The Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools Rankings Overall Score 2019-2020 by Bloomberg Businessweek | Ranking

Description

https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/

The Bloomberg Businessweek 2019—20 Best B-Schools ranking is based on 26,804 survey responses from MBA students, alumni, and recruiters in 2019 about their goals and experiences, as well as compensation and job-placement data from each school. The data we collected and extensive interviews at business schools around the world form the foundation of our coverage.

Methodology

https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/methodology/

The Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking starts with a basic premise: The best judges of MBA programs are graduating students, recent alumni, and companies that recruit MBAs. And we want the best answers. Are schools offering what millennial students need? Are recent graduates able to leverage what they’ve learned and tap into their schools’ networks? What do businesses value most in recruits?

Based on extensive interviews with business school deans, professors, administrators, and analysts, more than 26,804 surveys of MBA students, alumni, and recruiters, as well as employment data provided by schools, we created four indexes: Compensation, Learning, Networking, and Entrepreneurship.

From there, we created a two-step methodology: Step one generates weightings for each index.

Rather than assign the indexes relative weightings ourselves, as most rankings systems do, we took an approach recommended by the business schools we spoke with: Let the stakeholders decide. So, in our surveys, we asked students, alumni, and recruiters what was most important to them. We provide a dozen options, such as “increase my earnings potential,” “build my professional network,” and “learn how to start or develop a business.” Survey takers rank the five most important. Their answers determine the weightings of each of our indexes.

Step two asks a range of survey questions on the business school experience, each mapped to a specific index. We also collect MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA) employment and compensation data from schools. From survey scores and the data, we calculate the overall ranking.

Our overarching goal is to present an interactive ranking that helps potential students make one of the most important personal and professional decisions of their lives.

Ranking List

Name	Rank
Stanford University	1
Dartmouth College	2
Harvard University	3
University of Chicago	4
University of Virginia	5
Pennsylvania School of Business	6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7
University of California: Berkeley	8
Columbia University	9
Northwestern University	10
Cornell University	11
University of California: Los Angeles	12
New York University	13
Yale University	14
Carnegie Mellon University (US)	15
University of Washington	16
University of Michigan	17
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	18
Georgetown University	19
Duke University	20
University of Texas at Austin	21
University of Southern California	22
Emory University	23
Georgia Institute of Technology	24
Indiana University Bloomington	25
University of Maryland: College Park	26
Brigham Young University	27
University of Notre Dame	28
University of Rochester	29
Vanderbilt University	30
Rice University	31
University of Florida	32
Pennsylvania State University	33
College of William and Mary	34
University of Minnesota: Twin Cities	35
University of Texas at Dallas	36
University of Wisconsin-Madison	37
Washington University in St. Louis	38
Michigan State University	39
Texas Christian University	40
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus	41
Southern Methodist University	42
University of California: Davis	43
University of Georgia	44
Howard University	45
University of California: Irvine	46
North Carolina State University	47
Arizona State University	48
Boston College	49
Boston University	50
University of Utah	51
George Washington University	51
Texas A&M University	53
University of Pittsburgh	54
University of Tennessee: Knoxville	55
Babson College	56
Fordham University	57
University of San Diego	58
University of Connecticut	59
University of California: San Diego	60
University of Arizona	61
Rutgers University-New Brunswick	62
Pepperdine University	63
University of Oklahoma	64
Syracuse University	65
Hult International Business School	66
University of Colorado Boulder	67
University of Mississippi	68
Tulane University	69
University of South Carolina: Columbia	70
City University of New York: Baruch College	71
University of Miami	72
Texas Tech University	73
University of Houston	74
Northeastern University	75
SUNY University at Buffalo	76
Case Western Reserve University	77
Purdue University	78
Baylor University	79
University of Missouri: Columbia	80
University of Tampa	81
Willamette University	82
University of Denver	83
Bentley University	84
Auburn University	85
University of Cincinnati	86
University of Kentucky	86
University of Oregon	88
Hofstra University	89
Brandeis University	90
College of Charleston	91
American University	91
Rochester Institute of Technology	93
Florida International University	94