Thursday, November 26, 2009

Education

Top Schools

No. 1: Stanford University

By Mary Lord
Posted 3/2/97
Page 2 of 4

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 1. Yale University (CT) 2. Harvard University (MA) 2. Stanford University (CA) 4. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) 5. Univ. of California-Los Angeles (Anderson)

PRODUCTION/OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) 2. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 3. Purdue University (Krannert) (IN) 4. Harvard University (MA) 4. Stanford University (CA)

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) 2. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 3. University of Chicago 4. Stanford University (CA) 4. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

REAL ESTATE 1. Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 2. University of California-Berkeley (Haas) 3. University of Wisconsin-Madison 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) 5. Ohio State University (Fisher)

Schools of Business: The top 25

A Overall score

B Reputation rank by academics

C Reputation rank by recruiters

D Student selectivity rank

E Placement success rate

F Average '96 GMAT score

G '96 average undergrad GPA

H '96 acceptance rate

I '96 median starting salary

J Employed 3 mos. after graduation

K '96 out-of-state tuition

Rank/School A B C D E F G H I J K

1 Stanford Univ (CA) 100 1 3 1 1 711 3.60 7.4 $82,000 98.9 $23,100

2 Harvard Univ (MA) 99.5 1 2 2 4 670 *3.50 12.8 $80,000 96.4 $23,840

3 U of Penn (Whrtn) 99.1 1 4 7 2 662 3.41 14.7 $79,000 100.0 $24,956

4 Mass Inst of

Tech (Sloan) 98.7 1 4 9 3 650 3.50 15.1 $78,000 98.8 $23,900

5 Univ of Chicago 98.1 1 8 3 10 680 3.40 25.0 $65,000 98.4 $23,930

6 Northwestern Univ

(Kellogg) (IL) 97.8 1 1 8 11 660 3.40 16.0 $70,000 93.6 $23,025

7 Columbia Univ (NY) 97.5 9 10 6 5 660 3.45 14.8 $83,000 96.2 $23,830

8 Dartmouth Coll

(Tuck) (NH) 97.1 2 11 4 6 670 3.40 12.6 $70,000 98.3 $23,700

9 Duke U (Fuqua) (NC) 96.5 9 7 13 8 646 3.33 20.5 $67,509 98.5 $24,380

10 Univ of Calif-

Berkeley (Haas) 96.0 7 12 11 12 652 3.42 13.3 $70,000 93.7 $18,788

11 Univ of VA (Darden) 95.1 2 9 15 9 660 3.10 18.9 $66,000 98.1 $19,627

12 U of Mich-Ann Arbor 95.5 7 6 16 14 645 3.30 28.0 $65,000 99.1 $23,178

13 New York U (Stern) 94.1 6 19 14 7 646 3.30 20.9 $70,580 97.0 $23,554

14 Carnegie Mel U (PA) 93.1 2 18 22 13 640 3.20 30.8 $67,209 96.6 $22,200

15 Yale Univ (CT) 93.1 8 17 5 22 675 3.39 23.5 $65,000 91.5 $23,220

16 U of N.C.-Chapel

Hill (Kenan-Flagler)93.1 6 16 19 16 630 3.30 19.8 $60,000 96.8 $14,333

17 Univ of CA-

Los Angeles (CA) 91.8 9 13 10 38 651 3.50 17.5 $65,000 82.2 $19,431

18 U of Texas-Austin 91.1 8 13 21 24 630 3.29 27.3 $60,000 97.3 $11,614

19 Indiana U-Blmngtn 91 1 8 20 33 17 630 3.20 44.7 $61,509 95.2 $15,613

20 Cornell Univ

(Johnson) (NY) 90.1 2 15 18 36 637 3.30 25.4 $64,000 85.1 $23,151

20 Univ of Rochester

(Simon) (NY) 90.1 8 29 26 20 630 3.25 36.0 $58,509 97.4 $21,420

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