U.S. News just released its 2012 MBA rankings just a few hours ago, and with them, a number of good articles and resources. First we’ll give you the top 20 best U.S. business schools, and then we’ll direct you to some of the meaty articles.
1. Stanford GSB
3. MIT Sloan
9. Columbia
10. NYU Stern
10. Yale SOM
12. Duke Fuqua
13. UVA Darden
14. UCLA Anderson
14. Michigan Ross
16. Cornell Johnson
17. Texas McCombs
18. CMU Tepper
20. Washington Olin
For more information please see:
- “The Sustainable MBA” – This article highlights the ways in which the MBA degree has gone green. Courses that used to focus on finance and profit now focus on those things as well as on how they relate to larger social and environmental issues. A number of programs have sprung up around the country that focus on sustainability. Buzzwords include “impact investing” and “social entrepreneurship.”
- “Reinventing the MBA” – This article is about the goals business educators are working to bring about, mainly “to de-emphasize traditional discipline-based courses like marketing and finance in favor of a focus on leadership skills, innovation, social responsibility, and a global perspective.” Many top schools are introducing new curricula that focus more on leadership development.
- “Business School Ranking Methodology” – Please see this article for details on how the business school rankings were determined.
For a better understanding of why the data behind the rankings is much more valuable than the rankings themselves — a view I have espoused for years — please see “Winners and Losers in the 2011 US News Rankings.”
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