Chicago Again Tops Economist 2014 MBA Ranking

The Economist said that data for the new ranking was collected during the spring of 2014. The first survey asked schools to provide such information as the average GMAT scores of students and the number of registered alumni. The student survey accounts for 20% of the weight and is completed by current MBA students and a school’s most recent graduating MBA class. They are asked to rate things such as the quality of the faculty, facilities and career services department. A minimum response rate—equivalent to 25% of the latest intake or 50 students/alumni (whichever is lower)—is required for schools to be included in the ranking. The Economist said 12,946 students or graduates filled the survey out, but did not provide a response rate.

The last of the five most influential rankings of the year will come Nov. 14 when Bloomberg BusinessWeek releases its latest biennial ranking of the top MBA programs. BusinessWeek has been considering some significant changes to its methodology so the new ranking could feature some fairly substantial changes.

The Economist 2014 Top 100 Global MBA Ranking

2014 Rank & School	2013 Rank	Change	Starting Salary	Rise Over Pre-MBA Pay
1. University of Chicago (Booth)	1	—–	$116,302	80%
2. Dartmouth College (Tuck)	2	—–	$115,031	74%
3. University of Virginia (Darden)	4	+1	$111,171	74%
4. HEC Paris	8	+4	$123,982	157%
5. IESE	5	—–	$122,618	124%
6. Harvard Business School	6	—–	$120,700	61%
7. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3	-4	$117,738	53%
8. New York University (Stern)	7	-1	$107,450	63%
9. Stanford GSB	9	—–	$125,592	54%
10. Columbia Business School	10	—–	$116,153	61%
11. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	15	+4	$123,175	25%
12. MIT (Sloan)	12	—–	$119,639	53%
13. UCLA (Anderson)	18	+5	$104,728	69%
14. Northwestern (Kellogg)	23	+9	$119,394	61%
15. London Business School	11	-4	$113,737	48%
16. Queensland	14	-2	$149,318	19%
17. Emory (Goizueta)	19	+2	$104,334	82%
18. INSEAD	26	+8	$115,018	65%
19. Yale School of Management	28	+9	$110,478	79%
20. University of Michigan (Ross)	25	+5	$111,417	83%
21. IMD	13	-8	$121,500	52%
22. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	21	-1	$110,405	110%
23. Cornell University (Johnson)	17	-6	$109,000	67%
24. ESADE	16	-8	$119,177	115%
25. Duke University (Fuqua)	29	+4	$112,751	84%

Source: The Economist 2014 MBA rankings

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