Rankings Report Card

February, 2003

WHILE EDUCATORS POINT out that media rankings don’t measure what’s most important about business education—learning—the standings continue to proliferate. In the 2002 biennial BusinessWeek MBA ranking, based primarily on a poll of students and recruiters, Stanford rose to No. 4—the rank last held in 1994, following Kellogg, Chicago, and Harvard. The rank was an improvement over the School’s No. 11 place in 2000.

Stanford was ranked No. 1 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2002 annual survey—as it has been in the previous four business school rankings by that magazine, which polls academics and recruiters about the best programs, and looks at salary levels upon graduation, among other factors. The Business School tied with Chicago and Columbia for the No. 3 slot in the 2002 Financial Times’ ranking, which surveys alumni about their salaries and career advancement, and factors in the international aspects of programs along with a measure of faculty intellectual firepower.

Meanwhile, Stanford scored No. 39, up from No. 45, in the 2002 Wall Street Journal survey of 1,600 recruiters.

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