Media rankings of business schools are an integral part of the business school world. There are only two major full-time MBA rankings – the Financial Times and The Economist – that directly compare schools from around the world. BusinessWeek and Forbes create separate lists for U.S. and the rest of the world, while US News & World only focuses on the U.S. market. There is no ‘best’ business school in the world… but there could be a ‘best’ business school for you. To help you in your research, MBA50.com has compiled the results of the big five MBA rankings of the last 12 months to produce the MBA50.com Premiership. We also look at what the major media MBA rankings measure, and analyze the results from the last year. Each media ranking has its own methodology, so it is important to find out what is being measured, and how that applies to you. We do not believe that media rankings should be the most influential factor when identifying the right school for you – the personality of the institution, course length, location, cost, school strengths, alumni, and other personal aspects are key to finding the right fit. As Bob Bruner, dean of the Darden School asks, “Where can you do your best work?”
Given that only two of the major full-time MBA rankings directly compare business schools from around the world, whether a one-year or two year programme, the authors encourage candidates to use the comparison with caution. Can you really compare apples and oranges?
MBA50.com has compiled the results of the major media MBA rankings of the last twelve months to produce the MBA50.com Premiership. How do the top business schools in Canada perform when you combine these results? Click below to find out the 2012 results for other regions of the world: MBA50.com Premiership 2012 - ...
(This 7-step MBA Admissions series is produced by Fortuna Admissions, a team of former Directors of Admissions from Wharton, INSEAD, Chicago Booth, London Business School, IE and UC Berkeley Haas). While it is tempting to strictly go by the rankings of top business schools in deciding where you would like to ...
The Financial Times has just published its 2012 full-time MBA ranking, starting another year of controversy and mistrust that always accompany such media league tables. The headlines will no doubt belong to the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which takes the #1 spot for the first time since the FT MBA ...
Check out the MBA50.com Premiership results for 2011. How did the top business schools in the U.S. perform when you combined the results from 12 months of media rankings? Methodology Only the U.S. business schools are ranked by all five major media rankings. MBA50.com has calculated their overall performance by looking at each ...
Check out the MBA50.com Premiership results for 2011. How did the top business schools in Europe perform when you combined the results from 12 months of media rankings? Methodology Very few of the European business schools are ranked by four of the major media rankings. BusinessWeek assesses only a limited number of non-U.S. ...
Check out the MBA50.com Premiership results for 2011. How did the top business schools in the Asia Pacific region perform when you combined the results from 12 months of media rankings? Methodology Very few of the Asia Pacific business schools are ranked by four of the major media rankings. BusinessWeek assesses only a ...
Check out the MBA50.com Premiership results for 2011. How did the top business schools in Canada perform when you combined the results from 12 months of media rankings? Methodology Very few of the Canadian business schools are ranked by four of the major media rankings. BusinessWeek assesses only a limited number of non-U.S. ...