The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings

The University of Texas at Dallas has created a database to track publications in 24 leading business journals. The database contains titles and author affiliations of papers published in these journals since 1990. The information in the database is used to provide the rankings based on:
* Total contributions of their faculty.

Additionally one can also search the database by:
* Any journal or combination … [ Read more ]

The Brouhaha Over Rankings

One is a popularity contest. Another is a number cruncher’s dream. As business school rankings proliferate, readers wonder: What do they actually measure?
And whom do they serve?

Behind the Rankings

Despite a slump in student satisfaction, executive programs generally remain a good investment, say BW’s Louis Lavelle and Geoff Gloeckler

The Business School Rankings Dilemma

Concerned by the proliferation of media rankings and their potential for negative impact, The Committee on Issues in Management Education appointed a task force to explore the effects on business schools as well as AACSB International’s role in defining quality in MBA programs and assisting prospective students to decide among program alternatives. This report articulates the task force findings and offers several recommendations.

What Price Rankings?

Many business schools are upping the ante to compete in the rankings game. Ultimately, the costs to the learning environment may simply be too high.

Wharton and Harvard Are Missing

The two B-schools declined to provide data for The Economist’s rankings — so they were dropped. Will other schools follow?

Forbes Best Business Schools ROI Ranking

The Forbes biennial ranking of business schools ranks schools based on return on investment–meaning compensation five years after graduation minus tuition and the forgone salary during school.

A Rank Offense to B-Schools?

Three professors say efforts to score higher ratings on magazine lists — like BusinessWeek’s — promote educational mediocrity and short-change students.

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges

“Can entrepreneurship be taught? You bet! And our Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities for 2004 will show you the best places to begin your studies. With the top 50 national programs, the top 50 regional programs, 61 entrepreneurship emphasis programs and 118 limited curriculum programs, you’ll find all the information you need to embark on an entrepreneurial education.”

Wharton on the Rankings: “We Can’t Have It Both Ways”

“In April, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania informed students, faculty, staff, and members of its alumni leadership that it would cease distribution of its student and alumni e-mail lists to commercial enterprises, including the upcoming Business Week survey of MBA students. To date, we’re aware of one other institution that has made the same decision – Harvard Business School…”

Asiaweek – Asia’s Best MBA Schools

Can get a breakdown of programs by: Reputation, School (alphabetical), Country, Full-Time Programs, Part-Time Programs, Executive Programs, Distance Programs, and Salaries

Business Research in Eight Business Disciplines (.pdf)

This study recorded nearly 1.5 million citations to measure research productivity of the 4,918 full time faculty members with doctoral degrees at 51 leading US business schools. These schools had been included at least once in the 25 most recent ranking lists produced by three major business publications. This research included lifetime citation counts for each faculty member, and resulted in 1,497,162 citations that were … [ Read more ]

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

You bet it can–and in our 1st Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities, we reveal which U.S. schools do it best.

Business School Research Rankings

This page is intended to supplement a study of U.S. business school research performance published in the Academy of Management Journal.

Ranking the rankers

Tim Dickson, EBF executive Editor has written an acerbic critique on business school rankings.

The Best M.B.A. For The Buck

Is a business school degree worth the considerable investment of your time and money? Forbes’ rankings show which schools–elite, regional and international–offer the best return on your investment.

10 Business Schools That Get It

The Standard rates the country’s top business schools based on high-tech savvy. The losers? Chicago, Columbia and Kellogg.

The Top Business Schools – Career Journal

Career Journal of the _Wall Street Journal_ presents the results of its two-year long survey of corporate recruiters’ ratings of MBA programs from around the world. According to their survey, three smaller B-schools, Dartmouth’s Tuck School, Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and Yale University’s School of Management, were rated the top three, displacing the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Harvard. In a … [ Read more ]