Chicago (No.1) and Berkeley (No.8)!!

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The paste from BW.


FrancescaBW: And now we'll move to the full-time MBA programs, the moment we've all been waiting for. This won't be as fast.
FrancescaBW: 30 Vanderbilt (Owen)
FrancescaBW: 29 Michigan State (Broad)
FrancescaBW: 28 Rochester (Simon)
FrancescaBW: 27 Washington U. (Olin)
FrancescaBW: 26 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
FrancescaBW: 25 Maryland (Smith)
FrancescaBW: 24 Purdue (Krannert)
FrancescaBW: 23 Emory (Goizueta)
FrancescaBW: 22 Georgetown (McDonough)
FrancescaBW: 21 USC (Marshall)
FrancescaBW: 20 Texas-Austin (McCombs)
FrancescaBW: 19 Yale
FrancescaBW: 18 Indiana (Kelley)
FrancescaBW: 17 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
FrancescaBW: 16 Carnegie Mellon
FrancescaBW: 15 Virginia (Darden)
FrancescaBW: 14 NYU (Stern)
FrancescaBW: 13 Cornell (Johnson)
FrancescaBW: 12 UCLA (Anderson)
FrancescaBW: 11 Dartmouth (Tuck)
FrancescaBW: 10 Columbia
FrancescaBW: Now, for the top schools...
FrancescaBW: 9 Duke (Fuqua)
FrancescaBW: 8 UC-Berkeley (Haas)
FrancescaBW: 7 MIT (Sloan)
FrancescaBW: 6 Stanford
FrancescaBW: And the top five (drum roll please)...
FrancescaBW: 5 Michigan (Ross)
FrancescaBW: 4 Harvard
FrancescaBW: 3 Northwestern (Kellogg)
FrancescaBW: 2 Pennsylvania (Wharton)
FrancescaBW: And the number one B-school for the first time is -- Chicago
FrancescaBW: Congrats to the schools in the top 30 and top 10 on the international list.
FrancescaBW: Now, we can talk to our guests about this year's results.
LouisBW: I'll second that.
FrancescaBW: Louis, are you ready to broadcast responses to some of the questions
LouisBW: Sure...
FrancescaBW: that have already been asked by our audience. If so, please do so now.
mlh97: For the schools that moved the most (up or down the rankings), can you give the primary reasons for the change?
LouisBW: The school that moved up the most in the ranking was the Haas School at UC Berkeley...
GeoffBW: And why was that?
LouisBW: there were multiple reasons. For one thing, recruiters were seriously impressed with the quality of the grads. One told me that they're "very strong entrepreneurial innovative" students...
LouisBW: But it didn't end there. Career Services at Haas made a lot of improvements. They work with recruiters to find them the best grads, and they treat them like royalty when they come to campus.
Antoine: Did you get any insight about the way American BSchools were considered in Europe vs Insead/LBS?
GeoffBW: This is a good question...
FrancescaBW: Great. You can keep broadcasting responses. We have about an hour left.
GeoffBW: A trend that is beginning to show its face is that more students are looking to schools in Europe for an MBA, wherein the past, they were looking to the US...
GeoffBW: The main reason for this is the cultural aspect that so many schools, like INSEAD and IESE, are able to offer...
GeoffBW: At some of these schools, 80 and 90 percent of students come from outside of the school's home country.
GeoffBW: With more and more students looking for a more global degree, it's hard not to look to Europe.
Antoine: What was your biggest surprize while running this review ?
LouisBW: One of the biggest surprises was how well this year's grads fared in the job market. We found that the average salary for our top 30 schools was up more than $8,000 or about 9.7% to $95,000--which doesn't include signing bonuses, etc....
LouisBW: One reason for this was the economy. With applications on the decline for the last few years, there were fewer MBAs to go around. that, combined with a strong economy, forced recruiters to compete with better offers...
LouisBW: In fact, offers were up about 20% this year, to about 2.3 per MBA graduate.
vargas: What major characteristics did the top 20 schools have in common?
GeoffBW: It's hard to lump them all into a category and say THIS is the reason the top schools are the top schools...
blake: How would you compare the Business Week Rankings to those of US News & World Report and the Wall Street Journal?
LouisBW: We're MUCH better! Seriously, they're both fine rankings, for what they are. We just happen to consider our methodology superior.