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Top MBAs - Foster School Climbs to #20 in US News
creepycoug
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https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings
Highest ranking I've ever seen, and now with really good company. They've invested a lot in the B-school and it shows. Took a walk around campus a few weeks back and don't even recognize the place.
We all know the giants, in changing order Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Chicago, MIT, Columbia, NYU, etc. The next round includes some that are debatably in the top group .... UCLA, UNC, Virginia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Michigan. Surprised to see Yale in the top ten ... in my day, Yale was a lower top 30 program and not known for its school of management. Shows what $31 billion can buy you when you feel like buying it.
Anyway, Foster is climbing. There are also always MBA programs that aren't as highly ranked but get you there depending on where "there" is. SMU, Northeastern, Boston University, Boston College, Indiana and Emory are some programs that I've been told over the years are strong feeders to Wall Street to a degree that is disproportionate to their respective rankings.
Any thoughts about other programs that punch above their ranking weight? I think the tech companies love Carnegie Mellon. @whlinder , GT is ranked #27.
Highest ranking I've ever seen, and now with really good company. They've invested a lot in the B-school and it shows. Took a walk around campus a few weeks back and don't even recognize the place.
We all know the giants, in changing order Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Chicago, MIT, Columbia, NYU, etc. The next round includes some that are debatably in the top group .... UCLA, UNC, Virginia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Michigan. Surprised to see Yale in the top ten ... in my day, Yale was a lower top 30 program and not known for its school of management. Shows what $31 billion can buy you when you feel like buying it.
Anyway, Foster is climbing. There are also always MBA programs that aren't as highly ranked but get you there depending on where "there" is. SMU, Northeastern, Boston University, Boston College, Indiana and Emory are some programs that I've been told over the years are strong feeders to Wall Street to a degree that is disproportionate to their respective rankings.
Any thoughts about other programs that punch above their ranking weight? I think the tech companies love Carnegie Mellon. @whlinder , GT is ranked #27.
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They've done well, but as I'm sure you'd agree, UW Law is criminally under-ranked. In terms of selectivity, areas of high competence and, now, facilities, it seems clear that it is outranked by lesser schools. I've never been able to figure it. When I was applying, I think they achieved like 23 or 22, right ahead of or behind Boston College. They haven't been close ever since.
I think especially now as healthcare investments are just flying and JHU's ability to connect with their vaunted health care wing, that MBA with the healthcare focus will be yuge.
And you also have to remember how fast schools can rise when they have money and throw it at a program they want to build. JHU has a pretty hefty endowment, and that's with Bloomberg still alive. He's going to Phil Knight JHU when he passes.
Not that TCU and Ft Worth doesn’t have money because they definitely do ... it’s just a different kind of money
And if you don’t understand that, then you don’t know DFW
Tier 1 - Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Booth - if you get in, you have to go, even if nearly every person I've ever met from Booth is fucking weird.
Tier II - Every other school in the top 15 - if you get in, in 95% of situations it makes sense to go
Tier III - Every school in the top 30 - if you get in, crunch the math, but it probably makes sense to go
Tier IV - Everyone else - It could be worth it, but I hope someone else is paying
Foster used to be Tier IV, but is definitely climbing the past 5-10 years.
Honestly I don't see a massive difference between a school like Duke or UVA and a Kellogg. Deeper class, but not meaningfully so. That's the difference between Tier II and III, better opportunities in terms of employers and the depth of quality candidates.
But the MBA is for punching your ticket IMO.
I'll never know what the ROI on undergrad would have been because I took one year off and then went to law school. The ROI on the latter was pretty good. I paid for that (or, more accurately, others paid for it) with pennies on the dollar in today's tuition. So, really, it was amazingly good.