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[shomalik]

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Originally posted by lavelle

Hercules, you really need to do some research. I’m the editor who is responsible for b-school rankings at BusinessWeek. The last time we ranked full time MBA programs in 2004, we had more than 10,000 replies to our student survey. Since our methodology also incorporates two previous student surveys (3 in all) our ranking that year was based on nearly 32,000 replies going back to 2000–hardly “a few students…at one moment in time.” I’ll also point out that the student survey counts for only 45% of the final ranking. Another 45% comes from a recruiter survey, and the remaining 10% is from our intellectual capital rating–an analysis of every article published by every faculty member at every school in about 20 academic journals. All this information, by the way, is readily available in the magazine and online.

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Originally posted by hercules

Business Week: Base their rankings too much off what a few students think at one moment of time. Ranked Stanford #11 a few years ago. At least they are profitable at making the rankings look important and shifting the schools all around every two years. Thier book is a best seller.

WSJ: Pathetic. They don’t even understand their own rankings and never ran a sanity check on them. Look at how low Stanford is ranked. They probably don’t make money off the rankings and just make the rest of their organization look stupid.

US News: They act as if they have quantified the process and made it scientific. The writers did not do well/ would not do well on the GMAT with this flawed logic.

Financial Times: I’m not interested in European schools. No comment. Anyone else?

Business 2.0: Johnny come lately. Their rankings and explanations add nothing but confusion to what is already avaivailable. They appear to have a 100 year plan to become good and popular.

Jungle: See Business 2.0

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Louis Lavelle
Associate Editor
BusinessWeek

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Hi Louis, when will you guys join the 21st century and provide rankings for the Asian MBAs?

[shomalik]

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Originally posted by sabir

Hosftra is better,

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Originally posted by tuscani82

Dear Sirs,

I would be grateful if you could advise me on the following b-school rankings. Which MBA program do you consider as more promising for a finance profession, Hoftstra’s(NY) or Suffolk’s (Boston)?

Thank you for your attention,
Steve

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Hofstra definitely because its so close to Wall Street and has big alumni community there as well.

Also Hofstra has the biggest academic trading room in the world..

http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/Zarb/zarb_vid_greenbergtraderoom.html

They attend trading contests around the world, and anyone who does well there can count on great placements on Wall street.

[shomalik]

Also, if you are worried about perception outside of Asia, perhaps you should consider this 12 month joint program NYU-Stern/HK UST, you get a dilpoma with both school names.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/899cf3e0-ce4f-11db-b5c8-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=02e16f4a-46f9-11da-b8e5-00000e2511c8,_i_rssPage=02e16f4a-46f9-11da-b8e5-00000e2511c8.html

[shomalik]

It think it does pretty well since it is so highly ranked by Financial Times.

this article shows Hong Kong UST as top 5 in many categories, including #1 in “Top Salaries” which is by many considered to be the most important.

http://www.ft.com/cms/d02761a0-6041-11db-a716-0000779e2340.html

Also executive MBA is ranked #2 in the world behind only Wharton.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/07/28/execed.Skoll/

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