P&Q’s Must Reads: Ranking MBAs By Return-On-Investment

Hello everyone  — Welcome back to Poets&Quants’ Must Reads, a quick, digestible recap of the top business school news, sponsored by CentreCourt, P&Q’s virtual admission events.

I’m your host, Kristy Bleizeffer, and I’ll be highlighting the most important P&Q stories you might have missed. So, let’s get to it. 

No. 1: Best Business Schools For Supply Chain MBAs & Specialized Master’s 

Supply chain programs today are about more than trucking, shipping, and the physical side of getting goods around the globe. Digital transformation, sustainability, resilience, blockchain — all are now essential elements of a good program, the kind employers want to hire graduates from.

That’s what the leadership at Marquette University’s College of Business understands. Employers have taken notice, which is a big reason the small, storied Midwestern B-school just saw the best year-to-year improvement in rankings fortune of nearly all of a few dozen top U.S. B-schools. The ranking: Gartner’s biennial list of the top 25 university supply chain graduate and undergraduate programs.

You can find the full ranking, and a peak into Marquette’s secret sauce, in our trending tab.

No. 2: The 100 Best Part-Time MBA Programs

There’s a new winner atop U.S. News’ annual ranking of part-time MBA programs.  University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Even as Booth and UC Berkeley Haas swapped places in the new ranking, the rest of the top five part-time programs remained the same last year, and exactly as they have for seven years now: Northwestern Kellogg School of Management in third, NYU Stern School of Business fourth, and UCLA Anderson School of Management fifth.

See the full ranking and our analysis of it, from our homepage.

No. 3:  Ranking: India’s Best Business Schools Of 2024

This week, the National Institutional Ranking Framework released its ranking of 779 eligible management education programs in India. The ranking features a mix of school-supplied and third-party data, based on five parameters:

• Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR) – 30%
• Research and Professional Practice (RP) – 30%
• Graduation Outcome (GO) – 20%
• Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) – 10%
• Perception (PR) – 10%

So which Indian business school came out on top? Check out our story, now on our homepage, to find out.

No. 4: Our Weekly Round Up of  News You Can Use

No matter where you are in your MBA journey, we bring several helpful stories for you this week.

First up: 3 Reasons To Pursue An MBA In Europe Right Now. Find out why a European B-school should be on your short list in this story, on our homepage.

Next: How To Highlight Growth In Your MBA Application. This article explores vital success factors that will get you noticed. Find it on our homepage. 

Finally: 2024-2025 MBA Application Deadlines. 

This guide has all the relevant dates and deadlines – Rounds 1 and 2, interviews and decisions – for the top business schools in the world. You can find it in our admissions hub.

And, that’s it for this week’s Must Reads recap. 

I also want to alert school seekers to our events tab from our main menu. There, you’ll find all the upcoming admissions events for a range of degrees and programs including full-time and online MBAs, specialized masters, entrepreneurship and more. Registration is free.

Again, I’m Kristy Bleizeffer, and you can join me next week, right here, for a recap of what’s important in the world of business education. Thanks for listening.