2008 Businessweek Rankings

College Majors Business Majors
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<p>It was a “countdown” chat businessweek online was having which explains why the order is backwards.</p>

<li>Rutgers University</li>
<li>University of Miami</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>University of San Diego</li>
<li>University of Florida
45 Loyola College Maryland
44 University of Georgia
43 University of Maryland
42 Boston University
41 Case Western</li>
<li>Suny Binghamton-the biggest jump this year</li>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Penn State</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Baylor
35 Santa Clara
34 Northeastern
33 University of Washington
32 Texas Christian
31 Texas A&M</li>
<li>Bentley</li>
<li>William & Mary</li>
<li>Babson</li>
<li>Fordham</li>
<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>Miami University</li>
<li>Southern Methodist</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Richmond</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>Washington University</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Villanova</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Texas-Austin</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>Brigham Young</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
</ol>

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<p>Big differences in the top 15:</p>

<p>UC Berkeley dropped from #3 to #11
Cornell jumped from #10 to #4
Georgetown dropped from #11 to #18
Notre Dame went from #7 to #3</p>

<p>According to the BW chat admins, University of Virginia was VERY VERY close to Upenn this year, where last year there was a significant difference between those top 2 schools.</p>

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<p>Such huge jumps/drops don’t make sense. Either they were wrong last year, wrong this year, or wrong both years.</p>

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<p>noooo emory dropped one! Not that it really matters much, but I’m just saying.</p>

<p>Thanks for the update/list.</p>

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<p>Oh No!!!</p>

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<p>are these undergrad rankings or graduate programs? I am assuming undergraduate because I don’t see Columbia (which doesn’t have a undergraduate business program.)</p>

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<p>These are the undergraduate rankings.
Refer to this:
[Business</a> School Rankings and Profiles: EMBA, Executive Education, MBA, Part-time MBA, Distance MBA](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>

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<p>Whatever happened to CUNY Baruch, last year #41, this year not on the list? lol</p>

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<p>Has the world gone MAD!?!?</p>

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<p>This shows what they are looking at when ranking:
[Undergrad</a> - BSchools](<a href=“http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool/]Undergrad”>http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool/)</p>

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<p>BusinessWeek has the worst Rankings. USNWR is better, but I wouldn’t worry TOO much about rankings anyways.</p>

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<p>would u guys choose Santa Clara or UCLA for getting finance jobs (corporate, asset, equity, banking, etc) (obviously you’d do biz-econ at UCLA)</p>

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<p>I would definitely choose UCLA. If you can go to UCLA, Stanford, or Berkeley, I would go there. Santa Clara and USD are other good options for Finance though.</p>

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<p>“If u can go to UCLA, Stanford, or Berkeley”
easier said than done :stuck_out_tongue:
but thanks for input !</p>

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<p>Well, you asked what you would choose, so you made it seem like you could get in to UCLA.</p>

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<p>I always discount these rankings because (a) this isn’t something BusinessWeek has been doing for a long time (as opposed to the USNews), and (b) because BusinessWeek isn’t really a good magazine. Forbes is much, much more legitimate than BusinessWeek is in my mind–and I essentially consider Forbes to be the People magazine of the business world. I guess that would make BusinessWeek Tiger Beat.</p>

<p>Then again, the WSJ and Economist b-school rankings aren’t particularly good either, while the FT rankings are alright, so I’m not sure if the legitimacy of the institution behind the ranking matters all that much.</p>

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<p>USNews is a far less credible publication than BusinessWeek. USNews started to release rankings to make $$$.</p>

<p>“Forbes is much, much more legitimate than BusinessWeek”</p>

<p>LOL.</p>

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<p>

I never said they were more credible than anything. But they’ve been doing this for a while, and in general their rankings are considered to be the standard.

Okay, well, maybe not anymore. Forbes has only been getting worse and worse. Neither of them are particularly fantastic, though.</p>

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<p>In general, I wouldn’t pay too much attention to rankings. I know which b-schools are good and which are not. Between the different publications, there are differences in the rankings, but I would never take the rankings to say that this #2 schools is better than the #3 school. They fluctuate too often. Forbes does a fairly good job with making their rankings (although they did recently rank Tuck as number 1, not that Tuck is bad I actually have somewhat of a biased towards Tuck and Dartmouth but it is just something I never see in rankings. they are generally around 7 or 8) and giving the data which they used to make the rankings. I almost feel like someone just picked which b-schools were there favorites and wrote Businessweek Rankings at the top.</p>

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<p>fyi the usnews rankings dont weigh in many factors…they just consider what other people who have heard of it rank it. businessweek considers many factors so i would say theyre more credible</p>