How A Dean Would Rank Business Schools

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Let’s take the application data first. The results are telling, and in many cases, quite surprising. At the very least, you’d imagine that a dean would be suggesting a ranking system that would clearly benefit his own school. Looking at application numbers actually puts Hubbard’s Columbia below rival NYU. For starters, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business wins hands down, receiving 17.9 applications for each available seat. UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is next, with 14.4 candidates for each class seat. Next up is Washington University’s Olin School of Business, getting 12.1 applications for each seat in the class. UCLA’s Anderson School of Management follows, edging MIT Sloan by the slightest of margins, with both schools getting 11.7 applications per seat. New York University’s Stern School is fifth, beating Hubbard’s Columbia Business School, by receiving 11.3 applications per seat against Columbia’s 7.8. Where is Harvard Business School? HBS comes in sixth, with 10.2 applications for each class seat.

Schools Ranked By Applications Per Class Seat

Source: P&Q analysis from publicly available data