Economist Magazine MBA Program Rankings

BedHead
Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:33:29 +0000

Berkeley-Haas stats are looking really good. No wonder why it has been ranked #3, although I think HBS, SGSB and Wharton should be above it in this ranking, or any ranking for MBA for that matter. Dartmouth should be inferior to Haas though as the data suggest.



Each ranking emphasizes different things. Some will put Haas at the top, others Tuck at the top and always Harvard/Stanford/Wharton and a couple of others are going to be in the mix. The changes are owing to weightings and probably the need to change things up and not be obvious.

I think in the top 3, it’s kind of looking like this these days:

Harvard

Stanford

More or less tied: Booth/Chicago; Haas/Berkeley; Wharton/Penn

Throw in a host of other schools like Kellogg/NW, Tuck/Dartmouth, and MIT/Sloan and you round out the top 10.

At that echelon, who cares? It’s about where you want to live and cultural fit. Perhaps also what you want to do.