P&Q’s Must Reads: MBA Rankings: Best Business Schools For Careers, Culture & Curriculum 

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: MBA Rankings: Best Business Schools For Careers, Culture & Curriculum

The Princeton Review’s MBA rankings are different from most because it doesn’t try to boil whole programs down to one final score. Instead, it breaks its rankings into 18 different areas ranging from the quality of teaching to admissions standards to discipline-specific programming. In other words, school seekers can choose what matters most to them — and see which programs perform best in those areas.

This package highlights which business schools excel in a host of categories. It also shares results from Princeton Review’s ranking of 134 different online MBA programs. You’ll find the whole package on our homepage.

No. 2: ‘AI IS DEVALUING THE MBA’: Stanford Students Speak Out On Curriculum Lag & Risk To The B-School’s Brand

Stanford Graduate School of Business stands at the center of Silicon Valley, surrounded by the companies and technologies driving the AI revolution. But according to multiple current MBA students who have spoken this summer to Poets&Quants, the school is not keeping pace with the sweeping changes these tools are bringing to business education — and the consequences could be long-lasting.

This is the second in a series of stories detailing criticism from a host of current students. You can find it on our trending tab.

No. 3: 2025’s Most Attractive Employers For MBAs: Finance Surges, Tech Fades

In 2022, when tech was still flying high, business students wanted to work in FAANG – the now out-dated acronym for the five best-performing American tech stocks of the time: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

That year, three of the top five of the Most Attractive Employers in the U.S. were FAANG. But in 2025? Facebook is now Meta. Google is Alphabet. And no FAANG cracked the top three of companies B-school students aspired to work.

In fact, All three of the top employers in 2025’s Most Attractive Employers ranking are bulge-bracket banks.

Find out which ones in this story, up now on our homepage.

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: A Thought Experiment To Transform Your MBA Essays. In this story, uncover how a simple thought experiment can help MBA applicants craft honest, compelling essays by identifying your deeper values and momentum. Find it on our homepage. 

Next: A CBS Insider’s Guide To Acing The Columbia MBA Essays. This article, also up on our homepage, Walks you through each question with a CBS alum and former AdCom turned admissions coach.

Finally: Can You Change A “Ding” Into An “Accept”? In this article, a former HBS AdComm director outlines the 4 pillars that matter. You can find it 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.

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