Best buiness school 2015

Business school has been called a two-year job interview, and with good reason: For more than $100,000 and two years of study, MBAs hope to gain access to vast alumni networks, top-tier internships, and the very best jobs. Our annual ranking of full-time MBA programs now focuses on what most people hope to get after business school: a satisfying, well-paying job.

This year, we’ve revised the way we rank schools. For the first time, we surveyed MBAs after graduation for more insight into what graduates can expect in their future careers. We detailed some of the standout findings aboutMBA alumni in a separate report—including a broad pay difference between male and female MBAs that starts small, but gets bigger as they continue their careers.

Older elements of our ranking, including a tally of faculty research, have been scrapped because they don’t get at our fundamental question: How well does this business school channel its graduates into good jobs?

You can dig into an exhaustive explanation of our ranking methodology below, which also details how it differs from previous years. Briefly, the Full-Time MBA Rankings are based on five parts:

• Employer Survey (35 percent of total score):  recruiter feedback on the skills they look for in MBAs, and which programs best equip their students with those skills
• Alumni Survey (30 percent):  feedback from the classes of 2007, 2008, and 2009 on how their MBAs have affected their careers, their compensation change over time, and their midcareer job satisfaction
• Student Survey (15 percent):  the class of 2015’s take on academics, career services, campus climate, and more
• Job Placement Rate (10 percent):  the most recent data on how many MBAs seeking full-time jobs get them within three months of graduation
• Starting Salary (10 percent):  most recent data on how much MBAs make in their first jobs after graduation, adjusted for industry and regional variation

With a sharper focus on what people most hope to get after business school, we think we’ve created the most effective ranking yet for helping career-oriented students choose an MBA program.

Full-Time MBA: U.S.

Rank	School	Employer survey rank (35%)	Alumni survey rank (30%)	Student survey rank (15%)	Salary rank (10%)	Job placement rank (10%)	Ranking index score
1	Harvard	4	2	19	2	35	100
2	Chicago (Booth)	1	29	10	6	1	98.47
3	Northwestern (Kellogg)	2	11	6	5	34	98.24
4	MIT (Sloan)	5	15	18	3	16	96.05
5	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	6	14	27	4	7	95.92
6	Columbia	3	19	16	9	25	95.61
7	Stanford	14	1	14	1	21	94.66
8	Duke (Fuqua)	7	7	12	11	51	94.07
9	UC Berkeley (Haas)	11	4	4	7	49	91.83
10	Michigan (Ross)	8	28	5	10	32	91.74
11	Yale	9	9	23	14	37	88.07
12	Virginia (Darden)	10	18	9	13	13	87.8
13	UCLA (Anderson)	19	6	3	16	40	87.28
14	Dartmouth (Tuck)	21	8	17	8	11	85.96
15	Emory (Goizueta)	29	5	13	17	9	82.24
16	Cornell (Johnson)	18	10	35	15	30	82.07
17	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	17	22	11	23	36	81.82
18	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	13	31	25	12	42	80.48
19	Rice (Jones)	40	3	2	30	46	80.31
20	Washington (Foster)	12	34	41	19	5	79.74