Columbia Business School
Columbia Business School is ranked fifth among the best U.S. B-schools by Poets&Quants.
5. Columbia University
Columbia Business School
3022 Broadway
Uris Hall, Room 216
New York, NY 10027
Admissions: 212-854-5553
Email: apply@gsb.columbia.edu
Website: http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/mba
Apply Online: http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/mba/learnmore/applynow
Admission Deadlines for Class of 2014:
Rolling Admissions
Round One: 10/5/11
Round Two: 4/7/12
In the provocative documentary Inside Job, which chronicles the origins of the global financial crisis of 2008, Columbia Business School endures a nasty beating due to its close and cozy alignment with Wall Street. Dean Glenn Hubbard, who had been chief economic adviser during the Bush administration, and finance professor Frederic Mishkin, a member of Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2008, both nearly make fools of themselves. No matter. If you’re headed into financial services, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more direct route than Columbia which probably has more alums on Wall Street than any other business school in the world (Wharton and NYU also are good bets but even they don’t exactly rival Columbia).
The school’s revised core curriculum, unveiled in fall 2008, provides students with tools for success applicable across industries and functions, giving them the tools they need to address the questions facing business leaders today. The core curriculum represents about 40 percent of the degree requirement — two full courses and 12 half-term courses. A specific feature of the new core is the introduction of a “flexible core.” In the second half of the second term, students select their core classes from three pre-specified menus (Organizations, Performance, and Markets), choosing a single course from each area. The redesigned core curriculum combines the content necessary for solid business management with a flexibility that allows students to choose core classes that best enhance their skills and experience.
