Thursday, June 9, 2011

The World’s Best Business Schools: The Definitive Edition

#1 Harvard University. Harvard scored a 4.44 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating.(Last year's list: #1)
Comments: "HBS is obviously the best (brand, networking unmatched). I'm not sure why anyone goes to B-school unless they go to Harvard." "Harvard has most prestige. Best students. Best contacts. Most schools don't provide enough value in terms of education (learning), contacts, prestige or career opportunities to justify the cost."

#2 Stanford University Stanford scored a 4.37 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating. (Last year's list: #2)
Comments: "Stanford's connection to Silicon Valley puts it over the top. Harvard's prestige is 100/100, perhaps Stanford is 99.5/100 but in the age of the entrepreneur (not the iBanker), Stanford's locale will trump."

3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Wharton scored a 4.25 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating. (Last year's list: #3)
Comments: "Wharton has the best network in the finance arena. Period." "Wharton: great network of alums, breadth of curriculum, not a one size fits all style of teaching (not solely case study-based) nor what courses ALL students must take.

#4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Sloan scored a 4.14 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating. (Last year's list: #4)
Comments: "MIT Sloan is the best for it's network, it's access to world changing technologies just waiting to be commercialized (all labs extremely open to and interested in finding Sloanies to do so), and the skills you learn can not be beat

#5 Columbia University Columbia University scored a 3.97 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating (Last year's list: #6)
Comments: "Columbia is more well-rounded than is typically given credit. Strong focus on entrepreneurship and some good classes in marketing and retail make it a good broad choice... backed-up with killer finance...

Read the rest at:
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-business-schools-2011

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