MBA rankings aim to compare MBA programs by translating their relative quality into a quantitative measure.

Although different in each case, rankings usually take into account the following factors: Gradutate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and Grade Point Average (GPA) of new entrants; learning resources available at each school...

Rankings should be treated with caution.

Be aware that rankings never represent all factors about schools and that some of these factors may be crucial to your choice. At the same time, considered as supplementary information, rankings may give you some interesting insights...

The Great Ranking Story

Each publication has its own proprietary methodologies that consider certain factors over others, with the result that business schools can be ranked higher in one publication and lower in another. Some publish rankings annually, others every two years. The Financial Times...

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Assessing Graduate Business School Quality

Rankings are an enigma. The idea of ranking graduate business programs is a relatively new process, which began as a means of increasing magazine sales. The ranking of MBA programs is a hot issue in management education circles. Questions regarding how rankings are formulated, what they measure, and what they mean are constantly circulating. Given the attention rankings have received and the controversy they have generated, a full discussion of this topic is necessary.

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