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
26. Yale	4.5	4.7	4.7	3.7	4.2
27. Queensland	3.8	4.4	4.3	3.9	4.5
28. Texas (McCombs)	4.3	4.5	4.6	4.1	4.4
29. Duke (Fuqua)	4.3	4.5	4.5	3.7	4.5
30. City (Cass)	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.1	4.6
31. Hult	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.0	3.9
32. Vanderbilt (Owen)	4.4	4.6	4.6	4.1	4.5
33. Ohio State (Fisher)	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.2	4.6
34. Washington (Foster)	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.1	4.5
35. Georgetown	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.0	4.4
36. Mannheim	4.4	4.5	4.4	3.7	4.5
37. Cranfield	4.4	4.5	4.5	3.8	4.8
38. Melbourne	4.0	4.3	4.3	2.8	3.8
39. Rice (Jones)	4.4	4.6	4.3	4.1	4.6
40. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	4.5	4.6	4.5	4.0	4.4
41. Hong Kong	4.3	4.2	4.3	4.1	4.6
42. Henley	4.5	4.5	4.6	3.5	4.2
43. USC (Marshall)	4.1	4.1	4.3	3.5	4.1
44. Indiana (Kelley)	4.6	4.7	4.5	4.2	4.6
45. Cambridge (Judge)	4.3	4.1	4.5	3.5	4.1
46. Curtin	4.4	4.3	4.1	3.6	4.3
47. Washington (Olin)	4.5	4.7	4.3	3.8	4.6
48. Oxford (Said)	4.4	4.4	4.6	3.7	4.3
49.Notre Dame (Mendoza)	4.4	4.6	4.5	3.9	4.5
50. Wake Forest (Babcock)	4.3	4.5	4.5	4.0	4.4

Source: The Economist 2012 student survey

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