<p>PWM = Private Wealth Management.
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<p>I know PWM, really sounds like a excellent first job to have out of undergrad. I’m really interested in research, or pwm. Though M&A probably looks better on the resume.</p>
<p>Ya PWM definitely sounds fun. And what does M&A mean?</p>
<p>Mergers & Aquisitions.</p>
<p>Isnt that basically what ibanking is?</p>
<p>Go Richmond, we should have been 1</p>
<p>Yea, basically.</p>
<p>Like I said before the rankings came out. I really wished people looked at these rankings not as 1,2,3,4 but as the individual parts that made up the school. Now when I look at Emory I am still going to say it is the 18th ranked school in the US for business but I will say it has an average of a 1333 SAT, $50k average salary, and has an 11 to 1 ratio. That is why these rankings are useful. i dont’ think Emory is top 5. I think Stern is better than it and so is ross. These rankings shouldn’t be made by 1,2,3,4.</p>
<p>I don’t even know how they got IU that high with the system they used. I am not saying IU isn’t a good school at all but it has an average salary of 44k, below 1200 SATs, and a student to teacher ratio that will be less than you had at high school. I just don’t see how it ranked so high under these criteria but it is still a great school for business. </p>
<h2>My UMD fell from 22 in USnews to 36. What I know is that it has great SATs at 1360 as an average, average salary of a 46,000 and a horrible 21:1 ratio.</h2>
<p>Now why these rankings are good in my opinion. I for one don’t value the numerical ranking at all. Sloan is still number two and berkley is still number 3 but what I get from this is scores for teaching quality, facilities and services, and job placement. Now back to my UMD, it ranked B A B respectively which no doubt pulled down its ranking and I feel that if these later grades are true then it should be. The great thing is that schools are going to get better. If you don’t think that the dean over at UMD is ****ed that the school got a B in teaching quality and a B in job placement not to mention the horrible teach/student ratio you are mistaken. He should be livid. THat is what I expect, what I hope to see is that all the schools improve in the catagories that they messed up in. I think UMD should hire more teachers and better teachers in terms of quality and they should spoof up their career center. That is the true value of these rankings. Comptetition, these rankings actually tell the schools you suck at this and this and any decent school should strive to fix those problems. This benefits the consumer, the students</p>
<p>“I don’t even know how they got IU that high with the system they used. I am not saying IU isn’t a good school at all but it has an average salary of 44k, below 1200 SATs, and a student to teacher ratio that will be less than you had at high school. I just don’t see how it ranked so high under these criteria but it is still a great school for business.”</p>
<p>Do u seriously have to bring this up again? Just go back and read the last few pages.</p>
<p>" I for one don’t value the numerical ranking at all. Sloan is still number two and berkley is still number 3 …"
Why? Why is US News better than this? How exactly are you making your judgements of their judgements?</p>
<p>Hey, has anyone addressed the issue of how these rankings will effect the USNews rankings in the future? I’m hoping for some radical changes!</p>
<p>BusinessWeek rocks! However, I am totally biased (E-M-O-R-Y!).</p>
<p>Most likely it will have no effect on USnews’ ranking. For MBA programs, there are about 6-7 different rankings, each dont’ care about what the other thinks.</p>
<p>USNWR undergrad business ranking isn’t a true ranking. It is simply what a limited number of people “think” about the business program by ranking the school 1-5. USNWR ranking is based on one source of information, which at the end of the day is just a bunch of opinions. It’s unfair to bash Business week for taking a truly hollistic approach to ranking. But what I find most disturbing is cheapseats comment that he will still consider Emory has being ranked 18th. What makes it ranked 18th, oooo that right!, that 1-5 peer assessment ranking by USNWP! It’s time to show Emory respect, and consider the possibilty that schools can improve and rankings can change.</p>
<p>How will it have little effect? Aren’t the USNews rankings somewhat based on other people’s perceptions?</p>
<p>(just saw the previous post; I wholeheartedly agree!)</p>
<p>Well, this Business Week ranking might affect US News undergrad business rankings since US News’ version is based on the Deans of the business schools rating each other’s schools. If a school is highly ranked by Business Week, it might cause the Deans of other schools to look at it in better light and rate it higher than they would have otherwise.</p>
<p>(I just read the 2 previous postings too and agree as well.)</p>
<p>I think the rankings in the business week are just out of wack. Not because of what is high and what isn’t. I don’t care specifically that Hass is low but I do care that I still don’t know how the ranking is even evaluated. Look at miami at 17 and then SMU at 20. SMU is better in ever catagory that BW ranks up there but then it is listed as lower than miami. I don’t get it, maybe someone can shed some light on it. It is still looking like an opinion in the end and this one by a company unless there is more information that will be published in the book. The few catagories or salary, ratios, and SAT scores are GREAT to look at and should be just as useful if not more than the US news rankings but the rankings by BW have question marks in it for me. NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT IS WHERE but moreso because I can’t see why with the data they use they can rank Miami higher than SMU unless they rank the price of the school but nowhere did they say they were going to rank by the price of the school in any of the releases before the official rankings were released.</p>
<p>I think everyone is going to give Emory respect and that shoould be reflected into the next US news ranking. It got straight A+'s and for that it is going to get respect by other institutions. USnews is an opinion of many college reps and they will rank schools like emory and villanova higher. Now if they don’t then maybe then there is a problem but I do think the USnews rankings will be effected due to the fact it is opinion and this seems to have already changed many of your opinions.</p>
<p>Ok first of all, I want to establish the fact that I am NOT trying to downplyad IU in any way…</p>
<p>but, for those people who ‘say’ IU is worthy of the top10 stop…if you had a choice of goin to either IU or (Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon Business programs), which would you choose? Assuming that non-academic factors like money, region, distance, etc. are left out, would you really go to IU over those schools??</p>
<p>well sigh, yea truthat if it was between IU and Berkeley and assuming that non-academic factors were left out i would probaly go to Berkeley but if it was Cornell or Carnegie Mellon than i would probaly choose the school i PERSONALLY like, so in conclusion i would pick IU. i tink at a certain point, when bschools are prety much similar in quality,recruiting etc. than it comes down to the individual person i mean if there was a HUGe disparity obviously the better school would definitely help e.g. ross/wharton/berkeley compared to IU kelley or usc/carngie mellon</p>
<p>Rankings are crazy to begin with - no matter which one you use. They can never capture the nuances of each school - especially the intangibles that make a school special. It’s always better to research the schools you’re interested in, visit them if you can, and see which is a better fit based on what you want out of your college education…both in and outside of the classroom. Rankings may give you some direction when it comes to picking a college, but they aren’t the be all, end all.</p>
<p>^ exactly globalist, THAT is what students should really do rather than rely on the rankings. everyone is different so everyone should look for that school tat matches them.</p>