Recruiter Rankings: U.S. News vs. BW by: Jeff Schmitt on December 11, 2014 | | 39,917 Views December 11, 2014 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit In addition, neither methodology specified exactly what to evaluate. As a result, recruiters could use different criteria to measure programs based on their personal preferences. In other words, each ranking could be tainted by subjective opinions and inconsistent standards. Thatās particularly damning with Bloomberg Businessweek, where a small response rate accounted for nearly half of a schoolās ranking. Before 2014, recruiters responding to Bloomberg Businessweek would simply rank 20 schools from first to worst (with 50 percent of the weight coming from the current year and 25 percent each from two and four years ago). In overhauling their methodology, they adopted one of U.S. Newsā fatal flaws: Including multiple responses from the same employer. Bloomberg Businessweek argues that this change reflects the āless centralizedā nature of MBA recruiting. But it also concentrates more influence in fewer organizations. That said, Bloomberg Businessweek did remove scores where alumni evaluated their own schools, a difference from U.S. News. To see how your favorite schools fare, check out our tables featured past and present recruiter rankings from Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News. Recruiter Rankings & How They Compare (1-25) Institution U.S. News 2015 Overall Rank Bloomberg Business-week 2014 Overall Rank 2015 U.S. News Recruiter Assess-ment Rank 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek Employer Survey Rank 2014Ā U.S. News Recruiter Assessment Rank 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek Employer Survey Rank Penn (Wharton) 1 2 1 1 1 2 Duke (Fuqua) 14 1 10 2 10 7 Chicago (Booth) 4 3 5 3 4 1 Stanford 1 4 1 4 1 5 Northwestern (Kellogg) 6 7 5 5 4 4 Columbia 8 5 7 6 7 8 Harvard 1 8 1 7 3 3 Yale 13 6 7 8 8 27 Carnegie Melon (Tepper) 18 10 20 9 20 17 Michigan (Ross) 11 9 12 10 12 6 Virginia (Darden) 11 20 12 11 12 9 MIT (Sloan) 5 14 4 12 4 10 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 19 12 20 13 16 14 Dartmouth (Tuck) 9 15 12 14 10 11 NYU (Stern) 10 22 12 15 12 16 UCLA 16 11 18 16 16 19 Emory (Goizueta) 20 18 24 17 22 23 Indiana (Kelley) 21 16 18 18 10 20 Buffalo SUNY 74 39 22 19 25 45 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 15 23 10 20 16 15 Cincinnati (Lindner) 60 47 31 21 59 NA Cornell (Johnson) 17 13 12 22 12 12 California-Irvine (Merage) 45 31 41 23 97 50 Vanderbilt (Owen) 25 30 31 24 29 31 Wake Forest 58 46 41 25 50 40 Sources: Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News and World Report Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 3 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Questions about this article? Email us or leave a comment below. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.