Linkedin’s Goofy B-School Ranking

Finance Professionals

 

Rank	School
1	New York University (Stern)
2	Cornell University (Johnson)
3	Duke University (Fuqua)
4	University of Virginia (Darden)
5	Columbia Business School
6	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
7	Emory University (Goizueta)
8	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
9	Wake Forest School of Business
10	The Wharton School

Source: Linkedin

Investment Banking

 

Rank	School
1	New York University (Stern)
2	Yale University of Management
3	Georgetown University (McDonough)
4	Columbia Business School
5	University of Virginia (Darden)
6	Dartmouth College (Tuck)
7	University of Chicago (Booth)
8	Cornell University (Johnson)
8	The Wharton School
10	Duke University (Fuqua)

Source: Linkedin

Management Consulting

 

Rank	School
1	Harvard Business School
2	MIT (Sloan)
3	Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4	The Wharton School
5	University of Michigan (Ross)
6	Duke University (Fuqua)
7	Dartmouth College (Tuck)
8	Stanford Graduate School of Business
9	Columbia Business School
10	University of Chicago (Booth)

Source: Linkedin

Marketing

 

Rank	School
1	Duke University (Fuqua)
2	University of Michigan (R0ss)
3	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
4	The Wharton School
5	Emory University (Goizueta)
6	University of Virginia (Darden)
7	Northwestern University (Kellogg)
8	University of Chicago (Booth)
9	Cornell University (Johnson)
10	Harvard Business School

Source: Linkedin

Sales

 

Rank	School
1	University of Michigan (Ross)
2	University of Texas (McCombs)
3	Duke University (Fuqua)
4	University of Virginia (Darden)
5	University of California-Berkeley (Haas)
6	The Wharton School
7	Brigham Young University (Marriott)
8	Cornell University (Johnson)
9	Northwestern Universityi (Kellogg)
10	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)

Source: Linkedin

Software Developers at Startups

 

Rank	School
1	Stanford University
2	MIT
3	Carnegie Mellon University
4	University of Southern California
5	Georgia Tech University
6	Cornell University
7	Columbia University
8	John Hopkins University
9	University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
10	University of California-Berkeley

Source: Linkedin

Accounting Professionals

 

Rank	School
1	University of North Carolina
2	University of Texas at Austin
3	University of Wisconsin
4	Notre Dame
5	Texas A&M
6	Vanderbilt University
7	University of Washington
8	Wake Forest University
9	University of Illinois
10	Baylor University

 

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