all of this is about and why rankings are dangerous look at the the articles in the European Management Review, Volume 5, Issue 4 (Winter 2008).

OK, clearly there are at least two commenters who were able to find the actual full list of the rankings. Care to clue the rest of us in as to exactly where they are? I've been going in circles for 15 minutes.

I am lost too. Where are schools 11 to whatever? Where does Oral Roberts University rank? I borrowed my last dollar getting this prestigous degree.

come on,where is the list.I want have a close look.

India, world's second fastest growing economy has only 1 school in the list, only IIM A in the list!!!!
Shame IIM B,C and ISB Hyd.

if I am not able to see the full list? how could i make a comment?

I can't find the full list of the rankings. Why does he hide the rankings?

You can find the list by clicking on the link: Which MBA? (at the top). I commented on the University of Phoenix and Harvard University there.

The US, Britain and Spain seem to be well represented in this list. Perhaps the best thing we could do to restore competitiveness with the Far East is to shut the Business schools down and move them to Asia. Voila! a return to prosperity for the West and bankrupt economies for the East.

The fun is that you get to experience only ONE, and hardly anyone can give a first-hand feedback on two or more b-schools. So, we have to depend on these well-structured and scientific surveys that, incidentally, don't seem to agree much with each other.

India has an ironic situation. It's easier to get into any one of the top-10 ranked schools than into any of the top-3 IIMs (IIM-A, IIM-B and IIM-C). Two hundred thousand candidates compete for some seven hundred seats across these three institutes, which means an application-to-acceptance ratio of less than 0.5% !

The top I-Banks and consulting companies recruit from these campuses for positions worldwide as their alumni have proved their mettle. For example, Indra Nooyi, of Pepsico, is an alumna of IIM-C; and C. K Prahlad is an alumnus of IIM-A. Many of the profs teaching at the top-10 B-schools in this list are also alumni of these IIMs.

And yet, they are not in the list. World-class alumni from nowhere-near-world-class institutes?

latinamerica is far away respect US and Europe, for this reason i studied in ESADE business, a jesuist business school in europe. Good option.

I am checking the MBA ranking in Europe. Who knows if there is somewhere to check the scholarships application?

Henley has outranked LBS???? Impossible. Let's get pragmatic. There has to have been some critical judgement/weightage errors here.

This ranking is ridiculous, 80% of the top 20 school aren't known outside of the US (or their country) at all.

These new rankings are refreshing to see without any doubt. However, I am quite surprised that The Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario (aka UWO), was not even included for Canada. Was there a mistake, or has the Ivey school taken a slide since it was known to be one of, if not, Canada's best?

This ranking is quite amazing, but one should not look at well ranked European business schools with despise.

Another commentator thinks choosing between Northwestern (ranked 16) and HEC (ranked 9) is obvious: any well-informed student would go to Northwestern. In fact this commentator is, I think, misinformed because American schools are far more visible and known.

HEC is far more prestigious in France than Northwestern in the United States, and it is more difficult to be admitted at the Grande Ecole program of HEC for a French student than Oxbridge. For this program for example, the school recruits its students in dedicated two-year preparatory classes, has an admission rate below 5% within this pool and a yield of 98% after a thirty hours of competitive entrance exams. Students of HEC or Ecole Polytechnique in France are not asked their gpa when they apply to bulge bracket banks or consulting firms. I do not think this is the case for Northwestern! French top “Grandes Ecoles” (HEC for business, Polytechnique for engineering, Ecole Normale Supérieure for sciences) recruit together less than 0.2% of a generation.

Have you looked at the alumni of HEC before comparing it to Northwestern? Dominique Strauss Khan (IMF managing director), Pascal Lamy (WTO president), a score of leading French politicians… According to a study (http://www.ensmp.fr/Actualites/PR/EMP-ranking.html), 8 CEOs of Forbes Global Fortune 500 companies (AXA, BNP Paribas, EADS, Veolia, Foncière Euris, PPR, Lafarge, L’Oréal, … Unibail-Rodamco) are alumni of HEC Paris, whereas only 4 of them are alumni of the whole Northwestern University which has a 5 times as many students !

Of course HEC’s prestigious degree is not the MBA but what French people call the “Grande Ecole”, yet thinking that Northwestern is obviously a better choice is being misinformed.

Yet thinking HEC’s MBA should be ranked below LBS or INSEAD seems clever…

Although I should be skeptical of the meaning of this survey, I can't help but feel proud that my school, JMSB (Concordia U in Canada) made the list!