How The World's Top Business Schools Teach Their MBAs

HOW THE WORLD’S BEST BUSINESS SCHOOL TEACH THEIR MBAS

School	Case Study	Lecture	Team Project	Experiential Learning
Harvard Business School	80%	—–	10%	5%
Western Ontario (Ivey)	75%	10%	—-	5%
Virginia (Darden)	74%	—–	6%	10%
IESE Business School	70%	10%	10%	–
UC-Berkeley (Haas)	50%	20%	—-	17%
UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	50%	20%	—–	15%
Dartmouth (Tuck)	45%	23%	20%	—-
Stanford GSB	40%	20%	—-	15%
Pennsylvania (Wharton)	40%	20%	25%	—-
Columbia	40%	38%	15%	—-
Yale	40%	34%	—-	10%
Georgia Tech	40%	25%	25%	—-
IE Business School	40%	20%	20%	—-
Indiana (Kelley)	35%	25%	20%	—-
Texas-Austin (McCombs)	35%	35%	—-	15%
MIT (Sloan)	33%	25%	—-	20%
Duke (Fuqua)	33%	33%	24%	—-
Northwestern (Kellogg)	30%	30%	25%	—-
London Business School	30%	30%	—-	15%
INSEAD	30%	30%	20%	—-
Cornell (Johnson)	30%	30%	20%	—-
UCLA (Anderson)	30%	40%	15%	—-
Vanderbilt (Owen)	30%	40%	—-	30%
SMU (Cox)	30%	25%	25%	—-
ESADE	30%	30%	—–	—-
New York (Stern)	25%	25%	25%	—-
Michigan (Ross)	25%	20%	—-	15%
Notre Dame (Mendoza)	25%	27%	22%	—-
Emory (Goizueta)	25%	30%	—-	20%
Maryland (Smith)	25%	25%	—-	20%
Georgetown (McDonough)	25%	30%	25%	—-
Oxford (Said)	25%	40%	25%	—-
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	20%	50%	10%	—-
USC (Marshall)	20%	48%	25%	—-

Source: Business schools reporting to Bloomberg Businessweek

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