Winners & Losers In The 2011 Financial Times MBA Ranking

Interestingly, Darden had one of its best years ever in the 2010 BusinessWeek ranking. The school topped BW’s student satisfaction poll for the very first time and ended up with an 11th place finish.

THE BIG LOSERS IN THE 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES’ GLOBAL MBA RANKING

School Changes in Ranks 2011 2010
Tulane University (Freeman) New Orleans, LA -40* NR 61
Coppead Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -36* NR 65
Michigan State (Broad) East Lansing, MI -36* NR 65
Aston Business School Birmingham, U.K. -28* NR 73
Boston College (Carroll) Chestnut Hill, MA -27 74 47
University of Minnesota (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN -26* NR 75
University of Strathclyde Glasgow, U.K. -23 74 51
Purdue University (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN -20 74 54
Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) Cleveland, OH -21* NR 80
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL -18* NR 83
University of Arizona (Eller) Tucson, AZ -18* NR 83
University of Florida (Hough) Gainesville, FL -17 94 77
Lancaster Management School Lancaster, U.K. -17 41 24
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC -16 62 46
Indiana University (Kelley) Bloomington, IN -16 73 57
Warwick Business School Coventry, U.K. -16 58 42
University of Alberta Alberta, Canada -15* NR 86
University of Bath Bath, U.K. -14* NR 87
University of South Carolina (Moore) Columbia, SC -13 80 67
University of Oxford (Said) Oxford, U.K. -11 27 16
Rotterdam School of Management Rotterdam, The Netherlands -11 36 25
University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA -10 41 31

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SOURCE: The Financial Times
An asterisk indicates that the number is an estimate of the minimum gain or loss in a year because the school was either ranked in 2010 but is no longer on the list or ranks in 2011 but was not in the ranking in 2010.

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