I chose Michigan over_______

bahamutscale
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:21:02 +0000

Freshman and sophomores aren’t included in the annual survey



I concede that I misinterpreted the Ross employment profile. Thanks for the correction.



On the whole, I agree with you that Wharton is superior to Ross (by far)



Again, my stats were, as you stated, a little distorted in supporting my conclusion. I typed and compiled everything from both sites quickly for a message board reply so bear with me. I’m not trying to be anal about the details.

However, the point I was carrying out was that Wharton is a better school by a wide margin from her competitions. Some prospectives seem to really get this notion that Ross is almost equal to Wharton. My conclusion remains resolute: Wharton is by a long distance the premier business institution. Whether my supporting evidences were a little off does not change that fact.



Like I said, Wharton is the best, but the gap is not as great as you suggest.



Those statistics show a large gap. Perhaps, to you, it is minimal. 32% vs. 23% in favor of Wharton.



42% of Ross graduates work in the Northeast, most of them on Wall Street, so I suggest you look into the facts before making incorrect statements.



Wharton is higher in this area as well. 43% of the Wharton grads go to NY alone. Add the other Northeastern states and the difference is even larger. A collation check would verify this. I’m not going to rapidly pull stats out again, but take it into consideration when you have the time.

Again, like I said, Wharton is better than Ross in every area, whether by a small or large margin. This is what makes a business school much better than its competition. I was only correcting other people on what they saw as ‘small differences’, which is doing Wharton and its history injustice. They are inarguably better. Period.

The comparison is much different than Harvard and Princeton. I see you continuously noting that Ross is only a little worse than Wharton around these forums. Granted, my explanation of the stats were not completely perfect (you don’t expect me to spend the time researching the annals of both schools), but the general jest shows that Wharton is much better. As an admin, I would understand you having a little bias towards our school, but saying we’re only minutely behind Wharton is near propaganda to the future applicants.

Apart from the percentages that you posted, which show a near 10% difference in full-time hiring, also note the industries in which the hiring take place. Wharton is ahead, by far, in the IB and consulting industries. These 2 areas are the hot spots of business, providing their employees with higher compensations than other fields like accounting. Ross competes with Wharton in the 2 Swiss firms and JPM, but Wharton wins, by far, in McKinsey, Bain, and every other company on that list.

Also, you still did not address the other areas of my original post, including the fact that Wharton offers many other programs within the business program, such as joint degree, which Ross does not offer. They also graduate students to private equity and other highly competitive industries that Ross graduates can barely dream of entering. These thing are what make Wharton so unique and distinctive. I don’t understand how you can see these aspects as only ‘small’ differences between these 2 schools. If we were comparing Sloan and Ross, I would agree with you. However, this is Wharton and Ross.