How MBAs Grade The Top B-Schools

HOW MBAS GRADE THEIR SCHOOLS IN THE ECONOMIST’S 2012 SURVEY

School	MBA Program	Faculty	Culture	Career Center	Facilities
1. Chicago (Booth)	4.8	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7
2. Dartmouth (Tuck)	4.5	4.7	4.8	4.4	4.8
3. Virginia (Darden)	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.3	4.7
4. Harvard	4.6	4.7	4.5	4.2	4.6
5. Columbia	4.2	4.2	4.7	4.4	4.1
6. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	4.4	4.5	4.9	4.5	4.3
7. MIT (Sloan)	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.1	4.4
8. Stanford GSB	4.6	4.6	4.9	4.2	4.6
9. IESE	4.6	4.6	4.5	3.5	4.0
10. IMD	4.4	4.4	4.7	4.2	4.5
11. New York (Stern)	4.5	4.7	4.6	4.2	4.5
12. London	4.4	4.3	4.7	3.9	3.9
13. UPenn (Wharton)	4.2	4.3	4.6	4.1	4.6
14. HEC Paris	4.6	4.5	4.5	3.4	4.1
15. Cornell (Johnson)	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.1	4.6
16. York (Schulich)	4.5	4.3	4.1	3.2	4.4
17. Carnegie (Tepper)	4.6	4.8	4.6	4.4	4.6
18. ESADE	4.2	3.9	4.6	4.1	3.9
19. INSEAD	4.5	4.5	4.6	3.8	4.1
20. Northwestern (Kellogg)	4.3	4.4	4.6	4.1	4.2
21. Emory (Goizueta)	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.1	4.5
22. IE Business	4.6	4.5	4.5	3.6	4.2
23. UCLA (Anderson)	4.4	4.5	4.6	4.2	4.4
24. Michigan (Ross)	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.0	4.5
25. Bath	4.4	4.6	4.4	4.1	4.9

Source: The Economist 2012 student survey

(See the following page for our table of grades on the schools ranked 26th through 50th)

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